System Powering Architectures -Part 3: Design Considerations for Fault Tolerant, High Availability Systems

摘要

One of the major emerging market drivers for equipment that processes, stores, and transmits data is availability of service. Although this has been a requirement in the telecom network for decades, it is a relatively new requirement for data center equipment. The rapid growth of the Internet and associated data traffic has resulted in the well-documented convergence to integrated, IP-based communication networks. As voice and data traffic continue to grow on these networks, quality and availability of service are becoming significant issues. The end result is a drive toward high availability for all equipment attached to the network.