What is programmable networking?
Programmable networking redefines flexibility by enabling dynamic updates to ASIC features, capabilities, and hardware behavior without requiring hardware changes.
Cisco Silicon One's programmable networking supports industry standards, open networking, and customer-specific innovations, allowing networks to evolve alongside emerging needs.
For example, new capabilities from organizations like the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) or customer-specific features like CSIG are seamlessly integrated into the Silicon One ASIC, delivering innovation and adaptability.
How it works?
Cisco Silicon One's programmability, powered by P4, dynamically adapts hardware behavior to evolving requirements using advanced techniques.
It enables precise packet inspection to determine actions, efficient traffic shaping to balance network loads, and real-time packet manipulation to resize packets or add metadata for new protocols.
Advanced routing techniques, such as packet spraying, ensure optimal path selection, while telemetry updates provide actionable insights for traffic optimization.
These capabilities work together to deliver unmatched flexibility, enabling networks to adapt seamlessly to changing standards and workloads.
How can it be deployed in your network?
Programmability with Cisco Silicon One ensures seamless integration into customer networks. Updates flow from the ASIC to the device and ultimately to the broader network, enabling dynamic updates to features and capabilities without requiring hardware replacements.
Customers benefit from rapid innovation, hardware longevity, and operational simplicity.