Full Active Redundancy: Standby Redundancy:

1. The means of sensing

that a failure has occurred
and for switching from the
defective to the standby unit
is assumed to be failure
free.

2.
The standby unit(s) are
assumed to have identical,
constant failure rates to the
main unit.

3.
The standby units are
assumed not to fail while in
the idle state.

4.
As with the earlier
calculation of active
redundancy, defective units
are assumed to remain so.
No repair is effected until
the system has failed.

1.
The means of sensing that
a failure has occurred and
for switching from the
defective to the standby unit
is assumed to be failure
free.

2.
The standby unit(s) are
assumed to have identical,
constant failure rates to the
main unit.

3.
The standby units are
assumed not to fail while in
the idle state.

4.
As with the earlier
calculation of active
redundancy, defective units
are assumed to remain so.
No repair is effected until
the system has failed.