Posted by P4.org on September 29, 2016 ACM SIGCOMM is widely recognized as one of the best conferences -- if not the best conference -- in the field of computer networking. Many seminal papers were

Posted by P4.org on July 13, 2015 Open vSwitch (“OVS”) is a virtual switch that is commonly used with Linux-based hypervisors such as KVM and Xen, although it supports other environments too su

Posted by P4.org on July 26, 2016 Open-NFP is pleased to announce the Open-NFP P4 Summer Webinar Series. The webinars are on topics in data plane acceleration research, including various P4 applica

by Nick McKeown & Jen Rexford A few people have asked us what the difference is between P4 and OpenFlow. Is P4 just another version of OpenFlow? In this blog we'll explain why P4 addresses a m

Posted by P4.org on December 14, 2015 P4.org would like to welcome its newest member companies: Centec Networks, Comcast, Freescale, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, and SK Telecom. This brin

by Chang Kim, Vladimir Gurevich, Antonin Bas, Bapi Vinnakota & Sujal Das.   Immediately following the 2nd P4 Workshop on November 18 there were two hands-on P4 events: a P4 Boot Camp for

Following the strong turnout for the 1st P4 Workshop in June, we held the 2nd P4 Workshop on November 18 at Stanford University. Like last time, the workshop was heavily oversubscribed again: All 2

By Huynh Tu Dang, Marco Canini, Fernando Pedone, and Robert Soulé. Paxos is one of the most widely used protocols for solving consensus, the problem of getting a group of participants to reliably

Posted by P4.org on September 25, 2015 Quicklinks : INT Specification - INT GitHub repository - INT demo video Compute virtualization and the widespread deployment of virtual machines has led to

Posted by P4.org on September 1, 2015 Updated: link to the github repo : contains files and setup from the August 2015 SIGCOMM tutorial The P4 language had a busy week! From the 15-21st of Augus

Posted by P4.org on September 1, 2015 It's been a year since the P4 language was first proposed in an ACM CCR article. In the past year, the language has evolved from a proposal into a specificatio

Posted by P4.org on September 1, 2015 To start fostering community around P4, we organized a small by-invitation workshop with people from industry and academia who we knew were actively working o