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Instruction
Relating to Fiber Channel
Horst has extensive
experience in the field of Fibre
Channel (FC). He is uniquely
qualified to instruct anyone
interested in learning more about
computer interfaces. He has taught FC,
SATA, SAS classes to over 3000
engineers/programmers/managers
world-wide.
While working at IBM, he was a
consulting engineer to large systems
and a senior program manager. He was
the IBM principal voting member on the
current INCITS T11 standards committee
from 1985-1997. During that time, he
was the editor of:
- "IPI-3 Command Set for Optical and
Magnetic Disk" (IPI-3-Disk)
- "Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop"
(FC-AL)
- "Fibre Channel Audio/Visual" FC-AV
- Co-Authored a book on
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop.
He has also assisted in multiple
industry and IBM task forces in the
areas of magnetic and optical disks,
peripheral interfaces, and Fibre
Channel. Horst continues to be active
on the T11 committee and has been the
US delegate to ISO for INCITS T11, and
has been a facilitator and secretary
of various sub-groups.
Consulting
Horst's broad consulting
experience includes patent
infringement litigation support and
consulting with large data centers
(see also Robert Dubke at Data
Center Brokers). Horst
has also advised many companies
regarding INCITS T11 standards, loop switch
and protocol chip design, RAID, ANSI
interface standards: IPI, HIPPI, FC,
and SAS/SATA.
Horst is well known in the industry
and has a knack for getting things
done. He also uses his wide network of
industry contacts as a referral
source. If he can't advise you
directly, he will put you in touch
with someone who can.
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