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Cisco Networking Simplified, Second Edition
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Cisco Networking Simplified, Second Edition

by Jim Doherty, Neil Anderson, Paul Della Maggiora
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 36m
English
Cisco Press
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Chapter . High Availability

Designing networks for high availability

  • Prevents financial loss

  • Prevents productivity loss

  • Reduces reactive support costs

  • Improves customer satisfaction and loyalty

Network availability (often called “high availability”) is the design and measurement of a network in terms of accessibility of network services. The network must be available for people to access the services on it. High availability simply refers to the desire to have the network available all the time, or as close to all the time as possible. Network uptime is the term used to describe the availability of the network.

As networks have migrated from mainframe-based client/server models to hybrid distributed networks (both client/server and peer-to-peer), measuring ...

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