Pensando Announces P4-programmable Platform and Joins P4 Community
Pensando Systems recently introduced a Distributed Services Card (DSC) based on a custom, fully-programmable processor optimized to execute P4 programs. The DSC is the centerpiece of a Distributed...
View ArticleNetwork Prototyping Made Easy with P4 and Python
Editor Note: This post was originally written by Tomasz Osiński for his personal blog. We are re-publishing it here (with permission) as it gives a nice introduction to how P4 and Python can be used as...
View Articlep4c-ubpf: a New Back-end for the P4 Compiler
IntroductionAs the ecosystem around P4 continues to develop, more and more programmable targets are emerging. The P4 compiler has already support for the next-generation Linux datapath such as...
View ArticleP4 and After
Editor Note: This post was originally written by Suresh Krishnan for Kaloom’s website. We are re-publishing it here (with permission) as it nicely outlines how Kaloom is using P4 in their security and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the P4Runtime v1.2 release
We are excited to announce the release of P4Runtime v1.2.0. We have come a long way since the creation of the P4 API Working Group in 2017 and the P4Runtime 1.0.0 release in 2019! Congrats to everyone...
View ArticleConQuest: flow-level queue analysis in P4
Editor’s note: This guest post by Xiaoqi Chen (Princeton University) describes a queue analytics data structure implemented using P4. It is based on a paper originally published at ACM...
View ArticleP4 TST Elections
Please join me in congratulating the newly elected members of the P4 TST for 2020 - 2021: Andy Fingerhut, Stefan Heule and Robert Soule!All three have been involved with technical work on P4 for...
View ArticleBrebner Appointed as P4 Architecture Working Group Co-Chair
I’m delighted to announce that Gordon Brebner (Xilinx) has agreed to lead the P4 Architecture Working Group, joining Andy Fingerhut (Intel) as co-chair. Working group co-chairs are appointed by the P4...
View ArticleHow P4 Benefits the Router for Academia, Research, and Education (RARE) Project
Editor Note: In this interview, Frédéric Loui discusses how P4 is being used in the GÉANT RARE Project.IntroductionThe Router for Academia, Research and Education (RARE) project aims to create a full...
View ArticleThe Need for Standardization in a Thriving Network Ecosystem
Editor Note: This post was originally written by Mario Baldi and Vipin Jain for Pensando’s website. With permission, we are re-publishing it here, as they nicely articulate the need for SmartNIC...
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