> On Sep 25, 2021, at 12:48 , Andrey Khomyakov <[email protected]> > wrote:
> Let me just say from the get go that no one is making toolless rails a > priority to the point of shutting vendors out of the evaluation process. I am > not quite sure why that assumption was made by at least a few folks. With > that said, when all things being equal or fairly equal, which they rarely > are, that's when the rails come in as a factor. > > Back some 5 years ago we pulled the trigger and started phasing out Cisco and > Juniper switching products out of our data centers (reasons for that are not > quite relevant to the topic). We selected Dell switches in part due to Dell > using "quick rails'' (sometimes known as speed rails or toolless rails). > This is where both the switch side rail and the rack side rail just snap in, > thus not requiring a screwdriver and hands of the size no bigger than a > hamster paw to hold those stupid proprietary screws (lookin at your, cisco) > to attach those rails. Perhaps from this paragraph? Owen
