Article P4 SmartNIC stories: Intel This year there where a lot of interesting SmartNIC announcements, not only from the usual NIC vendors but also from some new kids on the block. What is happening in the previously sleepy NIC space? In this blog I will start with analyzing Intel.
Article An Open P4 based virtual network switch In this article I will explain why I think there is room for a P4vSwitch 'library' implementation. Some in-depth information about XDP and AF_XDP is given. It then shows my preferred P4vSwitch architecture and will give a peek into my next blog about my POC implementation of a P4vSwitch.
Latest-news Updated website! It had to happen: we updated our website and in the process we also implemented the newest Ghost blogging engine...
Article BGP – an SDN federation interface? Within the IETF NVO3 workgroup, they are discussing to use an existing protocol (MP-BGP) for the federation of NVA (Network Virtualization Authorities or controllers, so essentially communication between overlay controller
Article Google gives insight in its DC Network Google presented some material at ACM Sigcomm that gives us some insight into the setup of its data center networking technologies.
External Segment routing, MPLS and the adoption of SDN. Segment routing could change the way MPLS networks function and facilitate the adoption of SDN. Find out how it works and why you should know more about it.
External Network Virtualization: Overlay and Underlay Design Lately, there has been a plethora of blogs and discussions around the viability of network virtualization and overlay networks. This blog post is an attempt to bring some clarity in this debate.
