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Re: rack rails


From: Coy Hile <coy.hile () coyhile com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:31:59 -0400



On Mar 30, 2020, at 5:24 PM, Karsten Elfenbein <karsten.elfenbein () gmail com> wrote:

Hi,

something like https://www.opencompute.org/projects/rack-and-power
comes into my mind for that.
Mounting on 4 posts should be the default. It is insane what some
vendors want to mount on 2 posts only.


That brings up an interesting question. As I understand it, the penchant for two-post mounts come from what are at 
least colloquially termed telco racks that are or were common when you had tons of modem banks and such. Are such 
mounts — much like DC power — still quite common in the service provider space, or do most use more or less normal 
racks? (That said, the 750mm wide (29.5in) racks that actually have room for high density cables inside the rack seem 
much more useful for a networking application than the 600mm wide version.)



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