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Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site
From: Lamar Owen <lowen () pari edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:14:37 -0400
On Monday 06 April 2009 14:46:35 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?
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Do I even need to spend time wondering about shock-tolerant cabinets, or should I instead be concentrating on finding the right company to wrap the cabinets for shipping, and to do the shipping itself?
Read up on the way EMC ships drive arrays already preloaded into their 42U cabinets. The cabinets are bolted to steel frames on special heavy duty pallets; there is an overwrap of cardboard; and, most importantly, on the side of the overwrap there is a tilt sensor that shows if the cabinet has been over a certain angle from vertical. A cap over the overwrap keeps it all together, and everything is banded as well. EMC cabinets are not shock mounted. EMC shipments are also handled by dedicated two-man teams with one particular logistics company; they aren't shipped Fedex or UPS Freight. For frequently shipped items, the shock mounted racks (using coiled cable, typically) work very well, but they are not cheap.
Current thread:
- shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Joe Abley (Apr 06)
- RE: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Richard Golodner (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Peter Beckman (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Bill Woodcock (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Lamar Owen (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Justin M. Streiner (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Patrick W. Gilmore (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Leo Bicknell (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Darren Bolding (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Owen DeLong (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Matthew Kaufman (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Robert E. Seastrom (Apr 07)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Charles Wyble (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Martin Hannigan (Apr 06)
- Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site Elmar K. Bins (Apr 06)
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