Recent P4 Posts

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 st...

Editor Note: In this interview, Frédéric Loui discusses how P4 is being used in the GÉANT RARE Project. Introduction The Router for Academia, Research and Education (RARE) project aims to create a ...

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 ...

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 P...

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 CoNEXT’...

Posted by Antonin Bas on July 13, 2020 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....

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 a...

Posted by Tomasz Osiński on June 1, 2020 Introduction As the ecosystem around P4 continues to develop, more and more programmable targets are emerging. The P4 compiler has already support for the nex...

The virtual P4 Expert Roundtable Series took place April 28-29th and was kicked off with four engaging live keynote presentations with vibrant Q&As from the audience. The recordings of the keynot...

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 ...

Posted by Mario Baldi on February 24, 2020 Pensando Systems recently introduced a Distributed Services Card (DSC) based on a custom, fully-programmable processor optimized to execute P4 programs. The ...

Posted by Mihai Budiu and Nate Foster on October 30, 2019 On behalf of the entire P4 Language Design Working Group, we are pleased to announce version 1.2.0 of the P416Language Specification. The offi...