Antennas in the data center

Thu Jul 18 15:37:52 UTC 2019

I agree with Miles that this is more of an infiltration and or
ex-filtration of data issue. Can you firewall at the booster? Out of Band
management is tricky when LTE bandwidth is so high that one could export
large quantities of data.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 9:28 AM Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
wrote:

> It's not quite clear what you mean by "NIST controls" - NIST publishes
> standards & guidelines, they don't regulate.
>
> Now, if you're running a Federal data center, or one for a government
> contractor - perhaps you're referring to "NIST Compliance" under FISMA (the
> Federal Information Security Management Act) - which involves compliance
> with a bunch of FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards).  See
> https://csrc.nist.gov/topics/laws-and-regulations/laws/fisma &
> https://digitalguardian.com/blog/what-nist-compliance for some background.
>
> Now if I had to guess - I expect that there are some security standards
> that would prohibit placing an antenna inside a data center handling any
> kind of sensitive or classified data.
>
> If you have any systems, in the data center, that require security
> certification & accreditation, I expect your accreditation authority would
> be the person to talk to.  Or your information security officer.
> On 7/18/19 9:30 AM, Robert Webb wrote:
>
> So I have a situation where I am trying to get LTE to an out of band
> router and there is no signal available in the data center. There was a
> booster setup purchased and I have a manager telling me that standards,
> industry and not local, prohibit the installation.
>
> He has yet to produce any documented industry standard so I thought I
> would reach out to see if anyone here has heard of this.
>
> We fall under NIST controls and I haven't found anything there and have
> also looked at TIA and not found anything.
>
> Thanks...
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Matt Harris <matt at netfire.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:01 AM Robert Webb <rwfireguru at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone out there deal with data center design?
>>>
>>> Looking for any info available which provides guidelines on putting
>>> antennas, like LTE booster, in the data center.
>>>
>>
>> Not quite sure what you're looking for here Robert. As far as placing
>> something like an LTE booster in a data center, you'd just use common sense
>> (place it in the best possible place from a connectivity standpoint). Is
>> this something you're considering in order to provide service to folks who
>> run LTE backup connections on their gear (like serial concentrators)?
>> Wireless/RF site surveys and how to do them effectively are pretty
>> well-documented at this point.
>>
>> Or are you asking about roof access/deploying antennas on a rooftop
>> safely/securely?
>>
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