Press Releases
TIA Applauds Attention to Broadband Included in Sen. Democratic Infrastructure Blueprint
Arlington, VA (January 24, 2017) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today applauded the infrastructure “Blueprint” offered by Senate Democrats for its inclusion of $20 billion to expand broadband. TIA Board Chairman and Interim CEO David Heard commented: “Given the enormous industry investment…
TIA Calls for Trade Rules that Support America’s Digital Leadership
Arlington, VA (January 24, 2017) – Following yesterday’s action by the U.S. to officially withdraw from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, urged the administration of President Donald Trump to promote policies that enable continued U.S. leadership in the…
TIA Applauds Senate Commerce Committee on MOBILE NOW and DIGIT Acts
Arlington, VA (January 24, 2017) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today applauded the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee’s leadership on advancing two important bipartisan pieces of legislation, the MOBILE NOW Act and the Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things Act (DIGIT) Act, critical…
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…