Well In Montreal, QC, CA...
You can get Room, Cage, Full, 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8th from Metro Optic.
You lose about 1U for the physical separation, but when you only
need a few U's for a pair of routers...
They also have connections with a local rack maker that can make you
whatever you need.
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Alain Hebert [email protected]
PubNIX Inc.
50 boul. St-Charles
P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7
Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443
On 02/14/16 08:48, Mike Hammett wrote:
> *nods* I've seen half and third cabinet designs employed in a couple
> datacenters. I've seen product sheets for quarter and sixth rack (with the
> sixth introduced in this thread).
>
> To me, those seem like ideal cabinets to put in MMRs, which traditionally
> have full cabinets. By count of networks, there are far more networks that
> employ routers smaller than say 4U than there are ones that use larger than
> say 12U.
>
>
>
>
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> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
>
> Midwest-IX
> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Chris Woodfield" <[email protected]>
> To: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Bevan Slattery" <[email protected]>, "North American Network
> Operators' Group" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 6:33:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Shared cabinet "security"
>
> I've seen colos sell half-racks where both the top and bottoms of the racks
> have their own cabinet doors. It's not a common thing though.
>
> -C
>
>> On Feb 12, 2016, at 18:58, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> There are more options when you're not just using someone else's datacenter.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>
>> Midwest-IX
>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: "Bevan Slattery" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 4:44:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: Shared cabinet "security"
>>
>> In a past life we worked with our supplier to create physically separate
>> sub-enclosures.1/2 and 1/3. Able to build in a separate and secure cable
>> path for interconnects to the meet-me-room and connection to power supplies.
>>
>> Can be done and I think there are now rack suppliers that do this as
>> standard. Been out of DC space for a few years now.
>>
>> [b]
>>
>>> On 13 Feb 2016, at 6:58 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> That moment when you hit send and remember a couple things…
>>>
>>> Of course labeling of the cables.
>>>
>>> Maybe colored wire loom for fiber and DACs in the vertical spaces to go
>>> along with the previously mentioned color scheme?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Mike Hammett
>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>>
>>> Midwest-IX
>>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>> From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
>>> To: "North American Network Operators' Group" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 2:53:17 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Shared cabinet "security"
>>>
>>>
>>> I am finding a bunch of covers for the front. I do wish they stuck out more
>>> than an inch (like two).
>>> http://www.middleatlantic.com/~/media/middleatlantic/documents/techdocs/s_sf%20series%20security%20covers_96-035/96_035s_sf.ashx
>>>
>>>
>>> It looks like these guys stick out 1.5”. That may be workable…
>>> http://www.lowellmfg.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/filemanager/files/1717-SSCV.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess those covers are really only useful for servers. That really
>>> wouldn’t work with a switch\router. Switches and routers are going to be
>>> the bulk of what we’re dealing with.
>>>
>>> I am finding locking power cables, but that seems to be specific to the PDU
>>> you’re using as it requires the other half of the lock on the PDU.
>>>
>>> I did come across colored power cords. I wonder with some enforced cable
>>> management, colored power cables, etc. we would have “good enough”? You get
>>> some 1U or 2U cable organizers, require cables to be secured to the
>>> management, vertical cables in shared spaces are bound together by
>>> customer, color of Velcro matches color of the power cord? Blue customer,
>>> green customer, red customer, etc. Could do the cat6 patch cables that way
>>> too, but that gets lost when moving to glass or DACs.
>>>
>>> I thought about a web cam that would record anyone coming into the cabinet,
>>> but Equinix doesn’t really allow pictures in their facilities, so that’s
>>> not going to fly. Door contacts should be helpful for an audit log of at
>>> least when the doors were opened or closed.
>>>
>>> Financial penalty from the violator to the victim if there’s an uh oh?
>>>
>>> I’m not trying to save someone from themselves. I’m not trying to lock the
>>> whole thing down. Just trying to prevent mistakes in a shared space.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Mike Hammett
>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>>
>>> Midwest-IX
>>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>> From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]>
>>> To: "North American Network Operators' Group" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 8:59:08 AM
>>> Subject: Shared cabinet "security"
>>>
>>> I say "security" because I know that in a shared space, nothing is
>>> completely secure. I also know that with enough intent, someone will
>>> accomplish whatever they set out to do regarding breaking something of
>>> someone else's. My concern is mainly towards mitigation of accidents. This
>>> could even apply to a certain degree to things within your own space and
>>> your own careless techs
>>>
>>> If you have multiple entities in a shared space, how can you mitigate the
>>> chances of someone doing something (assuming accidentally) to disrupt your
>>> operations? I'm thinking accidentally unplug the wrong power cord, patch
>>> cord, etc. Accidentally power off or reboot the wrong device.
>>>
>>> Obviously labels are an easy way to point out to someone that's looking at
>>> the right place at the right time. Some devices have a cage around the
>>> power cord, but some do not.
>>>
>>> Any sort of mesh panels you could put on the front\rear of your gear that
>>> you would mount with the same rack screw that holds your gear in?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Mike Hammett
>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>>
>>> Midwest-IX
>>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
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