> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andres Paglayan > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:06 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Teliax Quality of Service > > > On Aug 6, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Stephen Bosch wrote: > > > Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: > >> Douglas Garstang wrote: > >>> Let's assume for a moment that it's impossible. That does not > >>> mean adding additional servers and additional networking > >>> equipment does not add value, or is a worthless endeavour. > >> > >> I agree with that. At least two people that I know run ITSPs. Each > >> time they have an outage (which is not very often) they DO learn from > >> the experience and work to avoid a future outage cause by the same > >> issue. > >> > >> You would be surprised at how many little things can cause an outage. > > > > My own experience is that increasing "failover redundancy", which adds > > correspondingly increasing complexity, also increases the odds of > > an outage. > > > > It is very rare that failover redundancy works as intended during an > > actual failover, no matter how many times you simulate it. > > > > I would rather have a simple network design where the cause of > > failure, > > when it happens, is obvious and quickly corrected. For example, I > > would > > rather have replacement parts on the shelf and be able to slap them in > > quickly than be running hot standbys and paying for the > > electricity, and > > then have the thing break anyway when there's a failure. > > > > I'll second that, > specially for smaller installations,
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