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

Mon Apr 6 19:43:13 UTC 2009

I know some VAR's (CDW for example) will do racking/shipping from their
facility.  In the option we explored, they offered to allow us to rack gear
ourselves or rack it themselves.  They also were amenable to a VPN setup so
we could get in via console and KVM's.
They claimed to ship pre-built cabinets like this on a regular basis.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org> wrote:

> In a message written on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:46:35PM -0400, 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?
>
> "shipping", no, "moving" yes.
>
> In past lives I've hired the same good folks who you might use to
> move your house to move entire racks.  The major moving companies
> have teams who have experience with eletronic equipment, including
> full racks.  Any quality 4 post rack with things well secured should
> be able to travel this way.
>
> I've never tried out of range of a truck, in all of my examples it
> was put on a truck, driven to the destination, and unloaded by the
> same team of folks.  Still, if you don't need it overnight that can be
> the entire united states...
>
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