As deep as a blade server and with a couple power supplies hanging out of the back, some of those one rack unit switches are pretty heavy in spite of their pizza-box form factor. I remember years ago I installed a pair of Nexus 5k switches in a building MDF, but since they were both heavy and used rails instead of rack screws, I just couldn’t rackmount them by myself.

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