Fwd: RE: Network Reliability Engineering

Sun May 19 01:34:39 UTC 2002


>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.