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TIA Named a Winner in the Fierce Innovation Awards — Telecom Edition Program in the Security Category

Arlington, VA (December 14, 2023)  2023 – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world, today announces it has been named a winner in the Fierce Innovation Awards — Telecom Edition program in the Security category. The Awards program is produced by Fierce Telecom and Fierce Wireless and recognize the creators, makers, and doers…

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TIA Named a Finalist in the Fierce Innovation Awards — Telecom Edition Program in the Security Category

Arlington, VA (December 11, 2023)  2023 – , The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world, today announces they have been named a finalist in the Fierce Innovation Awards — Telecom Edition program in the Security category. The Awards program is produced by Fierce Telecom and Fierce Wireless and recognize the creators, makers, and…

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TIA’s New SCS 9001™ 2.0 Supply Chain Security Management System Helps Improve Global Organizations’ Security Posture

Arlington, VA (November 28, 2023) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world— today announced the release of SCS 9001™ 2.0 Supply Chain Security Management System. SCS 9001 Release 2.0 is a certifiable standard designed to help organizations operationalize the National Institution of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other government guidelines and frameworks. The…

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Recent Blogs

Why Data Center Infrastructure Needs Its Own Quality Standard

By Mike Regan | July 14, 2026 | Comments Off on Why Data Center Infrastructure Needs Its Own Quality Standard

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…

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…

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