MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

An indicator of component or system reliability based on the

known failure rate calculated as the average period of time, expressed in hours, between total breakdowns.

• Bell System
• Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs)
• bend diameter
• bending loss
• bend radius
• bent pipe
• BER (Bit Error Rate)
• Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (BIND)
• Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (“Tim”) John (1955–)
• best effort
• best-effort ATM
• beta
• B Excess Burst Size
• BFT (Binary File Transfer)
• BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)
• BHCAs (Busy Hour Call Attempts)
• BHCCs (Busy Hour Call Completions)
• BHT (Busy Hour Traffic)
• BHT (Busy Hour Traffic)
• B-ICI (B-ISDN InterCarrier Interface)
• B-ICI (B-ISDN InterCarrier Interface)
• BICSI
• bi-endian
• big-endian
• big iron