SiPanda Launches to Rethink the Network Infrastructure Datapath and Create a New Level of Flexibility and Performance Share Article Company founded by Tom Herbert, lead networking engineer and technology visionary at Google, Facebook, and Intel. "Our architecture rethinks the network datapath to simultaneously deliver wire-speed performance and maximum flexibility." - Tom Herbert, founder and CTO, SiPanda SANTA CLARA, Calif. (PRWEB) February 18, 2021 Today SiPanda Inc. introduces Protocol And Network Datapath Acceleration (PANDA), an open-source domain-specific programming model and parser for high performance network infrastructure. PANDA establishes a model that allows efficient implementation in software running on commodity CPUs and facilitates implementation in accelerated hardware for maximum performance benefit while maintaining programming flexibility. The goal of PANDA is to enable data center infrastructure operators like cloud service providers (CSPs) to deliver fully software-programable data and control paths that support line rates of 200Gbps to 1.2Tbps and higher.