Blog Authors: Haitao Kang, Technical Director, Intel Mingrong Chen, Marketing Manager, Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute (FNII) The Intel ® 2022 P4 China Hackathon explored P4 outstanding talents, improved P4 developers’ innovation capability, and promoted P4 programmable network ecological construction and we are proud to announce the winners of the online final appraisal which took […]
The Japan P4 Users Group will be held as a hybrid event with both in-person and online access. This in-person event includes both presentations by industry and academic members of the P4 community who will share their use cases, insights and experiences with P4. The event will also feature exhibits. In addition to live sessions, […]
The SIGCOMM 2022 program featured this year an excellent main track, workshops, and tutorials which concluded with an in-person P4Pi Hackathon. This was the second P4Pi Hackathon organized in the SIGCOMM series. P4Pi (https://github.com/p4lang/p4pi) is an educational platform developed within ONF’s P4 Education Working Group that combines the popular Raspberry Pi board with open-source P4 […]
We are pleased to announce that Mario Baldi has been appointed as the new co-chair of the P4 Architecture Working Group, joining co-chair Andy Fingerhut. Mario is replacing Gordon Brebner whom we’d like to recognize and thank for his participation and contributions in the P4 Architecture Working Group and the broader P4 community. Mario is […]
The Intel® 2022 P4 China Hackathon aims to cultivate and discover outstanding P4 talents and help developers build network infrastructure, machine learning and Applications in artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, network measurement and optimization, network security and other scenarios will enhance the innovation ability of P4 developers and promote the construction of the P4 programmable network […]
The P4 Workshop Taiwan is being hosted by NYCU. Industry and academia speakers with extensive P4 experience will discuss P4 use cases and academic research projects. This event is free for attendees. 09:00 – 09:10 Opening Ceremony Jason Yi-Bing Lin, Lifetime Chair Professor (NYCU, Taiwan) 09:10 – 09:40 Keynote: Intel Tofino Expandable Architecture Platform Acceleration […]
The P4 programming language is the interface of choice for programmable data plane devices. P4 programs have to meet network throughput requirements, but they are also subject to resource constraints imposed by the hardware. Compilers and human programmers try to optimize code to meet these constraints, which is hard enough as it is—but how can […]
Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Novel Applications of P4 Awards, Fabricio Rodriguez, Pratap Pellakuru and Sharmila S.! The awards are offered to encourage creative and disruptive use cases for P4 and all the presentations included in the P4 2022 Workshop were eligible to win. Award winners were selected based on a combination of […]
EuroP4 2022 took place December 9th and was held in conjunction with CoNEXT 2022 (December 6-9, 2022) in Rome, Italy. The 5th European P4 Workshop (EuroP4) brought together networking researchers to discuss cutting-edge P4-based research and projects, P4-based tools, and the needs of the community. The workshop created an opportunity to forge connections between […]
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 […]
