Two pioneers of SDN — Jennifer Rexford and Nick McKeown — have officially launched a consortium around P4, a language that allows for programming the data plane. If successful, P4 could widen the ...

Pensando Systems Inc., a startup that emerged from stealth mode late last year, has built its Distributed Services Platform to provide software-defined services at the server edge. The heart of the ...

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.