But why did it take practically nine months for EMC to put the MDS switches through their paces? EMC is very careful. Goulden maintains that the certification timeframe is "fairly typical for a new product," adding that EMC has been pleased with how the MDS 9000 has performed in the lab.
Cisco, meanwhile, says there were only minor fixes necessary in the MDS 9000 switches to pass EMC's certification. "There was a misspelling in the CLI [command line interface]," says Cafiero by way of example. [Ed. note: If the misspelling was "Clariion," we can fully sympathize.]
Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch
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