Alex, Remember the Ascend MAX TNT and the sideways left-right airflow? The preferred method of deployment was three tall in a two post rack, mid mount. At the end of about the 10th row you could literally cook a steak and subsequently burn out the gear beyond that point. We fashioned our own dividers to keep airflow from forming a jet down the line via ACE hardware angle brackets that we cored to EIA screw spec and sheets of 1/4" plexiglass mounted between. Cheap as heck and worked like a champ. Airflow redirection can work.
Building a plenum for this could be relatively cheap and easy with a small amount of sheet metal and a pair of tin sheers. Don't forget the warranty; I'd check for anything explicit around airflow. Let us know what you do, love the innovation. Best, -M< On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Alex Rubenstein <a...@corp.nac.net> wrote: > The rock has turned over for a moment and I have crawled out. It is good > to see the sunlight from time to time. > > Those who know me know my life has gotten away from networking and that > sort of thing, and I am fully immersed in datacenter design and > construction for IT type loads (blades, compute, disk, etc.). However, I am > presented with the challenge of having to deal with some optical gear > (Ciena stuff, mainly). My question: have the optical folks woken up and > made things cool front to back, or are they still in to the bottom to top > world? > > Comments and lambasting: go > > Thanks! > > > > >
