Never Underestimate the Importance of a Cold Spare…or Two
We’ve all been there — screaming at a lifeless network part while continually restarting it in hopes of a miraculous technological resurrection.
And while it’s one thing to have a component fail on a desktop or office printer (printing out those TPS reports on another floor does suck,) it’s another to have a dead part take down your entire network for the day--or even for a few minutes.
A whole lot of people are using the word “redundant” incorrectly. Unique individual? Redundant. Advance planning? Redundant. Two powers in a Juniper MX480 chassis? NOT redundant. For full redundancy in the larger MX units, you’re going to have to have all the power slots populated. Here’s how it works.
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