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Why Does the Internet Need a Programmable Forwarding Plane with Nick McKeown



Networking Field Day 14

This video is part of the appearance, “Barefoot Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14“. It was recorded as part of Networking Field Day 14 at 13:00 - 15:00 on January 18, 2017.

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Nick McKeown, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Barefoot Networks, reviews the current state of network switches. The slow development time and functions fixed in silicon show why a programmable switch is appealing. Barefoot Networks sees this as the next evolution of domain specific processors, in the same vein as Java and OpenCL. Barefoot’s take on this is Tofino, a P4 programmable network switch.

Personnel: Nick McKeown


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