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About The Author
The author, Scott Kipp, is an electrical engineer in the high-speed communications industry since the early 90s. He has an eclectic range of experience from developing satellites at Hughes Aircraft in Santa Barbara, California to selling fiber optic cables from Taiwan. He has written two books and magazine articles on storage networking for the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA). Scott represents McDATA Corporation at American National Standards Institute meetings where he proposes software protocol standards and is an officer in several technical working groups. McDATA sells Fibre Channel switches and directors that work in the core of high-end data communication networks. Prior to arriving at McDATA, Scott was a product marketing engineer for Cielo Communications where he was the chairman of the FCIA’s Technology Roadmap committee. Cielo made gigabit-per-second, fiber optic transceivers that communicated over 100 kilometers. Scott also worked for a small fiber optic cabling company in the Hsinchu Science Based Industrial Park in Taiwan. In charge of international sales, he designed 860 MHz interactive cable networks for the entire nation of Malaysia. Scott has interests in computer animation, video production and imaging. He has traveled extensively and enjoys backpacking, hiking and ultimate Frisbee. He has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. He first studied fiber optics as a foreign exchange student at Kingston University in Kingston-Upon-Thames, England. Scott is planning a community where he can write more books and produce content to be distributed over the Internet. You can reach Scott at scott.kipp@broadent.com or at 303-906-3415.
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