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Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's



On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:21:24AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

> I once worked for a company that produced software for telephone
> systems where the requirement was six nines uptime, that is at most 30
> seconds downtime a year. Interesting stuff - at that level you get
> into having multiple redundant devices constantly sharing all their
> state which can hot-failover within a couple of seconds.

That I love to see.  I'm so tired of PBX outages.

> On the telephone system the uptime level is a government requirement,
> at least in the US. 

Maybe at the carrier level, but not at the PBX level.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins



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