Chapter 9. Network High-Availability Design

Business application and service availability considerations in today’s modern converged networks have become a vital design element, especially now that many businesses understand the IT network’s availability impact and cost to the organization, whether it is an enterprise or service provider network. Practically, the cost of a service downtime due to a network outage can take different forms: tangible, intangible, or a combination of both. Some of the common losses that can be caused by network downtime (which normally impact the business either directly or indirectly) are as follows:

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