[47935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Fwd: RE: Network Reliability Engineering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blitz)
Sat May 18 21:35:49 2002
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Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 21:34:39 -0400
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From: blitz <blitz@macronet.net>
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>AHH, MTBF date from vendors....well, there goes the idea of THAT project.
>You'll find that data, IF you can find it, will be calculated by sales
>cretins, not engineers.
>Check out this book:
>
> "High-Availability Network Fundamentals"
> Cisco Press
> ISBN 1-58713-017-3
>
>Despite its Cisco Press origin, the book is 99% vendor-neutral and applies
>to any equipment. It helps you calculate MTBF-based availability of entire
>network paths, factoring in various types of redundancy. You're on your own
>collecting actual MTBF data from vendors, but this book may help you put it
>together into something sensible.