[c-nsp] DC Powered Box

[Eric Helm]

nachocheeze at gmail.com wrote:
> A slightly off-topic question...
> 
> I'm looking to put in a machine in one of our colo facilities to do
> various NMS type stuff (remote console server, network monitoring,
> etc) for a bunch of our network gear.  However, getting an AC power
> feed to our rack is pretty much out; like most telco-hotels, it's
> almost all DC power.
> 
> I'll most likely want to run some flavor of BSD or Linux on it, so I
> need an Intel or AMD based machine with (preferably redundant) DC
> power supplies.  Anyone have any recommendations?

We have several of these boxes that have worked well:
http://www.alliancesystems.com/Products/ServerCategory.aspx?id=13

/Eric