Jean L. Calvignac is an

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and was responsible for the architecture of PowerNP, an

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. He holds more than 220 patents.

Career

In 1998, at the IBM Laboratory in the

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, Calvignac and his team initiated the IBM network processor activities. He had previously been responsible for system design of the ATM switching products, which he initiated with his team in 1992 at the IBM Laboratory in

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. Before that, he had held different management and technical leader positions for architecture and development of communication controller products at the La Gaude Laboratory. Calvignac joined IBM in 1971 as a development engineer in telephone switching products. He received an engineering degree in 1969 from the

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, France. Calvignac has been awarded more than 220

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s, mostly in the field of communication and networking. He has contributed to standards and a few scientific papers. He was named an

in 1997, IBM's highest technical honor.IBM Fellows
IBM. Calvignac is a Fellow of the

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(in Europe) and a Senior Member of the

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