Building on the phenomenal success of structured cabling systems in commercial buildings with the TIA/EIA-568 series of standards, efforts are underway in the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) to develop a new standard facilitating similar design consistency and structure in data centers and SANs. Berk-Tek and Ortronics have been participating in the development of structured cabling system industry standards since their inception and are actively involved in the development of the data center/SAN standard. This experience and expertise has been applied within the TIA standards committees to help create the new TIA-942 standard: "Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers". This comprehensive standard addresses the unique needs of the data center environment inclusive of structured cabling system guidelines. It also includes examples of various data center topologies, as well as power requirements and cooling guidelines. As reliability is key in any data center design, the new standard discusses four “tiers” relating to various levels of data center availability, as defined by the Uptime Institute with expanded definitions of each tier. The new standard provides predictable levels of performance, more choices, and consistent data center/SAN cabling system nomenclatures, interoperability and economies of scale. The NetClear Solution for Data Centers and SANs fully supports the TIA-942 standard recommendations and design guidelines for these demanding applications. The new standard is available from Global Engineering Documents (www.global.ihs.com).
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