Redundancës

Redundancës is the Albanian term for redundancy, referring to the presence of extra elements beyond what is strictly necessary. It can describe the repetition of information, or the duplication of components or resources intended to increase reliability, fault tolerance, or clarity. While redundancy can enhance robustness, unnecessary duplication can reduce efficiency and raise costs.

In linguistics and communication, redundancy denotes information that is not strictly needed to convey a message but helps comprehension or resilience against errors. In information theory, redundancy is the portion of data that exceeds the minimum required to encode the signal; it is exploited in error detection, correction, and data compression.

In engineering and information technology, redundancy is the deliberate duplication of critical elements to maintain operation during failures. Examples include redundant power supplies, multiple network paths, RAID storage, and failover clusters. Designers weigh reliability gains against added cost, complexity, and maintenance, and distinguish essential redundancy from superfluous duplication that offers little practical benefit.