As networks evolve into dynamic, programmable platforms for AI-native and edge workloads, DPUs and IPUs have become critical infrastructure offloading networking, security, and data movement from the CPU. But every vendor has built its own stack, APIs, and tooling, creating fragmentation that slows adoption and locks operators into single-vendor ecosystems.

In this lightning talk, we'll break down why this fragmentation exists, and show how the open source community is solving it through a vendor-neutral, standards-based control plane for DPU/IPU silicon. No deep architecture dive just the problem, the open source fix, and how you can get involved.