This paper describes Trio, a programmable chipset used in Juniper Networks' MX-series
routers and switches. Trio's architecture is based on a multi-threaded programmable packet …

The creation of services on IP networks is a lengthy process. The development time is further
increased if this involves the equipment manufacturer adding third-party technology in their …

Designing ASICs for each new generation of backbone routers is a time intensive and
fiscally draining process. In this paper we focus on the design of a programmable …

Programmable packet-processing devices such as programmable switches and network
interface cards are becoming mainstream. These devices are configured in a domain …

We present PacketMill, a system for optimizing software packet processing, which (i)
introduces a new model to efficiently manage packet metadata and (ii) employs code …

Programmable NICs have diverse uses, and there is need for a NIC platform that can offload
computation from multiple co-resident applications to many different types of substrates …

Multiple vendors have recently released SmartNICs that provide both special-purpose
accelerators and programmable processing cores that allow increasingly sophisticated …

Programmable devices allow the operator to specify the data-plane behavior of a network
device in a high-level language such as P4. The compiler then maps the P4 program to the …

Software routers can lead us from a network of special-purpose hardware routers to one of
general-purpose extensible infrastructure-if, that is, they can scale to high speeds. We …

Reconfigurable network hardware makes it easier to experiment with and prototype high-
speed networking systems. However, these devices are still relatively hard to program; for …