Scott G. Kipp is an author and engineer who participates in industry organizations, develops standards and writes books as a Senior Technologist at Brocade. He is an expert on networking, including protocols, fiber optic links and cable management.
Scott has worked on a number of industry associations including:
- The Ethernet Alliance – Kipp is Brocade’s primary representative to the EA and has spoken at two TEFs and participated in the Power over Ethernet, High Speed Ethernet and Ethernet in the Data Center technical committees.
- The Fibre Channel Industry Association – Kipp was the chair of the Fibre Channel Roadmap Committee and is actively involved in driving the various activities of the association. Scott has written three books for the FCIA on Fibre Channel technologies and written several white papers and given presentations at conferences on Fibre Channel technologies.
- Storage Networking Industry Association – Kipp has staged interoperability events, spoken at SNW and developed storage management standards in this organization.
Scott works on many standards committees including:
- IEEE 802.3 standards including 802.3ba where he played a key role in adding the 40 Gb/s speed in addition to 100 Gb/s Ethernet
- Optical Interconnect Forum where he is defining the Common Electrical Interface that will be used in the second generation of 100 GbE
- Chair of the 10×10 MSA to define a low cost 100 GbE single-mode link
- Chair and Editor of the Quad SFP (QSFP) MSA that developed the first pluggable 40 Gb/s transceiver standard that can be found at www.qsfpmsa.net
- T11 Technical Committee for Fibre Channel Interfaces where he was Vice-Chair of T11.5 Task Group and has been editor, chair and secretary for multiple standards including FC-MI, FC-SWAPI, FC-BB and FC-DA
- Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) where he authored two MIBs
- The SFF Committee that defined the SFP+, IFP and QSFP+