Press Releases
TIA Applauds Bipartisan Agreement on USMCA
Arlington, VA (December 10, 2019) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today issued the following statement in response to the announcement of a bipartisan agreement to pass the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA): David Stehlin, TIA’s Chief Executive Officer, issued the following statement: “TIA…
TIA Congratulates Fifth Annual Global Sustainability Award Winners
Arlington, VA (December 3, 2019) –– The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, announced its 2019 Annual Global Sustainability Awards recognizing select companies for their outstanding performance and innovation in sustainability. This year, awards were selected across five categories: Ericsson won the 2019 Global Sustainability…
TIA Applauds Department of Commerce Rules Implementing Executive Order on Communications Equipment Security
Arlington, VA (November 26, 2019) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today issued the following statement in response to the Department of Commerce promulgating rules to implement the President’s Executive Order on communications equipment security. David Stehlin, TIA’s Chief Executive Officer, issued 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…