Ausfall der Außenanbindung

English translation: failure of the external power connection

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German term or phrase:Ausfall der Außenanbindung
English translation:failure of the external power connection
Entered by: Steffen Walter

11:18 Mar 30, 2007
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Internet, e-Commerce / managed hosting
German term or phrase: Ausfall der Außenanbindung
This is in an article about managed and server hosting

Die stromeinspeisung erfolgt redundant und kann auch bei ausfall der aussenanbindung ohne unterbrechung weiterbetrieben werden:
My attempt: The power input is therefore redundant and even in the case of external connection power failure, the system can still be operated without interruption
Sian Herrera-Delgado
Local time: 23:56
failure of the external power connection
Explanation:
Just a restructuring of the word order to get away from the German-style 'nominalization'.

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Note added at 34 mins (2007-03-30 11:52:48 GMT)
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Or: "even if the external power connection fails"

(to avoid "in [the] case of failure of" which might seem awkward to some with two instances of "of")
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rjbemben
Local time: 19:56
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3 +2failure of the external power connection
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ausfall der aussenanbindung
failure of the external power connection


Explanation:
Just a restructuring of the word order to get away from the German-style 'nominalization'.

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Note added at 34 mins (2007-03-30 11:52:48 GMT)
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Or: "even if the external power connection fails"

(to avoid "in [the] case of failure of" which might seem awkward to some with two instances of "of")

rjbemben
Local time: 19:56
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thank you!
Notes to answerer
Asker: oh please, Marcus, let's not be quite so pedantic!


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