Mission-critical Data Center applications require reliability, flexibility and security. CommScope® offers a comprehensive portfolio of advanced infrastructure solutions that meet the unique requirements of Data Center environments. DATA CENTER S O L U T I O N S
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Mission-critical Data Center applications
require reliability, flexibility and
security. CommScope® offers a
comprehensive portfolio of advanced
infrastructure solutions that meet
the unique requirements of Data
Center environments.
DATA CENTERS O L U T I O N S
CommScope®: Providingthe Strength of GlobalSolutions for CustomData Center Applications
Whether supporting the needs of a single company or thousands of different clients, Data Centers areessential to the flow, processing and storage of business-critical information. Today’s Data Center must deliver a defined set of services to users ondemand, with little to no interruption. A decade ago,Data Center operators were expected to anticipate alimited number of natural and man-made sources ofinterruption and deal with them within an acceptableperiod of downtime—with the next business daybeing an acceptable timeframe. Today, the DataCenter is expected to be able to react to any known or unknown threat without any downtime. As such,the Data Center must be extremely reliable and securetoday yet still have the capacity to cost-effectivelyaccommodate the growth and reconfiguration thatmay be needed tomorrow.
This service reliability is paramount to Data Centerinstallations and must be addressed with high-performance infrastructure solutions that allow highdensity, as well as ease of deployment and use. In supportof the use of increasingly complex applications such asgrid computing, content delivery, e-commerce anddata backup, the need for scalable infrastructures,power and cooling, and higher bandwidth continue to grow—intensifying the demand for better connectivitysolutions in the Data Center.
To meet these requirements, CommScope® has engineered intelligent Data Center solutions thatoffer real-time efficiencies, positively impacting networksecurity, IT productivity and, ultimately, business success.By implementing these intelligent solutions, enterprisescan increase network uptime, improve infrastructuremanagement and monitor network connections,allowing enterprises to more efficiently manage and safeguard their most valuable asset—information.With CommScope intelligent Data Center solutions,enterprises have the highest quality, performance,
reliability and long-term bandwidth delivery needed
to support and leverage the business opportunities
that content development and growth can bring.
Providing the Essential DataCenter FoundationThe reliability and performance of today’s Data Centersdirectly impact business success. Making the rightdecision and investment in the network infrastructurephysical layer—the Data Center’s essential foundation—can save enterprises time, money and frustration andensure business continuity. Without the right foundation,a Data Center’s equipment, applications and devicesare useless and its reliability and performance bothtoday and in the future are in jeopardy. In addition, byensuring the health of the physical layer network viamonitoring and proactive alarming, managers can enhance their Data Center planning and decisionmaking abilities using real-time access and reporting,resulting in more efficient use of IT resources andheadcount. CommScope understands the criticality of a solid foundation and the importance of maximizingresources. CommScope has designed solutions toensure every Data Center in which they are installedcan support content demands and Tier IV level DataCenter uptime, as well as contribute to IT resourceeffectiveness, today and in the future.
Extending the Life of your DataCenter and BudgetToday’s IT departments are faced with numerous, unrelenting demands centered on one core directive—do more with less and do it now. Nowhere is thismore evident than in the Data Center, wheremanagers must work with more equipment, fewerpeople, tighter timelines and less money to meetobjectives that have direct and serious business andcareer impact. Choosing the right networkinfrastructure physical layer solutions at the outset canhelp Data Center managers keep cabling infrastructurecosts to less than five percent of the total cost of IToperations over a 15 year period. By choosingCommScope solutions, you can extend the life of yourData Center and your budget because CommScopeengineers its solutions to adapt and perform throughgenerations of technological advances. This meansData Center managers are able to eliminate a significantcost outlay in infrastructure replacement over the next15 years and now can focus on day-to-day criticalissues and budget demands.
