Press Releases
TIA Congratulates 2022 Star and QuEST Forum Award Winners
Arlington, VA (January 25, 2023) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—has announced the winners of the organization’s two annual awards programs: the TIA Star Awards and the TIA QuEST Forum Awards. TIA gives awards to the most engaged members who contribute to the advancement of the global ICT industry through TIA…
TIA Issues Call for Interest to Participate in TR-41 Standard Committee
Arlington, VA (January 9, 2023) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—is updating its standards for “Performance and Accessibility for Communications Products” within TIA’s TR-41 standards engineering committee. The new work will be focused on updating standards that enable mobile phones to be compatible with hearing aid devices. TR-41 will meet on…
2023 Omnibus Bill Does Not Support Removing Untrusted Chinese Telecom Equipment from U.S. Networks
Arlington, VA (December 21, 2022) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—released a statement regarding the recently released $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill: “While we applaud both parties for coming together to negotiate the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act, TIA was stunned to see that this package does not include the…
Recent Blogs
Artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and other compute-intensive workloads are imposing new demands on rapidly expanding data center infrastructure. Increasing power densities and more complex cooling architectures leave less tolerance for failure. Many existing standards address facility design or quality management for information and communications technology. However, none provides a lifecycle quality framework for suppliers…
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…