Programmable-Data-Plane

• Software-Defined Networking: OpenFlow's Match-Action Tables, the P4 Language, and the Programmable Data Plane Vision · 2026-04-15

  How SDN rewired the ossified internet architecture — from OpenFlow's match-action pipeline to P4's protocol-independent packet processing, and the ONOS/ODL control planes that orchestrate programmable forwarding at scale.