A holistic view of the data center and the opportunities to enhance its infrastructure to meet current and future demands DATA CENTERS

For over 40 years, CommScope’s highly trained specialists have partnered with our customers to identify, design and build specialized solutions for data centers. Drawing upon this wealth of expertise and experience, CommScope developed this eBook to provide a holistic overview of the data center and share guidance about how to navigate through the ever-increasing challenges faced by data center managers both now and in the future. Explore the chapters to find out tips, answers and insights to demystify the technology, untangle the complexity and accelerate time to market so you can identify the...

DATA CENTERS Data center standards

Data center standards Setting the standards for higher speeds Data centers and their contents must adhere to a wide range of standards, ranging from local building codes to guidelines from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Experts (ASHRAE) on cooling to a number of requirements placed on the IT equipment. There are also a number of standards related to the structured cabling infrastructure that serves as the platform for IT equipment in the data center. CommScope monitors data center trends and participates in standards organizations to help data center operators...

1 | Data center standards How the standards define data center cabling There are two main types of standards relevant to data center cabling infrastructure: Applications standards define the application that will run on the Cabling standards provide more detail around the physical media cabling infrastructure. There are three applications standards that and define the channel that supports the applications. There are are the most commonly deployed in data centers. three main cabling standard bodies. (Ethernet standards) have been particularly active, and currently have draft standards underway...

1 | Data center standards Keep up with the standards to future-proof the data center White Paper Data Center Application Standards Reference Guide - Networking and Storage Standards updates CommScope Quarterly Standards Advisor White Paper Data Center Cabling Design Fundamentals: Telecommunication Cabling Infrastructure Requirements Since data center cabling infrastructure will likely need to support multiple generations of equipment and speeds in the future, keeping up with the latest standards developments is critical. For new builds, it is important to deploy the highest bandwidth cabling...

DATA CENTERS Multi tenant data centers

Multi tenant data centers Freeing enterprises to focus on their core business With more than 130 million square feet of white space, multi tenant data centers (MTDCs) are one of the fastest-growing segments in the data center industry. Expanding at a rate of 16 percent annually, MTDCs enable enterprises and service providers to outsource their data center facilities. By leasing third-party data center whitespace, enterprises can remain focused on their core business while enjoying optimal data center availability, reliability and cost control. As a leading provider of multi tenant data center...

2 | Multi tenant data centers KEY ADVANTAGES Flexibility Multi tenant data center infrastructure makes advanced technology such as cloud computing and virtualized data centers available to small- and mid-sized businesses while also allowing easy expandability as the business grows. Reliability Multi tenant data centers provide their own technicians to maintain the infrastucture and ensure that hosted functions operate at peak efficiency at all times. Multi tenant data center operators provide service level agreements (SLAs) to tenant clients to ensure commitment to uptime and operational parameters....

2 | Multi tenant data centers KEY ADVANTAGES Savings By outsourcing data center services instead of building, hosting, maintaining and upgrading them themselves, multi tenant data center tenants can realize significant OpEx and CapEx savings. Most companies are not in the business of building and operating data centers. The expertise and efficiencies gained by multiple builds and design iterations have enabled Multi tenant data center operators to optimize their designs and operational efficiencies. Multi tenant data center operators can not only build a data center more cost-efficiently but...

2 | Multi tenant data centers Factors to consider when choosing a multi tenant data center The best multi tenant data center providers help clients through all stages of the project, from need assessment through migration through operation. They have the core competencies to understand, meet and exceed clients requirements. High-quality, robust mechanical, electrical, and data transport infrastructure that performs optimally and deploys quickly, allowing for fast, simple changes. Physical layer management that supports the tenant’s differentiated services and allows visibility into the enterprise....

2 | Multi tenant data centers When designing the cabling infrastructure for deployment in an MTDC, it is critical that the infrastructure be able to scale up and down, and adapt to technology changes. It must be able to integrate peer, cloud and hybrid strategies, and must also ensure that adequate space is allocated for horizontal and vertical cable management so that moves, adds and changes can be carried out easily. There is often the temptation to fully load server and switch cabinets without consideration of cable management. While this may reduce the amount of leased rack space, it also...

DATA CENTERSChapter 3 Data center topologies and architectures

Creating a blueprint for better data center performance A data center networking architecture—the layout of the cabling infrastructure and the way servers are connected to switches—must strike a balance between reliability, performance, agility, scalability and cost. It must also support both current and future applications and speeds. The size of the Anticipated growth of _ Whether Ts a new current data center the data center installation °r an upgrade