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The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) ANSI/TIA-942-A Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers[1] is an American National Standard (ANS) that specifies the minimum requirements for telecommunications infrastructure of data centers and computer rooms including single tenant enterprise data centers and multi-tenant Internet hosting data centers.
The ANSI/TIA-942-A specification references private and public domain data center requirements for applications and procedures such as:
- Network architecture
- Electrical design
- File storage, backup and archiving
- System redundancy
- Network access control and security
- Database management
- Web hosting
- Application hosting
- Content distribution
- Environmental control
- Protection against physical hazards (fire, flood, windstorm)
- Power management
