3/09/2009

Carrier-Grade: Five Nines, the Myth and the Reality

It's pretty interesting issue about so called "fine nines" concept. 



What is the hard fast requirement for Carrier-Grade?  Is “five-nines” or 99.999% up 
or 0.99999 available a hard, fast requirement of telecommunications or is it the 
telecommunications equivalent of an Urban Myth?
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www.pipelinepub.com/0407/pdf/Article%204_Carrier%20Grade_LTC.pdf