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
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…