How passive optical LANs can support smart buildings

How passive optical LANs can support smart buildings

The key to bringing this profound intelligence to the building is optical fiber, because it’s the only medium capable of delivering sufficient bandwidth to support current and anticipated usage. Although developers sometimes try to engineer fiber out—because it’s too...
TIA-942 data center conformance: Table stakes

TIA-942 data center conformance: Table stakes

The TIA-942 standard for data centers is the world’s most popular data center standard. It’s used by well over 70% of facilities around the world. Data center stakeholders have been very concerned about ensuring that their data center was designed, built, and approved...
New and emerging cabling standards from the TIA

New and emerging cabling standards from the TIA

Highlights from TIA’s TR-42 Telecommunications Cabling Systems Engineering Committee meeting in June include updates on TIA-569-E Pathways and Spaces Standard, The Bonding and Grounding (Earthing) Standard for Customer Premises, Standardizing Infrastructure for...
TIA launches 942 certification program for data centers

TIA launches 942 certification program for data centers

The TIA has introduced a certification program to ensure that data center facilities conform with the specifications in its ANSI/TIA-942 standard series. TIA will work with Certac to provide verifications of conformance to standards by independent conformity...