Data plane has been a key component of Networking for Decades. It is going through massive disruption and transition as major trends like Disaggregation, Programmable hardware and SDN take center stage.
The intersecting technology requirements of 5G, Webscale data centers and SDN/NFV has shown new innovations in the area of Silicon, hardware, data plane acceleration using general purpose servers.
This panel will bring out ideas and actual innovation that is in the pipeline to create the fastest, most open, programmable and scalable data plane from silicon to hardware to low level software.