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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CEO Borje Ekholm highlighted stable organic sales and strong growth in the Americas, with gross margin at 48.5% and EBITA margin at 12.6%. He emphasized progress in programmable networks, citing new ...

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 ...

Photo: Sensor nodes are attached to a firefighter in a Paris Sensor Network Experiment. Modern wireless sensor networks have become quite common in the past five years. In the scientific community, ...

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 ...

Programmable devices are driving ASICs out of their traditional home in the network communications market, according to Chuck Fox, president and chief executive officer of Chameleon Systems Inc. of ...

To help ring in the 2017 New Year, CNN wanted to do a live shot from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, but had an issue: “They were concerned about being out at sea, would they have the ability to ...

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 ...