Press Releases
TIA Commends FCC for Reactivating Equipment Authorization System
Arlington, VA (January 18, 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 FCC’s public notice to reactivate its equipment authorization system. TIA’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Cinnamon Rogers said: “TIA commends the FCC for reactivating its…
TIA and IoT Community Announce Collaboration to Accelerate Smart Buildings and the Internet of Things
Arlington, VA (January 17, 2019) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, and the Internet of Things Community® (IoT Community®), the world’s largest and longest standing global independent IoT Community, today announced an agreement to accelerate the digital transformation of the Internet of Things…
Prolonged Government Shutdown Could Impact 5G Rollout, Says TIA
Arlington, VA (January 11, 2019) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today issued the following statement on the 20th day of the government shutdown. TIA Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Cinnamon Rogers said: “This government shutdown will soon be the longest in…
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…