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 <bickn...@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... > > -- > Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ > -- -- Darren Bolding -- -- dar...@bolding.org --
