Press Releases
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…
TIA Broadens Reach with New Members from Adjacent Industries
Arlington, VA (October 19, 2021) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—has welcomed over 15 new members in 2021, including several companies outside of the traditional telecommunications sector. In the past few months, new members from other industries include: JK Moving Services, Arup, Concert Technologies, Maser Consulting, and Barnes and Thornburg, LLP,…
TIA Issues Final Call for Comments on New SCS 9001 Supply Chain Security Standard
Arlington, VA (October 6, 2021) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—has directly solicited over 100 industry and government organizations for final comments on the ICT industry’s first supply chain security standard. In a fitting start to National Cyber Security Month, TIA is entering the final stages of completion for SCS 9001…
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…