P4 Language Consortium to Participate in Google Summer of Code 2025
The P4 Language Consortium has been accepted into Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 for the second consecutive year! GSoC is a global initiative, financed by Google, that gives students the opportunity to dive into the open-source philosophy by contributing to projects in collaboration with their maintainers. The nine GSoC project…
2024: A Year of P4 Milestones and Innovations
The demands on networking technologies have never been higher and evolving to keep up with demand has never been more important. The P4 community has strong support and continues to lead the charge in open-source programmable networking, with a focus on enhancing and simplifying data plane programmability. This year was…
Intel’s Tofino P4 Software is Now Open Source
Contributed by Deb Chatterjee, Intel We are excited to usher in the dawn of a new era for the P4 programming language. For many years, the Tofino family of programmable Ethernet switches, powered by P4, has represented the cutting edge of network innovation. Tofino’s unprecedented levels of programmability have enabled…
2025 P4 TST Election Results
We are pleased to share the results of the recent 2025 P4 Technical Steering Team (TST) elections. Andy Fingerhut (Cisco) and Fabian Ruffy (New York University) have each been elected to a second two-year term. P4 community momentum continued to accelerate last year with working groups making significant strides. There…
P4 Drives the Innovation and Practical Application of Global Scheduling Ethernet（GSE）
Contributed by P4 Member, China Mobile As a leading telecom operator in China, China Mobile has been an active participant and supporter of the open source P4 project since its integration into the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) in 2018 and has remained after P4 moved under the Linux Foundation organization…
