This podcast features insights from Jonathan Jew, an award-winning data center design professional who is at the forefront of international standards development. He provides inside information on the in-progress TIA-942 standard revision as well as goings-on with other data center specifications from ISO, CENELEC and BICSI. Jew also discusses best practices for cabling system design and administration in data center environments.

In this Q&A with our chief editor Patrick McLaughlin, Ken Hall describes the bandwidth-consumption trends that are driving demand for cabling technologies in data centers today. He also explains why the infrastructure within a data center is a basic building block of an organization’s business strategy.