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@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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