[46627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quick Question on Industry Standard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (K. Graham)
Sat Apr 6 17:36:21 2002
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From: "K. Graham" <kgraham@rogers.com>
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To: "Sameer R. Manek" <manek@ecst.csuchico.edu>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:35:34 -0500
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Thanks for the info Sameer but I do not work at Rogers :)) . I was a nocling but Rogers did not pick us up.
I work with a private company now :))
>
> Since you work at rogers, subscriber minutes is probably the preferred
> measurement. Since an individual service outage is not likely to have a
> significant impact on that regions total user base.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > K. Graham
> > Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 3:26 AM
> > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: Quick Question on Industry Standard
> >
> > >From my understanding there is a 99.97% up time value that most
> >
> > companies try
> > and match. Is this a hard and fast rule or is this a value that
> > we all try
> > and emulate as best as we can? Do I have the value incorrect?
> > Is it higher
> > or lower? I had always thought that it was 99.97% but have not found
> > anywhere to reference that figure, it was just via talking with
> > others and
> > checking available uptime statistics. My understanding also takes into
> > account that it does not include controlled downtime due to any
> > maintenances.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Kim
