Irrespective of the size and type of a data center, the switching fabric of a network topology and the applications, the basic cabling infrastructure that facilitates the links required to connect the tools and types of equipment follow a similar primary design principle created by industry standards. These paradigms or standards were designed on a basis irrespective of any business type, size as all the data centers have same requirements that envelop offering secure, unhindered availability, best performance, and dependability.

The industry standards that a data center must follow provides the minimum requirements for the cabling framework in these places, along with the specifications that involve space planning, security, safety, fire control, electrical and mechanical needs. These paradigms are applicable for all sized data centers helping them to make the space manageable and steadfast along with the provision to add more equipment and applications within the least possible downtime and interference. There are additional guidelines along with data center standards that can fortify the process further and ascertain data center performance and competency.

Here are a few basic standards and guidelines:

ANSI/TIA-942-A Infrastructure Standard
It is a North American standard refers to the TIA-568 series but has supplementary information exact for the data centers. It involves the definite functional areas of a data center, giving list recommendations for path and spaces and covers the horizontal cable media spaces, redundancy along with cable management and environmental considerations.

ANSI/BICSI 002-2014 for data center design and use of best techniques
This data center standard is a paradigm for the design of the data center and operational guidelines that include planning, building, commissioning, safety & security, administrating and maintenance of the unit along with the cabling structure and spaces. This standard is effectively designed for modular and container data centers. This is not all; it is also applicable for maintaining the energy efficiency along with specific class structure modules for improving reliability.

The Green Grid
It is a non-profit, open industry association that is for end-users, planners, technological facility providers, facility designers and the utility organizations, which function to enhance the IT and the data center experts’ ability across the globe. This association also provides Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a process to measure the energy efficiency in the units that compares the complete energy usage in a data center to that of the amount consumed by active equipment.

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