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Rack and Stack in Geneva
Rack and stack in Geneva means installing, mounting and cabling new hardware in your rack inside a data centre that another company owns and runs. Reboot Monkey engineers carry out the cabling, labelling and power-on checks on site. Quotes are provided on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.
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Plan your Geneva installation
Send the hardware list, rack position and target date. Quotes are on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.
In depth
Rack and Stack: 6 sections, open any to read more.
Rack and Stack in Geneva
Equinix GV1 - Geneva, City stands on Rue de la Confédération in Geneva. When new servers, switches or storage arrive for a rack in the city, someone has to unpack them, mount them, cable them and confirm that they power on. Reboot Monkey provides that work as a third-party datacenter services operator. Reboot Monkey is not a hosting company and does not own datacenters: the equipment goes into racks inside facilities that other companies own and run. Rack and stack is defined as installing, mounting and cabling new hardware. It differs from server migration, which moves existing equipment between racks, rooms or facilities, and from remote hands, which covers physical tasks such as reboots and cable checks on equipment that is already in service. For a Geneva deployment, the usual starting point is a hardware delivery to the facility and a rack position that the customer has already contracted, either directly with the operator or through Reboot Monkey, which also sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses and network. In practice this means that access arrangements, delivery handling and working conditions follow the operator's requirements, and the engineer assigned to your job works within them.
- Mounting servers, switches and storage in the customer's rack
- Cabling and labelling of every connection installed
- Power-on checks once the hardware is installed
- Network cabling coordinated with the circuits ordered for the rack
Datacenter Facilities in Geneva
Data centres in Geneva, ordered by the number of networks present:
- Equinix GV1 - Geneva, City (Equinix, Inc.), Rue de la Confédération 6, 1204 Geneva: 36 networks; carriers Eurofiber France, Free Pro, LASOTEL and euNetworks
- Equinix GV2 - Geneva, West (Equinix, Inc.), Route du Bois-des-Fréres 46, Le Lignon, 1219 Geneva: 27 networks; carriers Arelion and euNetworks
Our Rack and Stack Services
Rack and stack work covers cabling, labelling and power-on checks. Each of those steps produces something the customer can inspect afterwards: cables that are traceable because they are labelled, and hardware that has been confirmed to power on before the engineer leaves the rack.
Where the hardware needs connectivity, 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 Reboot Monkey engineers install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack. The customer therefore deals with one supplier for the circuit order and the physical installation, instead of coordinating the operator, the carrier and a separate installation contractor.
Fibre connections are a common source of faults after a new installation. A fibre inspection scope and cleaning kit are available on request, so end faces can be inspected and cleaned during the install rather than after a link fails to come up.
Work is scoped to the job. A single server in an existing rack and a multi-rack deployment are different pieces of work, which is why quotes are on request and prices depend on the customer and the size of the job. To start, describe the hardware, the rack position and the target date, and Reboot Monkey will respond with a quote.
- Server, switch and storage installation in the customer's rack
- Cross connects and carrier circuits ordered from the operator and carriers
- Fibre inspection scope and cleaning kit on request
- Quotes on request, based on the customer and the size of the job
Why Reboot Monkey
Reboot Monkey works as a vendor-neutral third-party operator. It sells the rack space, transit, addresses, network and hardware, and also the engineers who install and support them, so a Geneva deployment can be handled as one piece of work rather than several.
A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site. If the engineer assigned to your installation is unavailable, the named backup already knows the site, which matters on an install with a fixed delivery date.
As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. For a company deploying hardware in several places, the same service definitions apply wherever the work is done, so a Geneva installation can follow the same process as one elsewhere.
After the installation, the same engineers can carry on with related work. Remote hands covers reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks on the customer's instruction. Smart hands covers technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge. Hardware monitoring means the Reboot Monkey NOC monitors the customer's servers and network equipment. Each is defined separately, so the customer orders only what the deployment needs.
- Rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and hardware from one operator
- A named, briefed backup engineer for every customer site
- The same service definitions across all locations
How Reboot Monkey Works
These terms apply in every facility in Geneva where Reboot Monkey engineers work.
- Response: 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA, and a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. The incident response SLA covers incidents and unplanned requests; on-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
- Monitoring: 24/7 NOC monitoring across all facilities, covering IPMI, iDRAC, SNMP, temperature, power, network signals.
- Hardware: vendor-neutral technicians for Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper and Arista equipment.
- Independence: independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff).
- One agreement: single provider across cities, so a customer in several cities needs only one agreement.
- Service levels and terms: https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/solutions/sla
- Published case study: a major ICT provider engaged Reboot Monkey for three full infrastructure rollouts in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, with the hardware installed the same day at every site. Read the case study at https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/resources/case-study/how-we-completed-3-full-deployments-across-pakistan
Rack and Stack
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does rack and stack cover in Geneva?
In Geneva, rack and stack means installing, mounting and cabling new hardware in the customer's rack. The work covers cabling, labelling and power-on checks. Reboot Monkey engineers carry it out under the facility operator's site rules, and quotes are provided on request, depending on the customer and the size of the job.
Do you work in every datacenter in Geneva?
Reboot Monkey engineers work in any facility in Geneva where the customer has equipment and access, under the operator's own access and safety rules. The customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list before the first visit.
How fast can Reboot Monkey respond in Geneva?
Incidents and unplanned requests are handled under a 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA. There is also a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. On-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
How is Reboot Monkey different from the facility operator's own staff?
Facility operators' own technicians work for the building. Reboot Monkey engineers work for the customer: they are independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff), follow the customer's instructions, and the same team can cover several buildings in the city under one agreement.
How do I get started with rack and stack in Geneva?
Send the site, the equipment and the task through the contact form. Reboot Monkey replies with a quote and an engineer plan for that facility. Once agreed, the customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list and the rack and stack work is scheduled under the operator's rules.
Plan your Geneva installation
Send the hardware list, rack position and target date. Quotes are on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.