Antennas in the data center

Thu Jul 18 14:25:53 UTC 2019

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 
> <mailto:matt at netfire.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:01 AM Robert Webb <rwfireguru at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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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