Press Releases

TIA Announces 2016 Award Winners at Annual Network of the Future Conference

Arlington, VA. (June 13, 2016) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) – the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high tech communications networks –recently named inductees to its first-ever TIA Hall of Fame and announced the recipient of this year’s TIA CEO award. Individuals were recognized during a ceremony at the TIA 2016:…

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TIA Survey: With Nearly Half of Companies Actively Using IoT, Major Enterprise Break-Out is Expected

Report Identifies a Significant Usage Shift as Companies See IoT’s Value in Product Performance ARLINGTON, VA (June 8, 2016) – Within two years more than 90 percent of companies will be using Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, according to a new survey of business leaders announced by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association…

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ICT Spending Saw Big Gains in 2015; Future Growth will Slow as Leading Technologies Reach Maturity

*** TIA Annual Market Review & Forecast *** TIA Warns of Economic Disruption if Companies Face Increasingly Heavy Regulation During Time of Lower Growth Rates ARLINGTON, VA (June 7, 2016) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) today released its 20th annual ICT Market Review & Forecast (MR&F), the industry’s most comprehensive data review, analysis and…

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Recent Blogs

Understanding TIA-942: A Q&A with Tom McGarry

By TIA Staff | June 11, 2026 | Comments Off on Understanding TIA-942: A Q&A with Tom McGarry

Adapted from a podcast produced by the Telecommunications Industry Foundation (TIF). As data centers evolve rapidly, driven in large part by AI—industry standards play a critical role in ensuring reliability, scalability, and trust. In this Q&A, Michelle Kang, TIF Chair and newly appointed TIA Board Member, speaks with Tom McGarry, VP of Standards at the…

Why AI Infrastructure Needs More Than ISO: Reimagining Quality for the Data Center Era

By TIA Staff | June 2, 2026 | Comments Off on Why AI Infrastructure Needs More Than ISO: Reimagining Quality for the Data Center Era

The rapid expansion of AI is reshaping the data center industry at a pace few sectors have experienced. Demand for compute is accelerating, infrastructure is scaling rapidly, and expectations for uptime and performance continue to rise. In a recent webinar, TIA’s Mike Regan and Google’s Govind Ramu examined how this shift is exposing gaps in…

ANSI/TIA-942 and DCE 9000: Understanding the Benefits and Difference

By TIA Staff | March 23, 2026 | Comments Off on ANSI/TIA-942 and DCE 9000: Understanding the Benefits and Difference

From streaming and cloud services to AI and enterprise applications, nearly every aspect of the modern digital economy depends on highly reliable data centers. As capacity scales rapidly and operating environments grow more demanding, infrastructure reliability, resilience, performance, and efficiency become mission‑critical priorities. Standardized approaches to data center design and to the quality of the infrastructure supply chain are…

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