Jean Calvignac

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Jean Calvignac is an IBM Fellow, currently responsible for the system design of IBM network processors.

In 1998, at the IBM Research Triangle Park Laboratory, he 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 La Gaude Laboratory in France. Before then, he had held different management and technical leader positions for architecture and development of the IBM communication controller products at the IBM 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 Grenoble Polytechnic Institute, France. He holds more than 120 patents in the field of communication and networking and has published more than 90 papers or contributions for standards.

Calvignac is a Fellow Member of the IEE (in Europe) and a Senior Member of the IEEE.