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2024: A Year of P4 Milestones and Innovations

Feb 24, 2025 | deniseb

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

Jan 15, 2025 | deniseb

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

Jan 13, 2025 | deniseb

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)

Dec 2, 2024 | deniseb

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…

2024 EuroP4 Wrap-Up

Nov 13, 2024 | deniseb

Contributed by Sándor Laki (Assistant Professor, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)  The annual EuroP4 is the official European workshop of the P4 Language Consortium. It aims to bring together programmable network researchers from Europe and around the world to discuss innovations and ideas as well as foster the growth…