Barefoot Networks is on a mission, and it is a simple one: To give datacenter switches the same kind of openness and programmability that X86 servers have enjoyed for decades in the datacenter. With ...

It's been a while since we caught up with Nick McKeown, chief scientist at Barefoot Networks. Read on to find out McKeown's startup routine, his plans for P4, and his take on the state of OpenFlow.

If you’ve been catching up on Stranger Things, you might be primed for some ’80s nostalgia. So, let’s go back to 1984, when John Gage, an early Sun Microsystems employee, coined the phrase “the ...

High-performing programmable networks empower communications service providers (CSPs) to steer network behavior, aligning it with diverse business goals for optimal outcomes Seven new 5G Advanced ...

What will determine whether this moment becomes a lasting movement is not capital alone, but the infrastructure ecosystem ...

CEO Borje Ekholm highlighted stable organic sales and strong growth in the Americas, with gross margin at 48.5% and EBITA margin at 12.6%. He emphasized progress in programmable networks, citing new ...

A team of RIT computer science researchers has created a new programmable switch that significantly reduces lookup time, helping to improve router performance by more than 100 percent. The team ...

Photo: Sensor nodes are attached to a firefighter in a Paris Sensor Network Experiment. Modern wireless sensor networks have become quite common in the past five years. In the scientific community, ...

Software-programmable network processors (NPUs), until recently the domain of ASICs, now provide designers an alternative that offers lower development costs, faster time-to-market and future-proofing ...

The rise of programmable networks has changed the role of the network engineer, and accepting those changes is key to career advancement. Network engineers need to become software fluent and embrace ...

A team of RIT computer science researchers has created a new programmable switch that significantly reduces lookup time, helping to improve router performance by more than 100 percent. The team ...