Re: Network Gear Seismic Tolerances

[Tim McKee <tim () baseworx net>]

Look at marine equipment specs.   They define vibration tolerances quite well.   Not my specialty, but I had brief 
exposure one time.  

Tim McKee
WN9Z

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> On Sep 15, 2020, at 21:00, Crist Clark <cjc+nanog () pumpky net> wrote:
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> I've been living and working in earthquake country for many years. The primary focus I've always encountered for 
> network gear is to make sure it is properly secured to the racks and the racks properly secured to the building (and 
> hope the building is well secured).
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> I'm working on a project now where we're doing seismic isolation for the servers. I think the main concern there is 
> spinning disks. The cabinets are effectively "floating," well, rolling really, on the data center floor. There are 
> various vendor solutions for this. Of course, the network gear living up close and personal with the servers is along 
> for the ride. That's all fine. I don't think it's a problem for the network gear.
>
> But now there are people with the idea that seismic isolation is the technology we need for all of our electronics, 
> down to network gear in IDRs. I am trying to find any real information about this, but Google-fu is not producing 
> results for me. I asked some of our vendor sales people, they said they'd get back, but never did. I don't know if 
> shake tolerances is something published for your typical data center and campus network gear.
>
> Anyone have some best practice info from some reliable sources or seen any shake tolerance data for network gear?