[113200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Mon Apr 6 18:04:15 2009
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:51:39 -0700
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090406213330.GK29526@ronin.4ever.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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> Sending that one full rack has proven successful for us, but that
> was specialists with some experience, and it was road only. Every
> time I see suitcases being thrown around in airports...well...
>
Baggage handlers have nothing on FedEX folks. They literally hurl
packages into the truck like baseballs. I used to work for a major
fullfillment company, and one afternoon we were in the IT office and we
got to see first hand how FedEX loaded up the items they were shipping
from one of our West Coast facilities. :)
Of course our packing / prep took this into account and so the items
survived.
