Press Releases
TIA Invites Industry to Participate in Development of New Supply Chain Security Standard Program
Arlington, VA (April 02, 2020) –– The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today announced that it is creating a new and critically-needed supply chain security standard for the Information Communications Technology (ICT) industry and that team and sub-team roles are open for participation. The initiative is being…
TIA Announces Details for Smart Buildings Webinar Featuring Leaders from Corning, Microsoft, and T-Mobile
Arlington, VA (March 26, 2020) –– The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today announced details for an upcoming live webinar featuring experts from Corning, Microsoft, and T-Mobile. TIA is actively working to develop industry-accepted smart building standards and assessment criteria through its Smart Building Program that brings together…
TIA Launches Series of New Briefing Papers on Edge Data Centers
Arlington, VA (March 24, 2020) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today released a series of new informational briefing papers from its Edge Data Center Working Group. The papers are a first step towards creating an industry-driven framework for future standards development. Each paper…
Recent Blogs
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…
The rapid expansion of AI is reshaping the data center industry at a pace few sectors have experienced. Demand for compute is accelerating, infrastructure is scaling rapidly, and expectations for uptime and performance continue to rise. In a recent webinar, TIA’s Mike Regan and Google’s Govind Ramu examined how this shift is exposing gaps in…
From streaming and cloud services to AI and enterprise applications, nearly every aspect of the modern digital economy depends on highly reliable data centers. As capacity scales rapidly and operating environments grow more demanding, infrastructure reliability, resilience, performance, and efficiency become mission‑critical priorities. Standardized approaches to data center design and to the quality of the infrastructure supply chain are…