[113184] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Beckman)
Mon Apr 6 15:11:07 2009
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:06:10 -0400
From: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <8034EE7F-FACC-45A4-B5AE-1D9B53C18D43@hopcount.ca>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Joe Abley wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?
Probably be cheaper to get shock-tolerant packing crates and use normal
cabinets. You'll probably learn a few hard lessons the first time around
-- should have put in styrofoam wedges between servers, or the rackmounts
you used didn't hold up to shipping, or your shipper isn't as careful as
they said they'd be -- but with the right packing crates and shipping
partner, it's doable.
Plus the crates can be re-used, lowering your costs.
Beckman
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