Any device or communications line that has no redundancy is a single point of failure (SPOF). If it fails, the system stops. Every non-redundant component in a system is an SPOF. See fault ...

"An airport as large and as important as Heathrow should not be vulnerable to a single point of failure." However, Robin ...

The term, more generally, can also be referred to any component that is a single point of failure and whose breakdown would be catastrophic, with many connecting the term to the "only thing left ...

There are several crucial disadvantages to this approach, stemming from the fact that any central authority also plays the role of a single point of failure in the system: Any malfunction at the ...