It was created in 2013 by the P4 Language Consortium, a non-profit organization formed by a group of engineers and researchers from Google, Intel, Microsoft Research, Barefoot Networks, Princeton and Stanford. They required an industry-standard open programming language, so they developed P4, which is easy to learn and can be used to precisely define how packets are being forwarded within the network infrastructure. Since then, P4 was rapidly adopted by market leaders and gained strong support, in particular among the data center and telecommunications industry.
Aaron Glenn, network enthusiast and managing director of AAGICo Berlin UG, talks to Ethan ...
Prem Jonnalagadda from Barefoot Networks quickly explains how a P4 programmable data plane...
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