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• ASHRAE 2011 Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments – Expanded Data
Center Classes and Usage Guidance, 2011
In Canada, the National Building Code, the National Fire Code, Canadian Electrical Code (CSA
CEC C22.1), and other documents including CAN/ULC S524, CAN/ULC S531 may be used for
cross-reference to NFPA 72, NFPA 70 section 725-8 and section 725-54.
Useful supplements to this Standard are the BICSI Telecommunications Distribution Methods
Manual, the Outside Plant Design Reference Manual, and the Information Transport Systems
Installation Methods Manual. These manuals provide recommended practices and methods by
which many of the requirements of this Standard may be implemented.
Other references are listed in annex H.
Annexes
Annexes A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are informative and not considered to be requirements of this
Standard.
Purpose of this Standard
The purpose of this Standard is to provide requirements and guidelines for the design and
installation of a data center or computer room. It is intended for use by designers who need a
comprehensive understanding of the data center design, including the facility planning, the
cabling system, and the network design. The standard will enable the data center design to be
considered early in the building development process, contributing to the architectural
considerations, by providing information that cuts across the multidisciplinary design efforts,
promoting cooperation in the design and construction phases. Adequate planning during building
construction or renovation is significantly less expensive and less disruptive than after the facility
is operational. Data centers in particular can benefit from infrastructure that is planned in advance
to support growth and changes in the computer systems that the data centers are designed to
support.
This document presents an infrastructure topology for accessing and connecting the respective
elements in the various cabling system configurations currently found in the data center
environment. In order to determine the performance requirements of a generic cabling system,
various telecommunications services and applications were considered. In addition, this
document addresses the floor layout related to achieving the proper balance between security,
rack density, and manageability.
The standard specifies a generic telecommunications cabling system for the data center and
related facilities whose primary function is information technology. Such application spaces may
be dedicated to a private company or institution, or occupied by one or more service providers to
host Internet connections and data storage devices.
Data centers support a wide range of transmission protocols. Some of these transmission
protocols impose length restrictions that are shorter than those imposed by this Standard.
Consult: standards, regulations, equipment vendors, and system service suppliers for:
applicability, limitations, and ancillary requirements when applying specific transmission
protocols. Consider consolidating standardized and proprietary cabling into a single structured
cabling system.
Data centers can be categorized according to whether they serve the private domain (“enterprise”
data centers) or the public domain (internet data centers, co-location data centers, and other
service provider data centers). Enterprise facilities include private corporations, institutions or
government agencies, and may involve the establishment of either intranets or extranets. Internet
facilities include traditional telephone service providers, unregulated competitive service providers
and related commercial operators. The topologies specified in this document, however, are
intended to be applicable to both in satisfying their respective requirements for connectivity
(internet access and wide-area communications), operational hosting (web hosting, file storage
and backup, database management, etc.), and additional services (application hosting, content