[snip] The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) -- the people who brought you the CAT standards for unshielded twisted pair cabling -- recently undertook a vast challenge to publish a definitive document encompassing best practices and design considerations for every single aspect of the modern data center. The standard, entitled Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, TIA-942, weighs in at 148 pages, and covers everything from site selection to rack mounting methods. [/snip] Link: http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci112... Also: http://www.tiaonline.org/media/press_releases/index.cfm?parelease=05-46 I seem to remember some folks asking questions about such a thing here in the past... so I hope this isn't a duplicate of an old thread. In any case, has anyone here looked over the documents and/or have any comments on them? It seems to me (however I have not yet read it) that something such as this could be quite useful to IT students and others who don't have the field experience. -- Regards Chris Gilbert