Rack and Stack in Brussels

Digital Realty BRU1 - Brussels stands on Wezenbeekstraat in Brussels. When new servers, switches or storage arrive for a Brussels deployment, the work starts with the equipment still in its boxes and ends with hardware that is mounted, cabled, labelled and powered on in your rack. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own or run the buildings it works in. That distinction matters when you plan a rack and stack job: access arrangements come from the operator, while the installation work itself is carried out by Reboot Monkey. Rack and stack is one of several services delivered by the same engineers. It covers new hardware going into a rack for the first time. Moving existing equipment between racks, rooms or facilities is a different service, server migration, and removing retired hardware is data center decommissioning. Keeping these separate lets you describe a job precisely when you request a quote, and lets the quote reflect the real scope. For a CTO, IT Director or procurement manager, the practical value is a single party accountable for the physical side of a deployment: equipment, cabling and the network that connects it.

Data centres in Brussels, ordered by the number of networks present:

Rack and stack work covers cabling, labelling and power-on checks; quotes are on request. In practice a job in Brussels follows a clear sequence from first contact to finished work.

You send the equipment list and the rack location. Reboot Monkey scopes the job against that list and returns a quote, because prices depend on the customer and the size of the job. Once the work is agreed, a Reboot Monkey engineer goes to the customer's rack in the facility, mounts the hardware, runs and dresses the cabling, labels each cable and port, and performs power-on checks to confirm the equipment starts as expected.

Connectivity is part of the same engagement when you need it. Reboot Monkey sells the network for the rack: it orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and its engineers install and patch the cabling in your rack. You deal with one party for the order and for the patching, rather than coordinating several suppliers.

Fibre links need clean connectors to perform. A fibre inspection scope and cleaning kit are available on request, which is useful when new optical cabling is part of the build.

A rack and stack job is often one step in a larger deployment, and the dependable detail is who turns up and who stands behind them. For every customer site, a second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup, so the work does not depend on a single person being available.

Reboot Monkey works inside data centres that other companies own and run, and it is not a hosting company. That means your hardware stays yours and stays in the facility you chose. The same operator also sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and data-centre hardware, so the space, the connectivity and the installation can be arranged together when that suits your plan.

On coverage, as of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. For an organisation that deploys in Brussels and elsewhere, the same way of working applies across those sites.

The terms that apply to the service, including response times and monitoring, are set out in the service terms shown on this page. Quotes for rack and stack are provided on request, so the scope you describe is the scope that is priced.

These terms apply in every facility in Brussels where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.