Press Releases
TIA will Partner with DCIA
Arlington, Va. (December 6, 2017) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech connectivity networks today announced an agreement to partner with the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), a trade organization dedicated to connecting companies, content, and consumers to the cloud. Over the next several months, the…
TIA Congratulates Rep. Walden on Election as Energy & Commerce Chair
Arlington, VA (December 1, 2016) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today congratulated U.S. Representative Greg Walden (R-OR) for his election as Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. TIA Interim CEO David Heard commented: “TIA has worked with Rep. Walden for…
TIA and Tech Industry Ask President-elect Trump to Support Innovation Policies
Industry-wide letter offers recommendations to Trump Transition Team WASHINGTON (November 30, 2016)—Today 17 tech trade-group leaders representing the broad U.S. technology industry have joined together to write to President-elect Donald Trump about how to leverage technology for the benefit of the nation and the American people. In a joint letter to the president-elect, the technology…
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…