availability
Sign in to saveIn reliability engineering, the term availability has the following meanings:
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In reliability engineering, the term availability has the following meanings: The degree to which a system, subsystem or equipment is in a specified operable and committable state at the start of a mission, when the mission is called for at an unknown, i.e. a random, time. The probability that an item will operate satisfactorily at a given point in time when used under stated conditions in an ideal support environment.
Normally high availability systems might be specified as 99.98%, 99.999% or 99.9996%. The converse, unavailability, is 1 minus the availability.
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