Network Reliability Task Force
(PRQC-REL)

Mission

The Network Reliability Task Force develops and recommends standards, technical requirements and technical reports to foster the requirements and measurement of survivable, highly reliable, high availability telecommunication networks. Areas addressed include the requirements and measurement of: reliability, availability, robustness, security and traffic management techniques to protect network services from not only the traditional causes of service outages such as equipment failures, procedural errors and the environment, but also cyber-attacks, site sabotage and traffic overloads.

Scope

The Network Reliability Task Force focuses on the reliability and survivability of both public and private telecommunications networks, e.g., carriers (local, long distance, Internet), residential customers, government agencies, educational and medical institutions, as well as business and financial customers. The network survivability design and measurement definitions and methodologies developed can be used by (i) network providers to help assess survivability techniques and evaluate the survivability of their networks, (ii) network providers and suppliers to measure and assess network reliability and availability, and by (iii) regulatory bodies and industry fora to aid in establishing network survivability, reliability, availability, and corresponding objectives.

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