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P4 Novel Use Award Winners!

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Novel Applications of P4 Awards, Fabricio Rodriguez, Pratap Pellakuru and Sharmila S.! The awards are offered to encourage creative and disruptive use cases for P4 and all the...

Community Member Profile: Mihai Budiu

In this community member profile, we would like to introduce Mihai Budiu, a researcher at VMware Research who is based in Palo Alto, California. He is an active contributor in the Open Networking Foundation’s P4...

Tencent Implements Gateway Functionality in P4 Switching Appliance

Author: Junwei Zhang, Tencent Cloud Architecture and Platform Department Background and Introduction Tencent Gateway (TGW) is the first access point for Internet traffic going over the Tencent network, which consolidates multiple applications: elastic IP (EIP),...

P4 Workshop Showcases Expansion of Programmable Infrastructure

Recently I was honored to serve as General Chair for the Annual P4 Workshop, an entirely on-line event hosted by the Open Networking Foundation. I’ve been following P4 (Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors) for many years...

Community Member Profile: Han Wang

In this community member profile, we would like to introduce Han Wang, a Staff Engineer at Intel Corporation’s Switch and Fabric Group, based in San Jose, California, USA. He is an active contributor in the...

ONF, in Collaboration with Microsoft, Google and Intel, Brings SDN to SONiC™

PINS Project Extends Leading Open Source Network OS with P4 Programmability MENLO PARK, Calif. FEB 17, 2022 - The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) today announced the upstream contribution of its collaboratively developed P4 Integrated Network...

Community Member Profile: Nandita Dukkipati

In this community member profile, we would like to introduce Nandita Dukkipati, a Principal Software Engineer at Google Inc., based in Palo Alto, California, USA. Nandita is a researcher and practitioner in the Industry with...

SD-Fabric: An End-to-End Programmable Data Plane – What’s Next (Part 2)

This is the second part of a two part blog about one of ONF's newest projects in software defined networking: SD-Fabric. The first blog covers the background and accomplishments to date; this blog outlines exciting...

SD-Fabric: An End-to-End Programmable Data Plane – A Year in Review (Part 1)

This is part one of a two part blog about one of ONF’s newest projects in software defined networking: SD-Fabric. The first blog is focused on background and the significant accomplishments to date; the second...

New Network Equipment Grant Program from Intel Reduces Cost of University Networking Research

Networking research is often an expensive, resource-intensive undertaking, especially when the researchers need to prove that their solution is both viable and effective in solving problems facing modern networks that operate at terabits and petabits...