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) and the public network. Along […]
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 Nick McKeown laying out his […]
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By Vladimir Gurevich, Intel Principal Engineer What do finite state machines have in common with fast trigonometric calculations? How about load balancing and linear error correction codes? Or is it true that the famous Chinese Remainder Theorem can make networks run faster and more predictably? What is the best way to define a new protocol […]
By Sunil Ahluwalia, Intel Data flows in a modern data center are constantly changing and evolving as new workloads are added and others are moved to different servers when they need more compute, memory or storage. This constant change increases the need for intelligence, performance, visibility and control of the data center network fabric. P4-programmable […]
We are delighted to announce the results of the recent 2021 P4 Elections. JK Lee (Intel), Noa Zilberman (Oxford University), and Steffen Smolka (Google) have been elected to 2-year terms on the P4 Technical Steering Team (TST). We also would like to extend a warm thank you to outgoing TST members Nate Foster, Amin Vahdat, […]
