Two pioneers of SDN — Jennifer Rexford and Nick McKeown — have officially launched a consortium around P4, a language that allows for programming the data plane. If successful, P4 could widen the ...

P4, the language that could be a successor to OpenFlow, isn't a sure thing yet, but it's certainly captured the imagination of certain vendors, particularly on the chip side. Last week, Netronome also ...

The dawn of software defined networking (SDN) ushered in an era of disaggregation of the networking control plane from the data plane; management of the network was no longer bound to the networking ...

P4 lets networks finally break free of rigid hardware, adding custom protocols, real-time visibility and smarter security without waiting on vendors. Network engineers have spent decades working ...