Intel is buying Barefoot Networks, a challenger to Cisco that had raised over $150 million from giants like Google and Alibaba

Barefoot Networks is a somewhat unconventional networking company that lets developers program right on the silicon, opening up new uses.

with an unconventional approach to the market — an approach that focuses on Tofino, its proprietary line of processors that power its lineup of hardware products.

Specifically, Barefoot boasts that Tofino allows developers to program right on the processor itself, the lowest technical level possible, which means that customers can do things with its products that were never originally intended. For instance, Barefoot says, a Tofino-powered switch can be used to analyze and diagnose network traffic as it travels through the data center, with the developer free to apply fine-tuned controls over exactly what they're looking out for, and add to the model as they go.

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