TECHNICAL TEAM
Carmelo Cascone
Charles Chan
Saurav Das
Pier Luigi Ventre
The SD-Fabric™ is a P4-programmable network fabric designed to empower programmers to customize packet processing in the network fabric.
SD-Fabric creates an Ethernet fabric optimized for edge application and uses SDN control to make a spine-leaf assembly of switches appear as a virtual single routing instance to all hosts and routers connected to the fabric.
SD-Fabric is being used by the Pronto project, leveraging the full programmability of P4 to implement fine-grained measurement, network verification and closed-loop control.
SD-Fabric Architecture
Empowered by a fully programmable, verifiable data plane
Supports Advanced Networking Functions
SD-Fabric exposes APIs so application developers can customize the forwarding pipeline. As an example, SD-Core terminates mobile subscriber traffic in a P4 switch and/or NIC by implementing the User Plane Function (P4-UPF) via SD-Fabric APIs.
