[1177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: outages, quality monitoring, trouble tickets, etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Heiliger)
Mon Nov 27 14:45:11 1995
From: "Jonathan Heiliger" <loco@mfst.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 11:11:00 -0800
In-Reply-To: Sean Doran <smd@chops.icp.net>
"Re: outages, quality monitoring, trouble tickets, etc" (Nov 27, 9:17am)
To: Sean Doran <smd@chops.icp.net>
Cc: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@netrail.net>, nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 27, 9:17am, Sean Doran wrote:
> Jonathan> Everyone likes to portray
> Jonathan> the image of having a 99.98% uptime whenever
> Jonathan> possible, even though most folks realize
> Jonathan> that it just plain isn't possible
>
> Well, more importantly, what on earth does a number like
> that mean?
Sorry, bad choice of words. Rather than uptime, availability would be the
proper word. Availability tends to be the amount of time the network is
"available" for the customer to receive their expected service (whether
guaranteed in writing or not), and for the customers expectation of how the
service will perform when it is considered "in-service" is met.
-jh-
