[163147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear NANOG Gods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue May 21 14:57:17 2013
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CDC10FA3.94F4%wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 14:56:22 -0400
To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi Warren,
On 2013-05-21, at 14:48, Warren Bailey =
<wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
> I need to ship some Dell servers, and my google skills have gotten me =
nowhere. Is there a decent place to find standard server size shipping =
boxes? Located in Socal if anyone has an extra or two.. ;)
The last time I had to ship a box myself I went to the local UPS Canada =
office, since they evidently will pack and ship rather than just ship.
The last time we had to ship a number of (Dell, actually) boxes from =
ICANN in LA we bought some flight cases that we could rack the servers =
into. Our thought was to go for reusable, rather than one-off (and we =
had doubts about the state of the boxes upon arrival if they weren't =
securely packed; a flight case with 19" rails inside seemed like a good =
bet).
We found the flight cases with only minimal googling, but if you're =
having trouble Mehmet could no doubt hook you up.
And if you're close to El Segundo and we can get the flight case back =
when you're done, you could probably just borrow ours :-)
Joe=
