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To: Marc Hyman who wrote (36153)	2/24/1998 3:12:00 AM
From: sepku	Respond to of 61433

>>>Now the Cisco release mentions 99.999 percent availability. That translates to about 5 minutes of down time per year. Not bad you may think. Ok, lets assume each box is down 5 minutes a year. With 500 boxes that averages to a box going down every 3/4 of a day.<<< Not to mention that CSCO's claim accounts for optimal lab conditions, rather than real-world. Remember that RAS evaluation (the largest and most thorough ever conducted under real-world conditions) by Dataquest a few months ago? All the vendors' products fell short of their claims...and if I remember correctly, it was Shiva's product that performed the best. Style Pts.