When it comes to machine learning training, people tend to focus on the compute. We always want to know if the training is being done on specialized parallel X86 devices, like Intel’s Xeon Phi, or on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Telstra has announced a "major platform update" to the Telstra Programmable Network (TPN), partnering with VeloCloud to deploy a virtual branch network software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) ...

Chief information officers and air traffic controllers have a lot in common. At any given time, controllers at the world’s busiest airports must account for planes in the sky trying to land, planes ...

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 ...

Nick McKeown, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, has co-founded and successfully sold four startup companies. They include Nicira Inc., technology ...

Changing networks require changing skills. Learn how some IT pros are developing network programming skills to navigate the shift to software-defined networking (SDN) and respond to the increasing ...