May 8, 2025
Announcing P4 Projects Selected for 2025 GSoC
For the second year in a row, the P4 Project is taking part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025. We’re excited to share the projects hosted by the P4 Language Organization and would like to thank all the community members who volunteered as mentors. We’re also pleased to welcome…
Apr 14, 2025
Cisco Joins the P4 Consortium as a Premier Member in 2025
We are excited to announce that Cisco joined the P4 Consortium as a premier member in 2025! This partnership underscores Cisco’s ongoing commitment to driving innovation in networking and paving the way for greater advances in programmable networking technology. Since the introduction of Cisco’s Silicon One ASIC in 2019, Cisco…
Feb 28, 2025
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…
Feb 24, 2025
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…
Jan 15, 2025
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…
