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• The Cost of Network Downtime

  I was doing some research on the costs and causes of network downtime and came across a more recent white paper than the information from 2001 that I had previously found. This paper, The Impact of Network Downtime on Business Today , was done in 2007... Posted Jul 28 2010, 09:13 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: Featured, SLA, ROI, network downtime, Service Level Agreement

• Reachability SLA and SNMP Data Collection

  Some network management systems track reachability by pinging network devices. In fact, at a Networkers a few years ago, the Cisco IT team talked about using 5 second pings to measure network availability (what I prefer to call reachability) in the Cisco... Posted Jun 13 2009, 02:09 PM by tslattery with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: reports, high availability, Featured, SLA, reachability

• Network SLA Methodologies

  My prior post about SLAs described calculation methodologies. But what data must be collected for those calculations and what's a useful calculation methodology? A business with high availability requirements may prefer an SLA that measures connectivity... Posted Apr 27 2009, 09:44 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: Featured, SLA, downtime

• Network SLAs - Which one to use?

  Scott Hogg just did a post on his Network World Blog that mentioned SLAs (Service Level Agreements). It is a very timely article for me because I'm working with a customer who wants to define network SLAs. The task becomes one of selecting an appropriate... Posted Apr 24 2009, 11:13 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: network world, Featured, SLA