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ISO 14644 Standards can be found through IEST, the Secretariat of ISO/TC209.
ASHRAE STANDARD: Particulate and Gaseous Contamination Guidelines for Data Centers
“It is incumbent on data center managers to do their part in maintaining hardware reliability by
monitoring and controlling the dust and gaseous contamination in their data centers. Data centers
must be kept clean to Class 8 of ISO 14644-1, Cleanrooms and Associated Controlled
Environments—Part 1: Classification of Air Cleanliness
(ISO 1999).”
Sources of dust inside data centers should be reduced. Every effort should be made to filter out
dust that has deliquescent relative humidity less than the maximum allowable relative humidity
in the data center. The gaseous contamination should be within the modified severity level G1 of
ANSI/ISA-71.04-1985, Environmental Conditions for Process Measurement and Control
Systems: Airborne Contaminants (ISA 1985), which meets:
Above Referenced From: ASHRAE – Particulate and Gaseous Contamination Guidelines for
Data Centers.
Free 13-Page PDF can be found here.
Telcordia GR-3160, “NEBS Requirements for Telecommunications Data Center Equipment and
Spaces” (available for purchase, primarily used by Telco’s)
ISO/IEC 24764, “Information technology – Generic cabling systems for data centres” (available
for purchase, similar to the cabling content of TIA-942 but written for the international market)
ANSI/TIA-942-A
ANSI/TIA-942-A is the Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers and was
approved this year August_2012. There is also the ANSI/Bicsi-002_2011 Data Center Design
and Implementation Best Practices that was approved in January 2011. Both documents are very
helpful to Data Center Owners/Operators, Telcomm/IT Consultants and PMs along with
telcomm/IT installers. Both Documents are for design/build/operation of physical
layer systems for data centers.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is the accrediting agency who recognizes TIA,
Bicsi and many other technology associations for their “openness, balance, consensus and due
process” when developing industry standards.
Notice:
Federal Standard 209E has been replaced with ISO Standard 14644. The first subsection in ISO
14644 (ISO STND. 14644-1) has some unique changes from the old Federal Standard – however
they are very similar. This standard is now in effect for critical environments (Cleanrooms, Data
Centers, etc.) worldwide. Some companies have been successful with the federal Standard 209E,
and may not have switched over yet. It is important for these companies to know the main
differences are easy to implement and may not be a costly change.
The main differences between Federal Standard 209E and ISO 14644-1 (Testing Standards) are: