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 ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Since 2011 the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has served as the caretaker of the OpenFlow standard and as a champion of software-defined networking (SDN). In the past year, ...

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.