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Hosting Failover Question

  • From: James DeMong
  • Date: Wed Jun 06 12:38:42 2001 
I am looking for a Rule of Thumb on failover for hosting, mostly
tcp(webserver), some udp (audio/video streaming) stuff.
My thought is that 5 seconds to failover when a network
element(switch/router/load balancer/FW) fails is reasonable.

How many seconds is reasonable for fail over in such a situation?

Thanks in advance.
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James DeMong
Network Design Specialist
TELUS Advanced Communications
Phone: (403) 503-3718
Email: [email protected]