The P4 Language Consortium
| Formation | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Purpose | To create a thriving open source community to perfect the P4 language and encourage its widespread adoption to design network systems |
Membership | > 90 members |
Parent organization | Open Networking Foundation |
| Website | p4 |
The main purpose of The P4 Language Consortium is to create a thriving open source community to perfect the P4 language and encourage its widespread adoption to design network systems. The consortium hopes P4 will encourage the creation and availability of more flexible forwarding chips, and allow network designers and operators to decide how packets are processed in their networks.[1]
Formation
In 2013, a group from network manufacturers and academia[2][3] including Barefoot Networks, Intel, Stanford University, Princeton University, Google and Microsoft came together to define P4, a high-level language for programming future flexible network switches. P4 has three goals:
Protocol independence
Switches should not be tied to any specific network protocols.
Target independence
Programmers should be able to describe packet processing functionality independently of the specifics of the underlying hardware.
Reconfigurability in the field
Programmers should be able to change the way switches process packets once they are deployed.
Members
As of 2022, Accton, Arista, Bloombase, Celestica, Cisco, Innovium, Intel[4], Ixia, Juniper Networks, Linux Foundation[5], Microsoft, Netberg[6], NVIDIA, Pensando, VMware, Western Digital and Xilinx[7] have joined the consortium, totaling about 90 members.
References
- ↑ "What is a programmable data plane and where does P4 fit in?".
- ↑ "P4: Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors" (PDF).
- ↑ "The P4 Language Grows Up, Joins the ONF and Linux Foundation".
- ↑ "Intel unveils new generation of infrastructure processing units".
- ↑ "Linux Foundation launches a push for SmartNIC standards".
- ↑ "Netberg became a member of the P4 Language Consortium".
- ↑ "P4 Consortium Ecosystem".
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