Press Releases

TIA QuEST Forum Opens Registration for 2022 Trusted Networks Summit Featuring Prominent Industry and Government Speakers

  Arlington, VA (October 11, 2022) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—announced that its QuEST Forum Community has opened registration for its annual virtual conference to be held on November 15th. With a theme of Advancing Global Quality and Security for ICT, the Trusted Networks Summit with feature global business and…

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TIA Congratulates Newly Elected ITU General Secretary, Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Arlington, VA (September 29 2022) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—released a statement congratulating incoming General Secretary of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Doreen Bogdan-Martin, on her new role leading the international body: “TIA congratulates Doreen Bogdan-Martin on her historic election as the first woman to lead the ITU in…

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Changes to Export Controls Support U.S. Standards Leadership

Arlington, VA (September 8, 2022) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—released a statement applauding an Interim Final Rule from the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security changing the application of export controls to exclude standards development work. TIA issued the following statement from CEO David Stehlin: “TIA applauds the…

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Recent Blogs

DCE 9000 Is Moving Fast Because the Industry Can’t Wait

By TIA Staff | September 19, 2026 | Comments Off on DCE 9000 Is Moving Fast Because the Industry Can’t Wait

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…

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…

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