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Re: Rack rails on network equipment
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:59:07 -0500
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 02:49:53PM -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote:
You mention about hardware lockin, but I wouldn't trust Dell to not switch out the design on their "next-gen" product, when they buy from a different OEM, as they are want to do, changing from OEM to OEM for each new product line. At least that is their past behavior over many years in the past that I've been buying Dell switches for simple things. Perhaps they've changed their tune.
That sounds very much like their 2000's-era behaviour when they were sourcing 5324's from Accton, etc. Dell has more recently acquired switch companies such as Force10 and it seems like they have been doing more in-house stuff this last decade. There has been somewhat better stability in the product line IMHO.
For me, it really doesn't take all that much time to mount cage nuts and screw a switch into a rack. Its all pretty 2nd nature to me, look at holes to see the pattern, snap in all my cage nuts all at once and go. If you are talking rows of racks of build, it should be 2nd nature?
The quick rails on some of their new gear is quite nice, but the best part of having rails is having the support on the back end.
Also, I hate 0U power, for that very reason, there's never room to move devices in and out of the rack if you do rear-mount networking.
Very true. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"-Asimov
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- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Chris Adams (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Bryan Fields (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Sabri Berisha (Sep 25)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Mauricio Rodriguez via NANOG (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Randy Carpenter (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Lady Benjamin Cannon (Sep 26)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment richey goldberg (Sep 24)
- RE: Rack rails on network equipment Kevin Menzel via NANOG (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Doug McIntyre (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Joe Greco (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment George Herbert (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Joe Maimon (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Wayne Bouchard (Sep 24)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment George Herbert (Sep 25)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Jay Hennigan (Sep 25)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Joe Greco (Sep 25)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment William Allen Simpson (Sep 27)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment Doug McIntyre (Sep 27)
- Re: Rack rails on network equipment George Herbert (Sep 25)