Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > A warranty is what the manufacturer is telling you is how long we > are going to GAMBLE that the thing will last. This is a huge difference > because the manufacturer knows that if they use crap parts, they > are going to get all of the failures back, and they will pay for > this, whereas they won't get any offsetting benefit for the devices > that greatly exceed the warranty period. (assuming a standard bell > curve applies to device failures, which it generally does)
Actually, hardware failures generally follow a "bathtub curve", almost an inverse bell curve. There is a certain amount of infant mortality where substandard parts will fail immediately or shortly after installation, bad connections and other mechanical and assembly issues are discovered or fail in transit, etc. Then relatively few failures for a long time, and then a gradual ramping up of failures as things wear out, capacitors dry up, etc. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