Helping to Control the DataCenter FootprintTasked with ensuring business continuity, today’s Data Center managers must provide high bandwidth,flexibility and enhanced security while ensuring continuous network availability. Emerging best practices addressing these challenges suggest anenhanced focus on better design and implementationof Data Center support systems. Data Center designersand operators are also beginning to look more closelyat power consumption and cooling requirements at the port level, often basing system and supportingmedia type selections as much upon cumulativepower consumption and dissipation as port or backplane speed.
CommScope understands the need to reduce andcontrol the impact a Data Center’s energy consumptionhas on a company’s financials and the environment. To meet that need, CommScope offers solutionsranging from high-density fiber trunk cables thatimprove airflow and cooling up to seven times tohoneycomb-designed enclosure doors that improveairflow in hot/cold aisle deployments and intelligentinfrastructure management systems that provideenvironmental monitoring, insight and control intothe active utilization of network elements.
Data Center DesignConsiderationsDesigning a Data Center takes several factors intoaccount beyond the size and amount of the data processing/storage equipment it should contain. Will the Data Center in question serve a single customer (an enterprise Data Center), or will it hostmultiple service providers or remote users (a hosting orco-located Data Center)? If it is a hosting Data Center,will equipment from different businesses or providersshare or be co-located in the same space? Will theequipment need to be physically segregated forsecurity purposes? Telecommunications access, power,cooling, network infrastructure and security all interactto provide the level of uptime the enterprise requiresfor effective operation. Operational strategy involvesunique Data Center design considerations, but alsoreliable and rapid fault detection, resolution and overallsupport. Determining a Data Center’s business
purpose, physical location, access to power, level of
redundancy, amount of cooling, strictness of security
and type of network infrastructure media are only the
beginning of a Data Center’s successful installation
or enlargement—but reliability is the overriding
concern in Data Center planning.
Data center designs must allow for:
• Operational reliability
• Quick changes, including additions
and rapid expansion
• Online monitoring and status
• Life cycle management
• Customer access
• Physical security
• Rapid detection, identification
and resolution of faults
Offices Support Rooms Utility and HVAC
Operation Center
Telecom Room Office and Operations Center LAN Switches
Entrance Room carrier equipment and demarcation
Main Distribution Area Routers, backbone LAN/SAN switches
Horizontal Distribution Area
LAN/SAN/KVM Switches
Zone Distribution Area
Equipment Distribution Area
Rack/cabinet
Equipment Distribution Area
Rack/cabinet
Equipment Distribution Area
Rack/cabinet
Horizontal Distribution Area
LAN/SAN/KVM Switches
Horizontal Distribution Area
LAN/SAN/KVM Switches
Backbone Cable
Horizontal Cable
Access Provider sometimes connected through an outside entrance hole
Data Center
Computer Room
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Direct-Connect is an
architecture that uses
structured cabling
between EDA, HDA,
and MDA.
Zone-Distribution uses
network switches to
support zones or PODs
created in a data center.
Top-of-Rack places
network switches in each
EDA cabinet and connects
back to aggregation
switches.
Potential congestion here
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access
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SAN
Director
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Director Diskarray
Diskarray
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Diskarray
Storage Devices
SAN Core/AccessMDA/HDA
LAN Access/Dist/Core
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EDA
LAN
access
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access
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Director
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Director Diskarray
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Storage Devices
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LAN Dist/Core
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EDALANFC
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Data Center CablingArchitecturesBroadly defined, a Data Center is a
room or network of rooms that
houses the interconnected data
processing, storage and
communications assets of one or
more enterprises. Different cabling
architectures can be used to support
various data center sizes, networking
strategies, and operational goals.
CommScope defines these
architectures in three categories;
Direct-Connect, Zone-Distribution,
and Top-of-Rack. Each cabling
architecture is unique in its
implementation.
