In 2016, ASHRAE Released a brand new Datacom book, entitled ‘IT Equipment Design Impact on Data Center Solutions’. While this book highlights different IT solutions and its supporting networking infrastructure, it does not highlight the prevalence of non-optimal networking solutions and the resulting implications to the data center as a whole. This session not only highlights existing and emerging technologies and their associated best practice considerations, but also focuses on real world solutions and the resulting implications to capacity planning and industry efficiency objectives.