P4 lets networks finally break free of rigid hardware, adding custom protocols, real-time visibility and smarter security without waiting on vendors. Network engineers have spent decades working ...
The dawn of software defined networking (SDN) ushered in an era of disaggregation of the networking control plane from the data plane; management of the network was no longer bound to the networking ...
Two pioneers of SDN — Jennifer Rexford and Nick McKeown — have officially launched a consortium around P4, a language that allows for programming the data plane. If successful, P4 could widen the ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Since 2011 the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has served as the caretaker of the OpenFlow standard and as a champion of software-defined networking (SDN). In the past year, ...