P4 programming is simple for fast, adaptable networking P4 is a programming language for packet processors that doesn’t start from assuming that one wants to use certain products, according to ...

And now, the P4 programming language is breathing new life into OpenFlow. OpenFlow is all about separating the forwarding plane from the control plane in networks.

With the Tofino 2 Ethernet switch ASICs that the company has just revealed, the company will be able to capitalize on the growing popularity of programmable switching in general and in the P4 ...

In combining the P4 programming language with fast programmable switches, Barefoot has also created an ecosystem for compilers, tools, and P4 programs to make P4 accessible to anybody.

Like its 16nm predecessor, Tofino 2 leverages Barefoot’s Pisa architecture and uses the P4 programmable language that enables the programming of packet forwarding planes.

The company makes the Tofino programmable Ethernet switches, which are programmable through the use of its P4 programming language, and also has an analytics software called Deep Insight.

In combining the P4 programming language with fast programmable switches, Barefoot has also created an ecosystem for compilers, tools, and P4 programs to make P4 accessible to anybody.

In combining the P4 programming language with fast programmable switches, Barefoot has also created an ecosystem for compilers, tools, and P4 programs to make P4 accessible to anybody.

It found a key piece of the puzzle in the domain-specific P4 programming language for controlling packet-forwarding planes in networking devices.