News

Bronze Sponsor, NVIDIA

Sun, 09, Mar. 2025

NVIDIA is the leader in open networking with end-to-end solutions for SmartNICs, DPUs, open optics, and accelerated data center switches. NVIDIA is committed to open-source at all layers of the software and hardware stack with open networking initiatives like Linux Networking, SwitchDev, DENT, and the SONiC network operating systems and believes that open-source has the power to accelerate innovation and benefits everyone.


Bronze Sponsor, ByteDance

Fri, 21, Feb. 2025

Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.


Bronze Sponsor, Fastly

Wed, 19, Feb. 2025

Fastly is an instant programmable platform that helps teams of all sizes create secure, scalable, fast digital experiences. At Fastly, open source is a part of our heritage, essential to our operations, and central to our future — especially Linux.

Learn how Fastly uses and contributes to the Linux kernel, and make sure to catch Fastly’s distinguished engineer’s Netdev talk, “IRQ Suspension: a new, efficient mechanism for packet delivery.”


Bronze Sponsor, secunet

Mon, 17, Feb. 2025

secunet is Germany’s leading cybersecurity company. In an increasingly connected world, the company’s combination of products and consulting assures resilient digital infrastructures and the utmost protection for data, applications and digital identities. secunet specialises in areas with unique security requirements – such as cloud, IIoT, eGovernment and eHealth. With security solutions from secunet, companies can maintain the highest security standards in digitisation projects and advance their digital transformation.

secunet is an IT security partner to the Federal Republic of Germany and a partner of the German Alliance for Cyber Security.


Bronze Sponsor, Relianoid

Thu, 13, Feb. 2025

At RELIANOID, we simplify the complexity of the site reliability through network and application load balancing and security, high availability, and identity protection. Based on an open core and the expertise of our dedicated Team after more than 15 years of experience. Discover the Site Reliability Experience with RELIANOID. Know more at www.relianoid.com


Silver Sponsor, HAProxy

Mon, 03, Feb. 2025

HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy One, the world’s fastest application delivery and security platform, and HAProxy, the most widely used software load balancer. Leading companies and cloud providers trust HAProxy to simplify, scale, and secure modern applications, APIs, and AI services in any environment.

Learn more at HAProxy.com.


Bronze Sponsor, Mojatatu

Sat, 01, Feb. 2025

Mojatatu believes in giving back to the Linux netdev community and has supported every single Netdev conf since inception. Mojatatu continues to pioneer in next generation SDN.


Bronze Sponsor, Tempesta

Fri, 31, Jan. 2025

Tempesta Technologies develops Tempesta FW (https://github.com/tempesta-tech/tempesta), an open source hybrid of a Web accelerator and a multi-layer firewall. It’s tightly coupled with the Linux TCP/IP stack and employs cutting edge technologies to efficiently block DDoS and web attacks and provide outstanding web application performance in normal operation.


Gold Sponsor, Google

Wed, 29, Jan. 2025

Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology.

For more details on Google’s open source activities visit: https://opensource.google/


Bronze Sponsor, SKUDONET

Mon, 27, Jan. 2025

“Open Source application delivery controller made secure” SKUDONET https://www.skudonet.com/, with more than 12 years of experience in the ADC world, offers an Open Source Load Balancer and Custom ADC solution to elevate your business Security and IT Infrastructure.


Gold Sponsor, Meta

Sat, 25, Jan. 2025

Meta believes open source accelerates the pace of innovation in the world. By sharing our code, our stack, or even our hardware designs, we’re moving the industry forward while giving other companies and individuals a chance to use our platform to scale more quickly and build great products.


Gold Sponsor, Jump Trading

Wed, 22, Jan. 2025

Jump Trading Group is a research-based electronic trading firm with 1,500+ employees and over a dozen offices across the globe. Founded in the trading pits of Chicago in 1999, our continued success is driven by partnering sophisticated quantitative research with bleeding-edge technology to trade the global markets.

Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.


New Conference Format

Fri, 17, Jan. 2025

We have taken your feedback and reduced the number of conference days. We are going to experiment with 4 days this time (instead of 5). The conference will start on Monday, March 10th 2025 and end on Thursday 13th. We’ll see how this one goes and whether we should stick to this format.

Apologies for any inconvenience. Registration will open RSN.


Netdev 0x19 Call for Submissions

Tue, 12, Nov. 2024

We are pleased to announce the opening of Call For Submissions(CFS) for Netdev conf 0x19. Netdev conf 0x19 is going to be a hybrid conference with the physical component being in Zagreb, Croatia.

For overview of topics, submissions and requirements please visit: https://netdevconf.info/0x19/pages/submit-proposal.html

For submitted sessions, we employ a blind review process carried out by the Program Committee. Please refer to: https://www.netdevconf.info/0x19/pages/pc_review.html

Important dates:

  • Closing of CFS: Jan 17th, 2025
  • Notification by: Jan 26th, 2025
  • Conference dates: March 10th-13th 2025

Please take this opportunity to share your work and ideas with the community