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TABLE 1: Uptime Institute definitions of tier levels
 Tier ITier IITier IIITierIV
Number of delivery pathsOnly 1Only 11 Active, 1 Passive2 Active
RedundancyNN+1N+1S+S or 2(N+1)
CompartmentalisationNoNoNoYes
Concurrently maintainableNoNoYesYes
Fault tolerance to worst eventNoneNoneNoneYes