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Announcing 2021 P4 Workshop Novel Use Award Winners

Jun 7, 2021 | P4 Admin

This year two new awards were introduced at the P4 Workshop to encourage creative and disruptive use cases for P4. Awardees were determined based on a combination of community vote and program committee selection. Congratulations to this year’s winners who will each receive $500! Most Novel Application of P4 in…

PINS Is Next Step in Software Revolution of Data Center Networking

May 26, 2021 | P4 Admin

Contributed by Reshma Sudarshan, Director Applications Engineering, Intel At the 2021 P4 Workshop, engineering leaders from Google and Intel presented on a new standards-based way to extend software defined networking (SDN) into a P4-programmable device. This is big news because one of the significant advantages of P4 is the ability…

Future Internet at Terabit Speeds: SCION in P4

May 25, 2021 | P4 Admin

This blog was previously published in the SIDN Labs blog on May 25, 2021. As part of the 2STiC programme, we’ve been evaluating and experimenting with future internet architectures at SIDN Labs. One of the architectures that we are looking at is SCION. SCION stands for Scalability, Control and Isolation…

Flightplan: Dataplane Disaggregation and Placement for P4 Programs

Apr 10, 2021 | P4 Admin

Introduction The Flightplan project envisages the next generation of dataplane programming tools. It introduces the Dataplane Disaggregation problem—splitting up dataplane programs into program pieces that are mapped to run on different, possibly heterogeneous, network-connected hardware. The choice of splits and hardware is done to optimize network and application objectives beyond what could be achieved…

Stratum 21.03 Released

Apr 7, 2021 | P4 Admin

ONF is pleased to announce the release of Stratum: 2021-03-31 (or 21.03 for short). This release contains many bug fixes and new features for Stratum running on Intel® Tofino™, including support for meter entries, remote bfshell for debugging, basic port shaping configuration, and P4Runtime read improvements. The Stratum Tofino simulator…