MTBF is the time elapsed between one failure and the other. MTBF is applied for IT components or systems that are repairable. For example, in MTBF, broken assets like mobile phones, laptops, server stacks are repaired.
<
p > < b > MTTF < /b> is the average time it takes for a failure to occur and the damaged asset to be replaced. For example, hardware assets like a broken LAN cable clip or a broken switch are replaced because the cost to replace is less than the cost to repair.