Five Nine's

A hardened and stable network

Network up-time is critical to any business's success, so much so that business leaders have zeroed in on finding vendors that can meet their rigorous up-time requirements. The 9's of availability are an important talking point of any managed service as they provide a specific metric of stability.

What do the 9's really mean?

Each managed service will provide it's customers with a Service Level Agreement (SLA) which stipulates the minimum up-time that their systems will be up and running throughout the year. Up-time reliability is usually expressed as a percentage of up-time; the more 9's the better. As an example, three 9's or 99.9% is less reliable than four 9's at 99.99%.

HOW MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE IS THIS REALLY?

The number of 9's significantly alter the agreed upon stability of the network.

Statistics

FIVE 9's translates to 100x less

The number of 9's significantly alter the agreed upon stability of the network.

This renders

To losses of $2,628,000 for three 9'S

As opposed

To $26,000 for five 9'S.

Estimated business loss

Unexpected downtime losses vary greatly due to a number of factors unique to each business. The day and time, as well as the impact of the issue itself add more variables to the losses. As downtime increases, potential losses can quickly spiral upwards