Barefoot Networks to Showcase Programmable Data Plane Use Cases with SONiC and Other Solutions at Open Compute Project Global Summit 2019

Barefoot Networks , a provider of high-performance and fully programmable networking solutions, today announced that it will be sponsoring Open Compute Project Global Summit 2019, March 14-15, in San Jose, Calif., with several demonstrations and presentations highlighting the power of P4-programmability and programmable data planes for open infrastructure.

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  • Barefoot Networks , a provider of high-performance and fully programmable networking solutions, today announced that it will be sponsoring Open Compute Project Global Summit 2019, March 14-15, in San Jose, Calif., with several demonstrations and presentations highlighting the power of P4-programmability and programmable data planes for open infrastructure.
  • The growth of cloud computing over the past year has accelerated the pressure on networks to be more flexible and nimble than ever before.
  • Since announcing SONiC support at OCP Summit 2018, Barefoot has worked closely with Microsoft to expand the set of SONiC capabilities on Tofino as well as number of customers using SONiC in production, said Ed Doe, Chief Business Officer, Barefoot Networks.
  • Barefoot Networks, the Foot Logo, Tofino, P4 Studio and Deep Insight are trademarks of Barefoot Networks.


Barefoot
Networks, a provider of high-performance and fully programmable
networking solutions, today announced that it will be sponsoring Open
Compute Project Global Summit 2019, March 14-15, in San Jose, Calif.,
with several demonstrations and presentations highlighting the power of
P4-programmability and programmable data planes for open infrastructure.

The growth of cloud computing over the past year has accelerated the
pressure on networks to be more flexible and nimble than ever before.
While disaggregation and availability of mature disaggregated network
operating systems have enabled agility in control and management planes,
true network agility can not be achieved without a dataplane that is
fully programmable in an open language. Hence, only the combination of
an operating system such as Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC)
based on Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI), Barefoot Tofino and P4 can
truly unlock the potential of a next-generation cloud network.

“Since announcing SONiC support at OCP Summit 2018, Barefoot has
worked closely with Microsoft to expand the set of SONiC capabilities on
Tofino as well as number of customers using SONiC in production,” said
Ed Doe, Chief Business Officer, Barefoot Networks. “Delivering a unique
approach to high availability features, such as fast reboot and warm
reboot in addition to advanced features like VxLAN and data plane
telemetry based on Dtel SAI APIs and Smart Programmable Real Time INT
(SPRINT), has allowed us to accelerate customer adoption of SONiC on
P4-programmable data planes.”

“Driven by the increased need for open cloud networking, the SONiC
and SAI communities have made tremendous advancements over the past
year,” said Yousef Khalidi, CVP, Microsoft Azure Networking. “Barefoot
Networks has advanced SONiC on a P4-programmable data plane with an
increased number of supported use cases such as bare metal ToR and spine
and is demonstrating on a diverse set of switch platforms at this year’s
OCP Summit.”

Barefoot Networks will host various demonstrations at its booth (A18) as
well as at partners' booths. See “Bringing
OCP Vision to Reality with Programmable Data Planes: A Progress Report”
blog for more information on the demonstrations and presentations that
will showcase the tremendous progress in adoption of programmable data
planes and P4 that Barefoot Networks and its partners have achieved over
the past year.

Available joint demonstrations include:

  1. Disaggregated Chassis with SONiC and VxLAN
    Location: Microsoft,
    Booth A6
  2. Network Infrastructure High Availability with SONiC Warm Reboot
    Location:
    Microsoft, Booth A6
  3. Uncompromised Dataplane Telemetry on Multi-vendor Cloud fabric with
    Barefoot Tofino and Barefoot Deep Insight
    Location: Barefoot
    Networks, Booth A18

To meet with Barefoot at OCP U.S. Summit, please contact [email protected]

About Barefoot Networks

Barefoot Networks launched in 2016 after two years of developing
technology that built switch silicon with a forwarding plane that is
defined in software while not compromising on performance. Barefoot
empowers network owners and their infrastructure partners to design,
optimize, and innovate to meet their specific requirements and gain
competitive advantage. In combining the P4 programming language with
fast programmable switches, Barefoot has also created an ecosystem for
compilers, tools, and P4 programs to make P4 accessible to anybody.
Backed by Google Inc., Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments,
Alibaba, Tencent, and by premier venture capital firms Sequoia Capital,
Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Andreessen Horowitz, Barefoot Networks
is headquartered in Silicon Valley. For more information, visit https://barefootnetworks.com/.

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Barefoot Networks, the Foot Logo, Tofino, P4 Studio and Deep Insight
are trademarks of Barefoot Networks.

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