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McDATA Standards Engineer Out with New Book on Fibre Channel Advances.


BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA FCIA

See: Foreign Credit Insurance Association
) today release "Fibre Channel Advances," the latest book from McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) Standards Engineer and industry authority Scott Kipp. The book describes new standards for Fibre Channel and practical solutions that are taking Fibre Channel to greater levels of productivity.

"This book is a reflection of the developments I've personally seen in working with a number of industry associations as well as daily customer contacts with many of the world's most advanced SAN environments," said Scott Kipp, McDATA Standards Engineer. "The book details new advancements that will further enrich the Fibre Channel architecture, providing administrators with even more powerful Fibre Channel networking tools."

Kipp represents McDATA in the ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC.  T11 Technical Committee that develops Fibre Channel standards Fibre Channel
2005
  • FC-SATA (under development)
  • FC-PI-2 INCITS 404
2004
  • FC-SP ANSI INCITS 1570-D
  • FC-GS-4 (Fibre Channel Generic Servies)ANSI INCITS 387.
. In addition to his work with ANSI, he has developed standards in multiple other organizations including the Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the  (IETF), Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee and Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA  (SNIA).

Scott Kipp has written three books on storage networking, one book of broadband entertainment and numerous magazine articles over the course of his career. He has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University This article is about the university in San Luis Obispo, California. For Cal Poly Pomona, see California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

California Polytechnic State University, commonly called Cal Poly
 in San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l`ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. , CA.

Scott will be signing copies of his book at the Storage World Conference Wednesday, June 21, from noon until 3 pm at the FCIA booth (#131).

About McDATA (www.mcdata.com)

McDATA (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT) is the leading provider of storage networking solutions, helping customers build, globally connect, optimize and centrally manage data infrastructures across SAN, MAN and WAN environments. With nearly 25 years experience developing SAN products, services and solutions, McDATA is the trusted partner in the world's largest data centers, connecting more than two-thirds of all networked data.
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