# RF Industry Icon: Nick McKeown, 2025 Marconi Prize Winner

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Podcast: [Microwave Journal Podcasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/microwave-journal-podcasts-988340)
Published: 2026-01-20T14:11:51+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasts.microwavejournal.com/e/rf-industry-icon-nick-mckeown-inventor-of-software-defined-networking-2025-marconi-prize-winner/
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## Resource

Professor Nick McKeown, the 2025 Marconi Prize winner, which is often called the “Nobel Prize for Communications”, talks with Pat Hindle and Del Pierson about his fundamental contributions to high-performance switches and routers, and software defined networking, and transferring these contributions into widespread practice.

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