Intel goes Barefoot

Barefoot has a P4-programmable switch chip that can run up to speeds of 6.5 Tbit/s.

The company has received funding in the past from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Dell, Alibaba and Tencent.

“The addition of Barefoot Networks will support our focus on end-to-end cloud networking and infrastructure leadership, and will allow Intel to continue to deliver on new workloads, experiences and capabilities for our data centre customers, “says Intel vp Navin Shenoy.

“Barefoot Networks will add deep expertise in cloud network architectures, P4-programmable high-speed data paths, switch silicon development, P4 compilers, driver software, network telemetry and computational networking.”