Press Releases
ICT Coalition: India Tariffs Violate WTO Agreements
Arlington, VA (March 29, 2021) – A coalition of seven trade associations including the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), Coalition of Services Industries (CSI), the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), and US-India Business Council (USIBC) today sent a letter to United States…
Telecommunications Industry Association Congratulates Ambassador Tai on Confirmation as U.S. Trade Representative
Arlington, VA (March 17, 2021) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—released a statement to congratulate Ambassador Katherine Tai on her confirmation as United States Trade Representative. “TIA congratulates Ambassador Tai on her recent confirmation as U.S. Trade Representative,” said CEO David Stehlin. “We are excited to work with her and her…
TIA Releases Details on New Global Supply Chain Security Standard, SCS 9001
Arlington, VA (March 15, 2021) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—today published a new white paper on SCS 9001, the first process-based supply chain security standard for the information communications technology (ICT) industry. With sophisticated supply chain cyberattacks on the rise, SCS 9001 is on an accelerated schedule to address the…
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…