Press Releases
TIA elects new officers and welcomes 2 new board members
Arlington, VA (January 21, 2026) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the trusted industry association for the connected world, today announced the election of the following new officers of the organization’s Board of Directors: Bruce McClelland, President and CEO at Ribbon Communications as Board Chair. Bruce previously held the treasurer position. Annie Bogue, SVP and Chief Sales Officer at…
TIA Launches Data Center Quality Standard Initiative
Arlington, VA (October 8, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) announces a new initiative to develop an infrastructure-focused Data Center Quality Standard aimed at advancing operational excellence, reliability, and sustainability in the rapidly expanding global data center market. Driven by the growth of AI, cloud computing, and digital services, demand for data centers is…
TIA to Establish Free-Space Optical Communications Standard; Attochron to Lead New Working Group
Arlington, VA (September 8, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—today announced it will lead the establishment of U.S. standards for free-space optical communications (FSOC). This effort will be led by a sub-committee of the TR-45 – Mobile and Point-to-Point Communications Standards committee and be called the FSOC Working…
Recent Blogs
Unprecedented global demand for compute and data services is redefining expectations for data center performance and reliability. Hyperscale operators now support millions of transactions per minute across search, video, and cloud workloads. AI-driven growth accelerates these trends, with global demand for digital infrastructure expected to triple by the end of the decade. Expanding data centers…
Author: Barry Elliott, Director, Capitoline Ltd The last few years have seen the rise of the Artificial Intelligence High Performance Computing model, or AI HPC, which is typified by Graphic Processing Units, GPUs, exemplified by the NVIDIA GB200/300 NVL72 computers and their supporting infrastructure. Some industry observers have commented that this is like going from ‘servers…
On November 17–19, telecommunications industry leaders gathered at the Broadband Nation Expo in Orlando, Florida to discuss the future of connectivity in America. Sessions focused on the technologies, policies, and workforce needed to expand high-performance networks nationwide. TIA CEO Dave Stehlin elaborated on these themes in his keynote address, emphasizing that broadband drives economic growth,…