TIA-942 Datacenter Standardization

Wed Aug 31 11:51:13 UTC 2005

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The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) -- the people who
brought you the CAT standards for unshielded twisted pair cabling --
recently undertook a vast challenge to publish a definitive document
encompassing best practices and design considerations for every single
aspect of the modern data center.

The standard, entitled Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for
Data Centers, TIA-942, weighs in at 148 pages, and covers everything
from site selection to rack mounting methods.
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Link:
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci1120625,00.html

Also:
http://www.tiaonline.org/media/press_releases/index.cfm?parelease=05-46

I seem to remember some folks asking questions about such a thing here
in the past... so I hope this isn't a duplicate of an old thread.

In any case, has anyone here looked over the documents and/or have any
comments on them?

It seems to me (however I have not yet read it) that something such as
this could be quite useful to IT students and others who don't have the
field experience.

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Regards
Chris Gilbert