Smart Hands Expert remote assistance and technical expertise

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Equinix IBX Technicians can provide assistance for remote management, custom installations and troubleshooting of your equipment as well as other services.  

Through our Smart Hands service, our highly trained and experienced IBX® Technicians can provide assistance for remote management, custom installations and trouble shooting of your equipment. Services range from power-cycling equipment to signal-testing a circuit, or performing an emergency equipment replacement. You can’t be at the IBX all the time, but we are. We’ll be here when you can’t.

Our Smart Hands technicians are trained in the latest technologies and they are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Types of services include:

  • On-site/off-site technical assistance and troubleshooting
  • Equipment installations and configurations
  • Ladder racking, pre-wiring of patch panels and equipment
  • Interface card removal, installation and configuration
  • Testing media for continuity and proper signaling
  • Providing visual verifications to assist in remote troubleshooting
  • Inventorying/labeling of equipment
  • Assistance in the conference room and AV equipment setup
  • Power cycling a router, server, switch and soft-booting a server
  • Adding, removing or verifying a demarcation
  • Moving equipment within your space and cabinets
  • Moving or securing a cable

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In Their Words

"We know we can count on the Equinix Smart Hands™ service if we need assistance. Everything we run for our clients is critical, but because an experienced Equinix technician will respond to our request in a heartbeat, I feel comfortable with these remote deployments."

— Adrian Goins, President and CEO, Arces

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Case Study

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    Arces Case Study (PDF)

    Managed services provider, Arces, uses Smart Hands to deploy remote infrastructure with confidence.

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Equinix Smart Hands Datasheet

Manage your operations remotely with Smart Hands, our remote assistance technician service.

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Arces Case Study

Find out how managed services provider, Arces, used Smart Hands to deploy remote infrastructure with confidence.

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