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Mark Nowell

Distinguished Engineer

Data Center Switching

Mark Nowell is a Distinguished Engineer in Cisco’s Data Center Switching team. His focus is on next generation interconnect technology innovation to meet Cisco's needs. Mark is also active within the industry standards and forums and has chaired multiple IEEE 802.3 Ethernet projects. He represents Cisco on the Boards of the Ethernet Alliance and the Consortium of On Board Optics (COBO). Mark also chairs a number of industry MSA (Multi-source Agreement) groups focusing on next generation optical module form factors (QSFP-DD) and optical interface signaling technology (100G Lambda MSA, 400G BiDi MSA).

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March 6, 2019

DATA CENTER

In Praise of the QSFP – from 40GbE to 400GbE and Beyond

The networking industry is currently testing 400GbE products and is already looking forward to how the next generation will be built. The past few years were full of industry debate around the “right” pluggable form factor for 400GbE. However, that debate seems to have ended, resulting in nearly eve…

September 24, 2018

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DATA CENTER

Cisco Makes Terabit Scale Ethernet Networking a Reality with 400 GbE Technology

The IEEE came to a consensus to develop 400 Gigabit Ethernet technology in 2012. In those six years since, the demand for bandwidth has never slowed due to use cases such as cloud networking. Cisco has been tracking this rapid uptick in storage and networking bandwidth through the Cisco Global Cloud…