[c-nsp] MTBF for Cisco products

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Wed Nov 28 01:45:47 EST 2007


Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> For a $20K device you better damn well understand it IS low.
> 
> Name me one single automaker out there who could get away with
> building a car that would stop running after 4.5 years.
> 
> Even the disk drive manufacturers - Seagate for one - warranty
> their stuff longer.  And it has moving parts!
> 

Maybe the MTBF includes chassis fans... sometimes they eat it early.

~Seth


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