Arlington VA. (October 4, 2023) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-42 Engineering Committee on Telecommunications Cabling Systems has issued a recirculation ballot to address substantive changes for the draft 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.
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.