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