Press Releases
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…
TIA Welcomes U.S.-EU Trade Framework
Arlington, VA (August 21, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association – the trusted industry association for the connected world – released the following statement from TIA’s Patrick Lozada, Director, Global Policy: “TIA welcomes the release of additional details regarding the U.S.-EU Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade. The Framework takes valuable steps…
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,…