The dawn of software defined networking (SDN) ushered in an era of disaggregation of the networking control plane from the data plane; management of the network was no longer bound to the networking ...

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 ...

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.