ECA Zone 1
SAN
Access
Switches
LAN
access
Switches
ECA Zone 2
SAN
Access
Switches
LAN
access
Switches
ECA Zone 3
SAN
Access
Switches
LAN
access
Switches
ECA Zone 4
SAN
Access
Switches
LAN
access
Switches
Core/
Distribution
Switch/
Router
Core/
Distribution
Switch/
Router
SAN
Director
SAN
Director
Cat 6/6A
horizontal
50 micron LOMMF /
Single Mode
Horizontal
50 micron LOMMF /
Single Mode
uplinks
Network HDA/MDA Storage HDA/MDA
Storage Devices
Disk Storage Arrays
Virtual
Tape LibrariesTape Libraries
Each cabling architecture has its benefits and drawbacks and a one size fits all approach for data centernetworks may not be sufficient. An example of a mixed architecture is Top-of-Rack LAN and direct-connect SAN.
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Data Centers are divided into two types based on thekind of service they provide.
• An enterprise Data Center serves the needs of a
single company, campus or global operation. Since
the enterprise Data Center provides communication
and data services to a single company or enterprise,
it is the core of the company’s data networking, as
well as its Internet and telephone access. Web servers,
intranet hubs, storage and other equipment are
typically located here.
• The hosting Data Center serves a variety of clients
and is owned by a service provider that sells data and
Internet services (such as Web or Virtual Private
Network [VPN] hosting) to several customers. While
both kinds of Data Centers use similar equipment and
network infrastructure, the hosting Data Center has
the requirement for additional demarcation and security.
Global Infrastructure Standardsand GuidelinesGlobal infrastructure standards and guidelines for Data
Centers are being formulated with recommendations for
preferred high-performance network infrastructures. Data
Center topology and infrastructure recommendations are
covered by TIA/EIA-942 (Telecommunications
Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers) in the US and by
Draft IS 24764 (Information Technology—Generic Cabling
for Data Center Premises) internationally.
Generally, the Data Center infrastructure is comprised
of the interconnection between the individual servers,
mainframes, tape and disk storage and the aggregation
switches, and from these switches to the backbone
switches and out to the service provider networks. The
network infrastructure model within the main computer
room includes connections between and within the main
distribution areas (MDA), the horizontal distribution areas
(HDA), the zone distribution areas (ZDA) and the
equipment distribution areas (EDA), each acting as a
dividing point between the two main types of cabling
segments, the Data Center horizontal and the Data Center
backbone. A total network infrastructure solution includes
cable, cross-connect or interconnect patching systems,
information outlets and patch cords. It is essential to note
that these components be thought of as a total system
with all components designed for maximum
compatibility and performance. Data Center cabling
should follow a hierarchical star topology. In some cases,
very high speed signals are brought in over the backbone
and distributed over smaller and shorter horizontal
segments. In others, such as high-performance
computing environments where grid or utility computing
is utilized, the focus can be on edge-to-edge
communications and not on the backbone.
CommScope® Data Center Solutions
A Data Center infrastructure solution will require a
balance of copper, coax and fiber to cost-effectively
meet today’s needs and support the high-bandwidth
applications of the future. Rapidly evolving
applications and technologies are drastically
increasing the speed and volume of traffic on Data
Center networks. Ensuring that your infrastructure is
designed to accommodate the higher transmission
rates associated with these evolving bandwidth-
intensive applications is critical. In addition to the
performance of the cabling solution itself, the right
architecture needs to be chosen to optimize the
investment and the return for the particular building
environment. Balancing infrastructure cost versus the
electronics costs, and also the ongoing management
and flexibility of the solution, is a key part of effective
network infrastructure design.
The architectures that are commonly used for Data Center
network infrastructure solutions require a mix of high
density, high reliability, high performance, flexible design
guidelines, speed of installation, future-readiness and
ease of use.
Due to the versatility and wide range of applications
support, CommScope has pioneered the development
of network infrastructure solutions to satisfy virtually
• Automate change management, improve productivity, increase network reliability and availability, track physical location of equipment, help secure your network, and promote compliance
• Enable remote management and support problem resolution in “lights out” Data Centers
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across 250 Mhz frequency range
• Industry-leading design flexibility
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