A switch model a warehouse plans to buy averages a long time between failures. Which figure states that property?
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Short Explanation
Mean time between failures is the average stretch of honest work between breakdowns. You want that number high when a switch model tends to run a long time before it fails. A low number means the opposite, and a fast repair is a different average from a rare failure.
Full Explanation
Mean time between failures is the average operating time between one failure and the next. A switch that averages a long time between failures is described by a high mean time between failures. A low figure is the reversed reading. People treat a small number as a long gap, and a small mean time between failures means the model fails more often. Mean time to repair is the average time required to restore service after a failure. A low repair time means the outage is short once it starts. It says nothing about how often the outage starts, so describing a fast repair as rarity of failure swaps the two averages. A recovery point objective is how much data, measured in time, the business can afford to lose. It is not a hardware reliability statistic. Exam caveat: a high mean time between failures does not promise that this particular unit will last that long. Operational check: read the model's figure on the data sheet, confirm it is mean time between failures rather than mean time to repair, and keep the repair-time target on a separate line.