• Build a thriving open source community dedicated to the use and improvement of the P4 language.
• Utilize P4 to describe how a forwarding plane should process packets.
• Promote standardization and improvement of the P4 language
• Enable industry participants to develop new technologies that function in accordance with the specification.
• Benefit consumers and the industry by facilitating adoption of the P4 language.

action in Linux as a key element of Open Source Software (OSS).

Funded by Google, IBM, NEC, Philips, Sony, SUSE and Toyota, OIN has more than 3,300 community members

who have access to more than 2.6+ million patents and applications.

infrastructure and carrier business models.

The ONF serves as the umbrella for a number of projects building solutions by leveraging network disaggregation,

white box economics, open source software and software defined standards to revolutionize the carrier industry.

the development and deployment of open, disaggregated, and standards-based technology solutions that deliver the

high quality connectivity that the world needs – now and in the decades to come.

the Open Compute Project.

All open network switches from Netberg are ONL-compatible, and the BSPs are public on the ONL GitHub page.

It is building an open, minimal production-ready distribution for white box switches. Stratum exposes a set of next-generation

SDN interfaces including P4Runtime and OpenConfig, enabling interchangeability of forwarding devices and

the programmability of forwarding behaviors.