TIA Issues Recirculation Ballot for TIA-942-C- Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers
Stakeholders Invited to Contact TIA Regarding Participation
Arlington VA. (June 29, 2023) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-42.1 Engineering Committee on Premises Telecommunications Infrastructure has issued a recirculation ballot for document TIA-942-C initially titled ” Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers “.
TR-42.1 is developing guidelines in the area defined by the following scope: This Standard specifies the minimum requirements for telecommunications infrastructure of data centers and computer rooms, including edge data centers, enterprise data centers, managed services data centers, colocation data centers, and cloud data centers. The topology specified in this document is intended to be applicable to any size data center. Comments are limited to the text highlighted in yellow.
The stakeholders may include but are not limited to: Cabling system designers, installers, consultants, architects, engineers; manufacturers, cabling systems owners, facilities management organizations, contractors, data center owners, data center designers, data center and cloud service providers.
TIA is actively seeking participation in these projects from the user and general interest communities.
For more information about TR-42 and how to participate in standards development with TIA, contact Cheryl Thibideau at standards-process@tiaonline.org.
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