
N4N044: Redundancy Vs. High Availability Part 2 – HA Networking Isn’t Free
From N Is For Networking by Packet Pushers
December 4, 2025 · 56 min · Episode 44
About this episode
The episode discusses the differences between redundancy and high availability in networking.
In Part 1 of Redundancy vs. High Availability, we said that sometimes high availability and redundancy are considered to be the same thing, but we disagree. Holly and Ethan do agree that high availability can be considered a network design goal, and that redundancy is just one technique that can be used to help make ... Read more »
People in this episode
Hosts: Holly, Ethan
Topics covered
- high availability
- redundancy
- network design
- networking techniques
- network reliability
Keywords
- high availability
- redundancy
- network design
- networking
- network reliability
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