Fwd: RE: Network Reliability Engineering

[blitz <blitz () macronet net>]

> 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.