Press Releases
TIA Announces Newly Elected Leaders for Standards Committee TR-14
Arlington, VA (May 2, 2019) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today announced the election of new leadership for its TR-14 Structural Standards for Communication and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures Engineering Committee. Bryan Lanier, Director of Customer Engineering at American Tower, will…
TIA Launches “Enhance and Improve Your Supply Chain with TL 9000” Webinar Series
Arlington, VA (April 24, 2019) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, announced a new webinar series for supply chain managers and professionals focused on how the TL 9000 standard can improve predictability and lower an organization’s risk in their supply chain. Initially developed…
TIA Urges Congress to Pass USMCA, Points to Economic Benefits Outlined in New Report
Arlington, VA (April 18, 2019) –– The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today welcomed the release of the U.S. International Trade Commission’s report on the likely economic impact of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). TIA’s Senior Vice President for Government Affairs Cinnamon Rogers said: “This report makes clear…
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…