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Re: TIA-942 Datacenter Standardization

  • From: Robert Boyle
  • Date: Wed Aug 31 22:36:33 2005 
At 10:20 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote:
Eesh... I grabbed a copy of this thing. In a cursory over-read... I am afraid if people (people defined by lim(clue) -> 0) start implementing datacenters by this guide. This would be a BRILLIANT document as the reading material for a college-level course. However, I'd be concerned if a CxO reads this and assumes they are great if the document has no conflicts with their implementation and they think they are in good shae.

Before I comment publicly on the issues I think I have with it, I want to verify that the points I raise aren't covered in some sort of disclaimer about being "out of scope" etc. Essentially 90% of the conversations folks have on nanog about datacenter designs are outside of what this advocates building (in a very cursory overread).
We have already been asked about where our datacenters fit in with the TIA942 spec in several RFPs! It does cover some good topics, but it also leaves out the design and structure of many things which are far more likely to cause an outage than the copper and fiber physical plants.

-R


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