The costs of system downtime are well known. In today’s wired world, even a few minutes disruption of a critical telecommunications service can result in loss of millions of dollars and irreversible damage to customer relationships. Compact PCI high availability clusters provide solutions for database and network management that requires the highest availability possible from standards-based, open solutions.PCI hot-swap defines the ability to remove, add or replace hardware components and their associated software drivers without interrupting system operations.Hot swappability of boards, power supplies, disk drive modules, and fan trays takes a major bite out of planned downtime.
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