Standards Leadership

As the industry leader in data center networking, Brocade is committed to helping organizations realize the most value from their technology investments. Brocade delivers open, standards-based solutions to promote interoperability and provide the investment protection and flexibility to choose best-in-class data center fabric components.

In addition to educating the market on storage networking solutions, Brocade continues to further standards development, and facilitate end-to-end interoperability in heterogeneous environments.

Brocade also continues to invest in new technologies and substantial research and development to remain at the forefront of the industry. Ongoing investments in interoperability labs and solutions testing reflect a strong commitment to open, flexible, and standards-based products.

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T11 Technical Committee (ANSI INCITS)
T11 is the governing body for all Fibre Channel related standards. Brocade plays an active role in several standards workgroups including 10 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel, security, and switch management, and has authored or co-authored many of the ANSI T11 Fibre Channel Standards.

• Bob Snively, Brocade Principal Engineer, is overall Chair of the T11 Technical Committee.
• Steve Wilson, Director Technology & Standards Engineering, is the Editor of FC-SW-4 standard and facilitator for the FC-BB-3 working group
• Ed McClanahan, Principal Engineer, is Editor of the FAIS standard for fabric applications

10 Gigabit Small Form Factor Pluggable (XFP) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) Group
Bob Snively Chairs the XFP MSA Industry Association.

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) SNIA is a not-for-profit organization committed to delivering standards, education, and services to advance open storage networking solutions into the marketplace.

• Steve Wilson is a member of the SNIA Technical Committee. John Crandall is chair of the SNIA Fibre Channel Technical Work Group.
• John Crandall is the Brocade representative on the SMI Technical Work Group and SNIA Liaison to the DMTF.
• Tom Clark is a SNIA board member and chair of the SNIA Green Storage Initiative.

Data Management Task Force (DMTF)
The DMTF, developer of the CIM standard, is the industry organization leading the development, adoption, and interoperability of management standards for enterprise and Internet environments.

• John Crandall is a member of the DMTF Technical Council and the Vice-Chair of the DMTF Systems and Device Working Group.