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Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Apr 6 15:41:57 2009

From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904061502510.27574@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:34:57 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Joe Abley wrote:

> Anybody here have experience shipping pre-built cabinets, with ~20U  
> of routers and servers installed, connected and tested, to remote  
> sites for deployment?


How tall are the doors in the destination datacenter?

How much weight can be rolled over the raised floor?

How high up are the cable trays in the aisles?

Etc., etc.

Sometimes things which are not obvious, and not about technology, are  
still important.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick



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