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shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site
From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:46:35 -0400
Hi all,Anybody here have experience shipping pre-built cabinets, with ~20U of routers and servers installed, connected and tested, to remote sites for deployment?
The idea is to increase the consistency of the deployments by having them all built in one place by the same set of people, and to reduce the amount of time required by warm bodies on-site (bodies that would otherwise have to receive individual components and install/cable them).
We've located a few vendors who sell shock-tolerant cabinets, but they're expensive and seem to me to be aimed at people who need to ship a set of equipment frequently (e.g. to support movie shoots, outside broadcasts, etc), rather than people who want to ship just once.
The destination in all cases would be a commercial, modern data centre. The equipment would be shipped from LA.
Do I even need to spend time wondering about shock-tolerant cabinets, or should I instead be concentrating on finding the right company to wrap the cabinets for shipping, and to do the shipping itself?
Joe
Current thread:
- shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Joe Abley (Apr 06)
- RE: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Richard Golodner (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Peter Beckman (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Bill Woodcock (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Lamar Owen (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Justin M. Streiner (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Patrick W. Gilmore (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Leo Bicknell (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Darren Bolding (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Owen DeLong (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Matthew Kaufman (Apr 06)
(Thread continues...)