Barefoot Networks Brings the Power of P4 Programmability to Open Compute Project’s SONiC
San Jose, CA - March 21, 2018 - Barefoot Networks, the creator of Barefoot Tofino™, the world’s fastest P4-programmable Ethernet switch ASIC family, and Barefoot Deep Insight™, the world’s first network monitoring and analytics system that lets you see what is happening with every packet to the nanosecond, today announced the availability of Open Compute Project’s (OCP) Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) on multiple Barefoot Tofino-based bare metal switching platforms.
Powered by Barefoot’s programmable forwarding plane, Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) implementation for the available SONiC features paves the way for introducing more advanced capabilities, such as data plane telemetry (Dtel). Already enabled on Tofino using P4 and exposed through the SAI Dtel specification, this SONiC feature is currently under development and will be showcased with Barefoot Deep Insight in several demos at OCP U.S. Summit, to be held March 20-21 in San Jose, CA.
As cloud operators scale their networks to deliver new services to a rapidly growing customer base, the speed and agility with which they can adapt their network, while maintaining simplicity and security, is of paramount importance. Microsoft launched open source project SONiC, which is built on SAI, a common API used to program switching ASICs, to enable operators to find and apply innovations in networking hardware, software and applications under a single solution across multiple platforms.
“Working together with the industry’s top switch vendors and seeing their receptivity to sharing open source code has already greatly contributed to the advancement of cloud networking,” said Yousef Khalidi, Corporate VP of Microsoft Azure Networking. “Barefoot’s unique support of SONiC and implementation of SAI based on its P4-programmable Tofino Ethernet switch is helping to accelerate open networking, ensuring broader availability of innovative networking solutions.”
“Barefoot is pleased to bring the unprecedented value of its programmable forwarding plane technology to the OCP ecosystem with the wide adoption and availability of bare metal switching platforms using its Tofino series of P4-programmable Ethernet switch ASICs,” said Ed Doe, VP of Product, Strategy and Business at Barefoot Networks. “Barefoot Tofino running SONiC with Dtel SAI APIs enables network operators to take advantage of the benefits of programmable forwarding planes, including increased scale, ability to add new features themselves and per-packet visibility. We are excited to showcase this end-to-end solution with Barefoot Deep Insight providing per-packet, real-time analysis and visibility into the network.”
Wistron NeWeb Corporation (WNC) and Edgecore Networks collaborated with Barefoot to enable SONiC support on respective Tofino-based bare metal switching platforms. The SONiC software on these platforms is fully validated using the community test suite to confirm SAI implementation quality. WNC’s OSW1800 and OSW6500 and Edgecore’s Wedge100BF-32X and Wedge100BF-65X switches, with the Tofino ASICs, now support SONiC. As a result, customers can directly download the image from SONiC’s GitHub repository, providing broader and more convenient availability for the solution.
"WNC is excited to offer the SONiC open software platform on our Tofino-based solutions," said Gene Chuang, CTO of Networking at WNC. "WNC has spent a considerable amount of time and effort validating the SONiC platform’s performance on our Tofino solutions, which has allowed our partners to seamlessly implement SONiC in their existing Tofino-based WNC systems."
“Edgecore sees the demand from our data center, telecom and enterprise customers for open networks that are easily programmable and leverage open source software platforms,” said Jeff Catlin, VP Technology, Edgecore Networks. “We are pleased to work with Barefoot and the SONiC community to make available Edgecore open network switches incorporating Barefoot Tofino programmable silicon and running SONiC software to meet those requirements.”
Tofino delivers deep visibility into every packet using Dtel, where metadata of interest can be embedded into every packet or delivered via a separate packet to an analytics engine like Barefoot Deep Insight.
Barefoot will showcase their integration and support of SONiC, along with the company’s portfolio of products and expertise, including their Deep Insight solution and telemetry capabilities, in the following demos onsite at OCP U.S. Summit 2018:
Demo Name: Barefoot Deep Insight and Telemetry Capabilities
Description: This demo will showcase microburst detection displayed via Barefoot Deep Insight, with Dtel functionality configured on SONiC. The solution is leveraging SAI Dtel APIs proposed by Barefoot and approved by community. It is running on P4-programmable 6.5Tb/s Barefoot Tofino ASIC based white box.
Location: Booth C1
Barefoot Tofino is the world's first end-user programmable series of Ethernet switch ASICs. The switch leverages P4 to let customers define forwarding plane functionality in minutes, providing both programmability and performance for a wide array of use cases. Generally available since 2017, Tofino is used by customers in a variety of market segments, including hyperscale data centers, enterprise, and service provider to leverage programmability to meet rapidly growing network functionality and performance requirements.
Barefoot Deep Insight is the world’s first network monitoring system to provide full visibility into every packet in a network. Deep Insight detects almost any anomaly in the network, including microbursts, congestion problems and load balancing issues. This allows customers to uncover the four ground truths for every packet in their network: 1) How did it get here? 2) Why is it here? 3) How long was it delayed? and 4) Why was it delayed? Deep Insight is available now to key customers and partners.
To meet with Barefoot at OCP U.S. Summit, please contact info@barefootnetworks.com.
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. Barefoot Networks is headquartered in Silicon Valley and is 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.
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About Edgecore Networks
Edgecore Networks Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Accton Technology Corporation, the leading network ODM. Edgecore Networks delivers wired and wireless networking products and solutions through channel partners and system integrators worldwide for data center, service provider, enterprise, and SMB customers. Edgecore Networks is the leader in open networking, providing a full line of 1 GbE, 10 GbE, 25 GbE, 40 GbE, 50 GbE, and 100 GbE open and OCP switches that offer choice of NOS and SDN software for data center, telecommunications, and enterprise network use cases. For more information, visit www.Edge-Core.com.
