Press Releases

Broadband Nation Expo Opens Call for Speakers and Announces 2025 Advisory Board

NEW YORK, April 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Questex’s Fierce Network today announces the Call for Speakers for Broadband Nation Expo 2025, the nation’s largest meeting ground for end-to-end broadband deployment and innovation. Now in its third year, the event is moving to Orlando, Florida, where it will take place November 17-19, 2025, bringing together industry leaders, policymakers, and technology…

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More than 600 Global Data Centers Certified Under TIA-942 Standard, which Delivers Improved Performance and Efficiency

Arlington, VA (Mar. 26, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world — today announced that approximately 100 global facilities have been certified under TIA’s latest revision to the Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, ANSI/TIA-942 Revision C. Since its inception more than 600 data centers across 51 countries and 6 continents have…

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TIA Congratulates 2024 Star and QuEST Forum Award Winners

Arlington, VA (February 27, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—has announced the winners of the organization’s two annual awards programs: the TIA Star Awards and the TIA QuEST Forum Awards. TIA gives awards to the most engaged members who contribute to the advancement of the global ICT industry through TIA initiatives….

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Recent Blogs

DCE 9000 Is Moving Fast Because the Industry Can’t Wait

By TIA Staff | September 19, 2026 | Comments Off on DCE 9000 Is Moving Fast Because the Industry Can’t Wait

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…

Why Data Center Infrastructure Needs Its Own Quality Standard

By Mike Regan | July 14, 2026 | Comments Off on Why Data Center Infrastructure Needs Its Own Quality Standard

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…

Understanding TIA-942: A Q&A with Tom McGarry

By TIA Staff | June 11, 2026 | Comments Off on Understanding TIA-942: A Q&A with Tom McGarry

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…

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