The
Telecommunications Industry Association
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop voluntary, consensus-based industry standards for a wide variety of information and communication technology (Informat ...
(TIA) ANSI/TIA-942-C Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for
data center
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is an American National Standard (ANS) that specifies the minimum requirements for
data center
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infrastructure and is often cited by companies such as
ADC Telecommunications[ ] and
Cisco Systems
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The standard was updated to revision C in May 2024 by the TIA TR-42.1 Engineering Committee of industry experts.
The ANSI/TIA-942-C specification references private and public domain data center requirements for data center infrastructure elements such as:
* Telecommunications
* Electrical systems
*Mechanical systems
* Resiliency levels
*Building architecture
*Fire safety
*Physical security
*Monitoring
TIA-942 certification programs
are offered through TIA-licensed certification bodies that assess and certify compliance to the TIA-942 standard. TIA has released a licensing scheme for TIA-942 audits and has laid down specific criteria for organizations who wish to conduct 3rd party external audits. Once fulfilled they will be licensed as a CAB - Conformity Assessment Body. Data centers conforming to the TIA-942 standard are listed on the website; https://tiaonline.org/942-datacenters/.
Newer revisions
The ANSI/TIA-942-C has been published in May 2024.
References
Local area networks
Telecommunications standards
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