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A [[prediction]] of reliability is an important element in the process of selecting equipment for use by [[telecommunications]] [[service providers]] and other buyers of [[electronic equipment]]. Reliability is a measure of the [[frequency]] of equipment failures as a function of time. [[wikt:reliability|Reliability]] has a major impact on maintenance and repair costs and on the continuity of service.<ref>Terry Donovan, Senior Systems Engineer Telcordia Technologies. Member of Optical Society of America, IEEE, "Automated Reliability Prediction, SR-332, Issue 3", January 2011; "Automated Reliability Prediction (ARPP), FD-ARPP-01, Issue 11", January 2011</ref>

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* Importance of Reliability prediction

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== Definition of reliability ==

A practical definition of reliability is “the probability that a piece of equipment operating under specified conditions shall perform satisfactorily for a given period of time”. The reliability is a number between 0 and 1.