September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
13h 16m
English
Network availability is the concept related to network service outages: it relates to the network design and engineering techniques used either to avoid such outages or to attenuate their impact when they are unavoidable. Although the term outage creates in our mind an association with failure or breakdown, an intentional stoppage also makes a service unavailable. For that reason, we talk about unscheduled (unplanned) as well as scheduled (planned) outages. Despite their predictability, the scheduled outages must equally be taken into account while describing network availability. They are counted as part of the 0.001 percent when the service contract requests 99.999 percent ...
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