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Re: pic: Power Over Ethernet for 2017

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Originally Posted by otherguy View Post
but you have increased the number of failure points ......... So reliability has actually gone down.
While the number of potential failure points has increased, the likelihood of a failure of any one of those points has decreased. Hence, the overall reliability has increased.

In our solution, we are powering both ways. So the risk of failure of the original path is unchanged, but now there is a second path that has to independently fail.
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