How do the new redundancy and resiliency offers impact reliability?
If your goal is “to make assurance doubly sure,” these features add to your system’s reliability. However, system availability is in large measure a function software reliability. 3Com’s Networked Telephony Solutions all use Wind River ‘s real-time embedded operating system, VxWorks. It is the proven reliability of this UNIX-based software more so than hardware that impacts system availability.