The FCIA continues: "Ultimately, a problem that is only seen during simulation, but cannot be reproduced using publicly available networking gear, is not really a problem. After all, if an end user is never going to encounter a specific problem, why bother addressing it?"
It's worth pointing out that three members of the FCIA -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A), Finisar Corp. (Nasdaq: FNSR), and I-Tech Corp. -- are Spirent's direct competitors in the SAN testing market. Needless to say, Spirent is not a member of the FCIA.
Other FCIA member companies include Cisco, Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD), EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC), Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM), JNI Corp. (Nasdaq: JNIC), McData Corp. (Nasdaq: MCDTA), Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), and QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq: QLGC).
The FCIA notes that traffic generators such as Spirent's SRT have their place in testing, especially during product development cycles. But it also says that until Spirent can validate its claims, "it is best that we simply view their comments as a misguided marketing attempt trying to talk companies into trying/using Spirent test products."
Spirent officials did not respond to requests for comment on the FCIA's statement.
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