Jun 14, 2022
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), Cloud Load Balancer (CLB) etc. EIP is the gateway between Tencent’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)…
Jun 8, 2022
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 and view it as the next stage in the evolution of software-defined networking. I recall…
Mar 28, 2022
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 Open Networking Foundation’s P4 community. Han has been involved in the P4 community since 2015.…
Jan 18, 2022
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 a multi-year record of fundamental contributions to Congestion Control, Telemetry, Transports, NIC design, and Host…
Dec 9, 2021
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 development opportunities going forward. ONF and the SD-Fabric community have opportunities to gradually expand the…
