Press Releases
TIA Applauds Senate Action to Support U.S. Leadership in Tech Standards
Arlington, VA (July 31, 2024) – The Telecommunications Industry Association – a standards developing organization representing trusted manufacturers of telecommunications equipment and services – released the following statement from Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Melissa Newman: “TIA commends the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for the actions taken today in supporting U.S….
TIA offers Various Educational and Training Resources to Help Improve Cyber Security and Supply Chain Posture
Arlington, VA (July 8, 2024) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—today announced a comprehensive range of on-demand and instructor-led educational and training sessions tailored to facilitate the understanding and successful execution of the SCS 9001™ 2.0 Supply Chain Security Management System certification process. The SCS 9001™ 2.0 Supply Chain Security Management System…
TIA Unveils Revision C of the Global Data Center Infrastructure Standard
Arlington, VA (May 9, 2024) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world — today announced an update to its Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, ANSI/TIA-942. This newly published document marks the third revision since the inception of the original ANSI/TIA-942 standard, which sets forth the requirements and recommendations for designing and implementing…
Recent Blogs
Data center quality risk no longer stops at servers, switches, and software. As facilities scale, the risk extends into the power, cooling, and controls that keep operations online. Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads increase power density, thermal complexity, and system interdependence, reducing tolerance for variation in infrastructure quality. This shift exposes a gap, as…
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…
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…