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 ...

Broadcast networks are increasingly moving to IP, and this gives them the opportunity to take advantage of a programmable forwarding plane. Increasingly, broadcast networks are converting to Internet ...

The global connectivity market is shifting. With traditional European telecom growth slowing to 2-3% by 2029, businesses must adapt through Agentic AI, critical communications, and digital sovereignty ...

Expanded off-net reach and multi-cloud simplicity drive more than 2,000 enterprises to adopt Lumen’s programmable network platform for Cloud 2.0 and AI workloads Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today ...

Expands portfolio with seven new energy-efficient and high-performing Massive MIMO and Remote radios, Indoor 5G solutions, and new open fronthaul products called RAN Connect The innovations will ...

For two decades, the telecommunications industry has operated on a familiar premise: Build the pipe, push the data and scale ...

Reconfigurable computing 1,2, enabled by highly flexible and reprogrammable hardware such as field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, offers a promising solution to a persistent challenge in ...

New and emerging technologies are putting extraordinary pressure on networks in terms of uptime and performance: hyperscale architectures, cloud services, cybersecurity, AI, and others. Another factor ...

It would be very difficult indeed to find a better general manager for Intel’s newly constituted Network and Edge Group networking business than Nick McKeown, and Pat Gelsinger, the chief executive ...