Reference Material - Motorola SB5101 Reference Manual

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Motorola has shipped over 20 million modems since 1996 and has monitored the actual in service
failure rate over that time. The results are summarised below:
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SB2100
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After 12 months and more than 93k units shipped, the SB2100 has an AFFR of
<.97%, and an actual MTBF of 95 years
•
SB3100
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After 24 months and more than 1.6M units shipped, the SB3100 has an AFFR
of <.5%, and an actual MTBF of 225 years
•
SB4100
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After 20 months and more than 3.4M units shipped, the SB4100 product has
an AFFR of <.19%, and an actual MTBF of 514 years
•
SB4200
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After 12 months and more than 4M units shipped, the SB4200 product had an
AFFR of <.08%, and an actual MTBF of 525 years
•
SB5100
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After 6 months and more than 3M units shipped, the SB5100 product has an
AFFR of <.005%, and an actual MTBF of over 525 years
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