Can You Have Too Much Redundancy?Can You Have Too Much Redundancy?

Terry Slattery, who's CTO at NetCordia, has a nice hard-core tech blog about network management, configuration and troubleshooting, and he recently did a couple of posts on the issue of redundancy. Interestingly, he writes that one problem that some enterprises encounter is that they build too much redundancy into their networks.

Terry Slattery, who's CTO at NetCordia, has a nice hard-core tech blog about network management, configuration and troubleshooting, and he recently did a couple of posts on the issue of redundancy. Interestingly, he writes that one problem that some enterprises encounter is that they build too much redundancy into their networks.Terry writes: "The key to good network design is to design specific redundancy, know where the failure paths will be and make sure that both paths have the same performance and security implementation."

One of the things that came up in our webinar last week on VOIP WAN management is that, no matter how often you hear it, it never hurts to hear one more time that you've got to do a network assessment before you try to roll out IP-telephony at scale.

So Terry Slattery's insight here is that not only to you have to build the right network out of the right pieces, but you've got to configure it the right way.