Network Resilience Audit Service

Network Resilience Audit Service A. Foster, R. J. Proctor and P. A. Smith Overview Many organisations need communications with a guaranteed level of service. A resilient service requires a resilient network. Resilience of individual com-ponents of a network cannot guarantee resilience of the network as a whole. The network resilience audit service identifies the failure modes of resilient networks. This paper highlights some of them. © Copyright A.Foster, R.J.Proctor, P.A.Smith 2002 www.discoveryconsultancy.com/services/nras ƒƒƒƒNetwork Resilience Audit Service Introduction The Problem The Solution Many organisations require resil- In an ideal world, with boundless ient communications. Some try to capacity and a workforce with the provide this by using resilient all the time in the world, there are components, but this does not many ways of ensuring that diver-address the real problem. The true gence is always delivered and answer is network resilience, maintained. However, we do not which requires network diversity. live in a perfect world. Rather, the Is the diversity real? Will it work workforce is fully employed doing when something breaks? their day-to-day tasks. So, what can be done? The Network Resilience Resilience comes at a price; Audit Service can aid users and where the cost of a failure is high, providers of network resilience ser-duplication may not be as good as ...