Switches and phone equipment can be very quiet, assuming no servers are going into this room most of the earlier advice is moot...however, one has to ask where your company's servers ARE going to go? Things to keep in mind if this is a newly constructed building: condensate lines need to run to the room for the AC system, room needs LOTS of power (add a few 220 circuits for good measure), and it might be a good idea to plan where you would eventually have generators installed in the building and run lines from there so you'll have them later. Make sure there's a way to get water out of the room FAST (sloping floors to a large drain). You could go crazy with a halon fire system. Good anchor points in the ceiling allow for installation of a single-hanging-point hammock, which I've always found to be welcome in an IT dungeon.
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Switches and phone equipment can be very quiet, assuming no servers are going into this room most of the earlier advice is moot...however, one has to ask where your company's servers ARE going to go? Things to keep in mind if this is a newly constructed building: condensate lines need to run to the room for the AC system, room needs LOTS of power (add a few 220 circuits for good measure), and it might be a good idea to plan where you would eventually have generators installed in the building and run lines from there so you'll have them later. Make sure there's a way to get water out of the room FAST (sloping floors to a large drain). You could go crazy with a halon fire system. Good anchor points in the ceiling allow for installation of a single-hanging-point hammock, which I've always found to be welcome in an IT dungeon.