Press Releases
TIA Publishes Addendum to Global Data Center Infrastructure Standard As 5G Network Buildouts Continue
Arlington, VA (March 08, 2022) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—has released an addendum to ANSI/TIA-942-B Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, which is used globally to design, implement, and verify data center infrastructure. The addendum defines initial infrastructure requirements and design guidelines for edge data centers, also referred to as…
TIA Inaugural Star Awards Recognize the Most Engaged and Active Members
Arlington, VA (February 17, 2022) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—presents the winners of the first ever TIA Star Awards. The TIA Star Awards are designed to recognize TIA’s most active companies and individuals for their contributions to the advancement of TIA and industry objectives and initiatives. To measure member engagement…
TIA QuEST Forum Recognizes Accomplishments of Member Companies and Professionals with Annual Awards
Arlington, VA (February 9, 2022) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—congratulates the winners of the TIA QuEST Forum Annual Awards, including the 2021 Sustainability Awards, a new TIA QuEST Forum Fellow, the Volunteer of the Year and Participant Company of the Year. TIA QuEST Forum was established more than two decades…
Recent Blogs
Submarine cables are the invisible infrastructure powering our digital world. They carry 99% of intercontinental internet traffic and support over $10 trillion in daily financial transactions. Yet, despite their critical importance, the time it takes to land these cables in the United States has increased dramatically. In the past five years, the licensing timeline…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recently hosted a listening session titled “Bolstering Data Center Growth, Resilience, and Security.” The session built on NTIA’s 2024 request for comment and gathered input from industry, academia, and civil society experts to inform an upcoming report with actionable policy recommendations. Patrick Lozada, Director of Global Policy at…
AI-driven workloads and compute-intensive applications are transforming legacy data center infrastructure. As operators shift from CPU-based x86 systems to GPU clusters and specialized accelerators, data center deployments are growing more complex. Meeting the power, cooling, and interconnection demands of high-performance applications requires efficient architecture and management, along with robust security controls. This article explores how…