[123451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FreeAxez raised flooring?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Durack)
Mon Mar 8 22:59:37 2010
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:59:18 -0500
From: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:21 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> I poked through AFCO's drawings at
> http://www.afcosystems.com/pdf/AFCO_Drawings.pdf, How much of a size
> hit is typical? Do you take the depth out to 52" to create enough
> space in front of the equipment for air to flow and take the 6-inch
> hit to the side for the cabling sidecar?
EHD racks with 6" sidecars, one on each side, as we have significant
cabling density to handle. Rack frame is 48" deep.
> What's the impact with respect to sharing the facility with non-AFCO
> cabinets? I would imagine that with a bunch of these things
> dynamically changing their air flow it would be hard to maintain a
> static pressure under the floor.
No impact - it's all the same racks :-)
Airflow under the floor has not been an issue. It's not much different
than moving perf tiles around periodically.
--
Tim:>
