Press Releases

Infrastructure Bill an Opportunity to Invest in America’s Future

Arlington, VA (November 06, 2021) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted ICT industry association—applauded the House for passing an historic bipartisan infrastructure bill today that includes investments up to $65 billion to expand critical broadband access including a permanent federal program to help more low-income households gain access to affordable services. “This is a once in a…

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UL and TIA Announce SPIRE™ Smart Building Verifications Now Available

Northbrook, Ill. and Arlington, Va., Nov. 2, 2021 – UL, the global safety science leader, and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the trusted industry association for the connected world, today launched the SPIRE™ Smart Building Verified Assessment. SPIRE is a comprehensive evaluation for smart buildings that provides an overall UL Verified SPIRE Smart Building Rating, as…

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TIA Looks Forward to Working with New FCC and NTIA Leaders on Critical ICT Issues

Arlington, VA (October 26, 2021) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—today released a statement about President Joe Biden’s leadership nominations for Jessica Rosenworcel as Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Alan Davidson as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, and Gigi Sohn as an FCC commissioner.   TIA CEO…

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Recent Blogs

Securing Converged Data Center Infrastructure Through Supply Chain Trust

By Mike Regan | February 23, 2026 | Comments Off on Securing Converged Data Center Infrastructure Through Supply Chain Trust

Most data centers no longer operate as standalone IT facilities. They are architected as tightly integrated systems, unifying IT and operational technologies through software-driven control and management layers. As critical infrastructure for national economies and public services, data center security requirements have expanded beyond perimeter defenses and runtime controls alone. Supply chain security is now…

Building the Resilient Future of Data Center Infrastructure

By TIA Staff | December 17, 2025 | Comments Off on Building the Resilient Future of Data Center Infrastructure

Unprecedented global demand for compute and data services is redefining expectations for data center performance and reliability. Hyperscale operators now support millions of transactions per minute across search, video, and cloud workloads. AI-driven growth accelerates these trends, with global demand for digital infrastructure expected to triple by the end of the decade. Expanding data centers…

Aligning the AI High Performance Computing infrastructure with the ANSI/TIA-942 Ratings resilience model

By TIA Staff | December 10, 2025 | Comments Off on Aligning the AI High Performance Computing infrastructure with the ANSI/TIA-942 Ratings resilience model

Author: Barry Elliott, Director, Capitoline Ltd   The last few years have seen the rise of the Artificial Intelligence High Performance Computing model, or AI HPC, which is typified by Graphic Processing Units, GPUs, exemplified by the NVIDIA GB200/300 NVL72 computers and their supporting infrastructure. Some industry observers have commented that this is like going from ‘servers…

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