TIA-942
The Telecommunications Industry Association's TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers[1] is an American National Standard that specifies the minimum requirements for telecommunications infrastructure of data centers and computer rooms including single tenant enterprise data centers and multi-tenant Internet hosting data centers. The topology proposed in the standard was intended to be applicable to any size data center.[2][3] [4] The standard was first published in 2005, following on the structured cabling work defined in TIA/EIA-568, and is often cited by companies such as ADC Telecommunications[2] and Cisco Systems.[5] The standard was updated with an addendum ANSI/TIA-942-A-1 in April 2013 from the TR-42.1 engineering subcommittee.[6]
The TIA-942 specification references private and public domain data centre requirements for applications and procedures such as:
- Network architecture
- Electrical design
- File storage, backup and archiving
- System redundancy
- Network access control and security
- Database management
- Web hosting
- Application hosting
- Content distribution
- Environmental control
- Protection against physical hazards (fire, flood, windstorm)
- Power management
References
- ↑ "TIA-942". TIA-942 Global Registry. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "TIA-942 Data Center Standards Overview" (PDF). ADC. January 31, 2006. Retrieved Dec 30, 2013.
- ↑ "TIA-942". SearchDataCenter web site. TechTarget. March 2006. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
- ↑ "TIA-942" (PDF). TIA-942. TIA. Apr 12, 2005. Retrieved Dec 30, 2013.
- ↑ "Data Center Top-of-Rack Architecture Design" (PDF). White paper. Cisco Systems. April 18, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
- ↑ "TIA Issues New Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard on Data Center Switch Fabrics in Order to Support Cloud Computing Growth". News release. April 9, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2013.