Mr Paul Congdon Profile

Paul Congdon is Chief Technologist of HP Networking and an HP Fellow, an elite employee recognized as pioneers of their fields. Responsible for specifying, architecting and designing network infrastructures and software products, Paul heads networking's worldwide security strategy. His 20+ years in the industry, has him widely esteemed as an inventor and leader in driving networking industry standards.
Congdon is the Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee, Technical Advisor for the IETF Radius Extensions Working Group, and his long-time activities with the IEEE 802 standards efforts involved him in the creation of the Ethernet LAN. As the HP representative, Paul has been directly involved in the development of Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA), HPâ?Ts approach to management of virtual switches in the data center. He is co-inventor of the TCP checksum offloading, a programme for accelerating the networking performance of TCP/IP within servers. He architected the method of distributing networking software onto multiple processors, enabling switch software to scale between low-cost, single-chip solutions and high-end, multi-modular chassis systems.
After completing internships with IBM, Congdon joined HP in 1985 as a Software Development Engineer responsible for the creation of networking protocols. He expanded to infrastructure architecture, and has been involved in the design of a range of network devices and technologies, including routers, Layer 2/3/4 switches, iSCSI storage devices, Ethernet, wireless LANs, virtual LANs, link aggregation and access security protocols, including IEEE 802.1X.
Congdon earned Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, and Master of Science degrees in computer science from California State University.