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akonkol at gmail

Feb 6, 2010, 10:52 AM

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Small Network Equipment Shipping boxes

Gurus,

Where I work we ship our own gear.
That being said, we've run out of 1U shipping boxes for cisco gear.

I've searched the list archives, uline, as well as a few other
shipping material websites and cannot find an acceptable shipping box
with foam inserts.
I would like a corrugated cardboard box with foam supports for
shipping 1U cisco gear (3550s, 4948s, etc..)
I was wondering if anyone has sourced a good shipping box?

I apologize if this topic has been brought up before and my search
didn't find the thread.

Thanks,
-a

akonkol at gmail

Feb 6, 2010, 11:34 AM

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Small Network Equipment Shipping boxes [In reply to]

herb at tomobiki

Feb 7, 2010, 2:15 AM

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Re: Small Network Equipment Shipping boxes [In reply to]

Andrew Konkol wrote:
#
# Gurus,
#
# Where I work we ship our own gear.
# That being said, we've run out of 1U shipping boxes for cisco gear.
#
# I've searched the list archives, uline, as well as a few other
# shipping material websites and cannot find an acceptable shipping box
# with foam inserts.
# I would like a corrugated cardboard box with foam supports for
# shipping 1U cisco gear (3550s, 4948s, etc..)
# I was wondering if anyone has sourced a good shipping box?
#
# I apologize if this topic has been brought up before and my search
# didn't find the thread.
#
#
# Thanks,
# -a

Hi,

If your company has a presence in a 3rd party data center, you may want to give the loading dock/trash pile at the data center a look for discarded boxes.

Does it have to have foam inserts? I've used whatever box was available from wherever and wrapped enough bubble wrap around the 1U to make it snug in the box.

If worse comes to worse, you could always ask (and pay) cisco for a shipping kit. I know they offer shipping kits for larger devices and it stands to reason they would sell kits for 1U devices.

/herb

joelja at bogus

Feb 7, 2010, 6:10 AM

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Re: Small Network Equipment Shipping boxes [In reply to]

For stuff where the boxes were expected to go both directions, there are
anvil flight cases in appropiate sizes which I've used with great
success. These days I having been using pelican cases, either 1560 1630
or 1650 depending on size.

Andrew Konkol wrote:
> Gurus,
>
> Where I work we ship our own gear.
> That being said, we've run out of 1U shipping boxes for cisco gear.
>
> I've searched the list archives, uline, as well as a few other
> shipping material websites and cannot find an acceptable shipping box
> with foam inserts.
> I would like a corrugated cardboard box with foam supports for
> shipping 1U cisco gear (3550s, 4948s, etc..)
> I was wondering if anyone has sourced a good shipping box?
>
> I apologize if this topic has been brought up before and my search
> didn't find the thread.
>
>
> Thanks,
> -a
>

bmanning at vacation

Feb 7, 2010, 6:19 AM

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Re: Small Network Equipment Shipping boxes [In reply to]

+1 for pelican... been uing their stuff for years.

--bill

On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:10:08AM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> For stuff where the boxes were expected to go both directions, there are
> anvil flight cases in appropiate sizes which I've used with great
> success. These days I having been using pelican cases, either 1560 1630
> or 1650 depending on size.
>
> Andrew Konkol wrote:
> > Gurus,
> >
> > Where I work we ship our own gear.
> > That being said, we've run out of 1U shipping boxes for cisco gear.
> >
> > I've searched the list archives, uline, as well as a few other
> > shipping material websites and cannot find an acceptable shipping box
> > with foam inserts.
> > I would like a corrugated cardboard box with foam supports for
> > shipping 1U cisco gear (3550s, 4948s, etc..)
> > I was wondering if anyone has sourced a good shipping box?
> >
> > I apologize if this topic has been brought up before and my search
> > didn't find the thread.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -a
> >

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