More from the P4 Community

“AT&T was an early supporter of P4, having been one of the first to use P4 to specify the behavior we want in our networks and using P4’s programmable forwarding plane devices in our network,” said Andre Fuetsch, Chief Technology Officer and President, AT&T Labs. “As one of the operator members at ONF, and as a member of P4.org., we look forward to using and contributing to the synergies created by P4.org joining ONF and Linux Foundation.”

“Barefoot is passionate about bringing the power of software to the forwarding plane of the network and P4 has enabled this new paradigm to be possible,” said Craig Barratt, CEO of Barefoot Networks. “P4.org becoming a part of ONF and LF is welcome news to us as this will bolster the P4 community to scale and accelerate to even broader adoption of P4 as the programming language for networking.”

Our whole networking industry stands to benefit from a language like P4 that unambiguously specifies forwarding behavior, with dividends paid in software developer productivity, hardware interoperability, and furthering of open systems and customer choice,” said Tom Edsall, SVP and CTO, Data Center Networking at Cisco. “These are all values that Cisco has a long history of being committed to – and we endorse initiatives such as this one.”

“At Deutsche Telekom we use P4 for prototyping key network functions as part of our Access 4.0 program,” said Jochen Appel, Vice President of Access Network Engineering, Deutsche Telekom. “We are quite excited about the potential P4 holds for driving innovation in the networking space and its role in a growing ecosystem of open programmable hardware and associated programming models.”

“As a member of ONF and the Linux Foundation, we at Goldman Sachs recognize the benefits of working with the open source community and developing common standards and solutions,” said Joshua Matheus, Managing Director and head of Network Engineering at Goldman Sachs. “We expect that P4 will bring additional innovation and transparency to our networking infrastructure, ultimately helping us deliver better solutions to our clients and the broader developer community.”

“As one of the creators of P4, Google is proud to see the rapid adoption of P4 across the networking industry,” said Amin Vahdat, Engineering Fellow, Vice President and Technical Lead for Networking at Google. “Seeing P4.org become a project under ONF/Linux Foundation will help the community better scale to meet the needs of a growing set of P4 developers and adopters around the world. Google looks forward to continuing to innovate with P4 technologies on behalf of the community and our customers.”

“Juniper Networks is committed to disaggregation as a natural extension of simple engineering design. We’ve incorporated P4 and P4 Runtime into a number of our products, allowing for uniform programmatic access to both Juniper built and merchant network processing silicon. We believe that programmatic access at all layers in the networking stack will drive flexibility and stokes competition, both of which benefit our customers. We are thrilled to work together with the P4 community to advance open standards for forwarding and control plane architectures as P4 becomes a project under ONF and The Linux Foundation,” said Bikash Koley, CTO & Executive Vice President at Juniper Networks.

“Ruijie is a strong supporter of P4 and the benefits it brings to networking,” said Wang Xiaojun, Software Director of Switch Product Line at Ruijie Networks. “With P4 and programmable forwarding planes we are able to create and deliver best-in-class solutions to a wide range of customers. It is great to see P4.org joining ONF and LF as it will help P4 gain more traction and adoption accelerating innovation in networking.”

“Tencent is at the forefront of using a wide range of innovative technologies to better scale its infrastructure delivering new and exciting services to its customers,” said Tom Bie, Vice President, Technology & Engineering Group at Tencent. “P4 and programmable forwarding planes are examples of cutting-edge technologies we are using in our new network architecture design. As a member of P4.org, we are pleased to see the continued growth in P4 community and are looking forward to seeing new breakthroughs come forth as it becomes part of ONF and Linux Foundation.”

“P4 is creating massive energy, innovation and community that is driving a meaningful and necessary transformation in networking,” said Pere Monclus, chief technology officer, networking and security business at VMware. “VMware is excited to be a part of this industry movement as a new wave of innovation is unleashed by programmatic approaches that extend capabilities of infrastructure runtime.”

“Xilinx was one of the founding members of P4.org, and has taken an active part in the development of the P4 language,” said Salil Raje, SVP of Software and IP Products Group at Xilinx. “We are very enthusiastic about the rapid adoption of P4 across the data center and telecommunications networking industry, and have adopted it in our programmable FPGA-based platforms for SmartNIC and NFV equipment, releasing one of the first P416 compilers as part of our SDNet design environment in 2017. We are very pleased to see P4.org joining LF and ONF, both noted open source organizations, which will further stimulate the P4 community to evolve and grow.”