Chris McGugan Profile

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June 24 - 25

ITF 2009

Stanford University, CA


General Information


Name:	Chris McGugan
Company:	Cisco Systems
Title:	Director of Academic Research & Technology team
Profile:	Chris McGugan is the Director of Cisco's Academic Research & Technology team. His team focuses on identifying key technologies and researchers around the globe for Cisco to collaborate with. Also his team is responsible for engineering, and support for Cisco's focus on National Research Networks (NRENs). Chris is actively involved in standardization of Ethernet technologies, including EFM (IEEE 802.3ah), Metro Ethernet, and 10GE solutions. He was also involved in the standardization of ATM and related ISDN signaling protocols. Chris leads a number of research programs in the area of optical control planes and optical burst switching technologies.

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