The SDN Policy Offload reference pipeline implements a set of SDN policy and networking services, ready to deploy. Similar to the other reference pipelines, it provides insight into P4 and its capabilities to develop your own services. Despite its relatively simple structure, the SDN reference pipeline showcases the power of P4, that can be used for building custom networking and security services such as IPsec, or any other stateless or stateful networking services without compromising the performance of the networking device the DPU resides in.