Powered by Barefoot’s programmable forwarding plane, Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) implementation for the available SONiC features paves the way for introducing more advanced capabilities, such as data plane telemetry (Dtel). Already enabled on Tofino using P4 and exposed through the SAI Dtel specification, this SONiC feature is currently under development and will be showcased with Barefoot Deep Insight in several demos at OCP U.S. Summit, to be held March 20-21 in San Jose, CA.
As cloud operators scale their networks to deliver new services to a rapidly growing customer base, the speed and agility with which they can adapt their network, while maintaining simplicity and security, is of paramount importance. Microsoft launched open source project SONiC, which is built on SAI, a common API used to program switching ASICs, to enable operators to find and apply innovations in networking hardware, software and applications under a single solution across multiple platforms.
“Working together with the industry’s top switch vendors and seeing their receptivity to sharing open source code has already greatly contributed to the advancement of cloud networking,” said Yousef Khalidi, Corporate VP of Microsoft Azure Networking. “Barefoot’s unique support of SONiC and implementation of SAI based on its P4-programmable Tofino Ethernet switch is helping to accelerate open networking, ensuring broader availability of innovative networking solutions.”
“Barefoot is pleased to bring the unprecedented value of its programmable forwarding plane technology to the OCP ecosystem with the wide adoption and availability of bare metal switching platforms using its Tofino series of P4-programmable Ethernet switch ASICs,” said Ed Doe, VP of Product, Strategy and Business at Barefoot Networks. “Barefoot Tofino running SONiC with Dtel SAI APIs enables network operators to take advantage of the benefits of programmable forwarding planes, including increased scale, ability to add new features themselves and per-packet visibility. We are excited to showcase this end-to-end solution with Barefoot Deep Insight providing per-packet, real-time analysis and visibility into the network.”
Wistron NeWeb Corporation (WNC) and Edgecore Networks collaborated with Barefoot to enable SONiC support on respective Tofino-based bare metal switching platforms. The SONiC software on these platforms is fully validated using the community test suite to confirm SAI implementation quality. WNC’s OSW1800 and OSW6500 and Edgecore’s Wedge100BF-32X and Wedge100BF-65X switches, with the Tofino ASICs, now support SONiC. As a result, customers can directly download the image from SONiC’s GitHub repository, providing broader and more convenient availability for the solution.
"WNC is excited to offer the SONiC open software platform on our Tofino-based solutions," said Gene Chuang, CTO of Networking at WNC. "WNC has spent a considerable amount of time and effort validating the SONiC platform’s performance on our Tofino solutions, which has allowed our partners to seamlessly implement SONiC in their existing Tofino-based WNC systems."
“Edgecore sees the demand from our data center, telecom and enterprise customers for open networks that are easily programmable and leverage open source software platforms,” said Jeff Catlin, VP Technology, Edgecore Networks. “We are pleased to work with Barefoot and the SONiC community to make available Edgecore open network switches incorporating Barefoot Tofino programmable silicon and running SONiC software to meet those requirements.”
Tofino delivers deep visibility into every packet using Dtel, where metadata of interest can be embedded into every packet or delivered via a separate packet to an analytics engine like Barefoot Deep Insight.
Barefoot will showcase their integration and support of SONiC, along with the company’s portfolio of products and expertise, including their Deep Insight solution and telemetry capabilities, in the following demos onsite at OCP U.S. Summit 2018:
Demo Name: Barefoot Deep Insight and Telemetry Capabilities
Description: This demo will showcase microburst detection displayed via Barefoot Deep Insight, with Dtel functionality configured on SONiC. The solution is leveraging SAI Dtel APIs proposed by Barefoot and approved by community. It is running on P4-programmable 6.5Tb/s Barefoot Tofino ASIC based white box.
Location: Booth C1
Barefoot Tofino is the world's first end-user programmable series of Ethernet switch ASICs. The switch leverages P4 to let customers define forwarding plane functionality in minutes, providing both programmability and performance for a wide array of use cases. Generally available since 2017, Tofino is used by customers in a variety of market segments, including hyperscale data centers, enterprise, and service provider to leverage programmability to meet rapidly growing network functionality and performance requirements.
Barefoot Deep Insight is the world’s first network monitoring system to provide full visibility into every packet in a network. Deep Insight detects almost any anomaly in the network, including microbursts, congestion problems and load balancing issues. This allows customers to uncover the four ground truths for every packet in their network: 1) How did it get here? 2) Why is it here? 3) How long was it delayed? and 4) Why was it delayed? Deep Insight is available now to key customers and partners.
To meet with Barefoot at OCP U.S. Summit, please contact info@barefootnetworks.com.
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. Barefoot Networks is headquartered in Silicon Valley and is 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.
For more information, visit https://barefootnetworks.com/. Follow us on Twitter: @barefootnetwork.
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barefootnetworks.
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/barefoot-networks.
About Edgecore Networks
Edgecore Networks Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Accton Technology Corporation, the leading network ODM. Edgecore Networks delivers wired and wireless networking products and solutions through channel partners and system integrators worldwide for data center, service provider, enterprise, and SMB customers. Edgecore Networks is the leader in open networking, providing a full line of 1 GbE, 10 GbE, 25 GbE, 40 GbE, 50 GbE, and 100 GbE open and OCP switches that offer choice of NOS and SDN software for data center, telecommunications, and enterprise network use cases. For more information, visit www.Edge-Core.com.