Why does this matter operationally?
Resilience
The capacity of a connectivity system to maintain acceptable service levels when components fail, links degrade, or conditions change unexpectedly. Resilient architectures use redundancy, failover paths, and graceful degradation to keep operations running when ideal conditions cannot be guaranteed.
427 terms
Warm Standby System
Warm Standby System is a backup system that is partially initialized and ready to take over more quickly than a cold standby system. It is prepositioned for failover.
Operations
Watchdog Timer
Watchdog Timer is a timer that resets or triggers recovery actions if software or control logic fails to signal normal operation within a required interval.
Hardware
Wide Area Network
A WAN is a communications network that interconnects remote locations or systems over a broad geographic footprint using routed or carrier-provided transport.
Concept/Framework
Zero-Trust Architecture
Zero-trust architecture is a security architecture in which access is granted only after explicit verification of identity, context, and policy, with no default trust based on being inside the network.…
Concept/Framework