The Japan P4 Users Association is hosting this virtual event annual event in Japan. Japanese integrators, carriers, service providers, researchers, and individuals will join the event to exchange information. The language for this event is Japanese. Check out the event web page to view videos and slides from this event. Sponsors APRESIA Systems Intel […]
This P4 blog was contributed by Sunil Ahluwalia, Sr. Director, Product Management, Intel The launch of P4-programmable Ethernet switch ASICs revolutionized data center, telecommunications and enterprise networking. Now, P4-based switching is getting better with the opening of the Intel® Tofino™ Native Architecture (TNA) to the developer community. This blog post marks a big milestone in […]
The Aether platform brings together multiple ONF projects to create a solution for private 4G/5G mobile connectivity. The User Plane Function (UPF) is a fundamental piece of the mobile core network architecture. It is a specialized router that handles all user-generated traffic to and from the radio base stations. In this post, we focus on […]
The annual 2021 P4 Workshop took place May 17 – 20, 2021, and attracted over 1300 attendees over the three days of live keynotes! The keynote sessions were recorded and are now available on-demand, along with 25 topic-specific technical talks, demos and tutorials. You can view all of the on-demand videos and slides here. Key […]
This year two new awards were introduced at the P4 Workshop to encourage creative and disruptive use cases for P4. Awardees were determined based on a combination of community vote and program committee selection. Congratulations to this year’s winners who will each receive $500! Most Novel Application of P4 in a Networking Use Case “The […]
This blog was previously published in the SIDN Labs blog on May 25, 2021. As part of the 2STiC programme, we’ve been evaluating and experimenting with future internet architectures at SIDN Labs. One of the architectures that we are looking at is SCION. SCION stands for Scalability, Control and Isolation on Next-Generation Networks, and is […]
The 2021 P4 Workshop was an exciting and informative virtual event that incorporated insights and perspectives from P4 community members around the world, with focused segments…
Introduction The Flightplan project envisages the next generation of dataplane programming tools. It introduces the Dataplane Disaggregation problem—splitting up dataplane programs into program pieces that are mapped to run on different, possibly heterogeneous, network-connected hardware. The choice of splits and hardware is done to optimize network and application objectives beyond what could be achieved than if the original, monolithic […]
Welcome to the 2021 P4 Workshop! The 2021 P4 Workshop is an exciting and informative virtual event. It is intended to incorporate insights and perspectives from the P4 community from around the world, and will include focused segments on: P4 language P4 targets P4 use cases SDN use cases P4 target tutorials This event is […]
EuroP4 2020 is the third P4 Language Consortium event in Europe. It aims to bring together P4 and P4->NetFPGA researchers from Europe and from around the world, and to foster the growth of the P4 Community.
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 full featured router running on open, commodity networking hardware. RARE is being developed under the auspices of GÉANT, which is Europe’s leading collaboration on […]
