Press Releases

TIA Files Spectrum Frontiers Comments with FCC; Offers Strong Support and Specific Plans to Achieve Key Marketplace Goals

Arlington, VA (September 30, 2016) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today filed comments responding to the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on its Spectrum Frontiers program, which opens several new bands of high-frequency “millimeter-wave” spectrum above 24…

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IoT ecosystem expands significantly with new global standards from oneM2M

Arlington, VA (September 29, 2016) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), a founding Partner of the oneM2M, the global standards initiative for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things (IoT), announces that the full potential of the IoT advanced significantly today with the publication of a new landmark set of oneM2M specifications, Release 2….

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TIA Premieres New Documentary at IoT Week – The Internet of Things: Connecting it All

Arlington, Va. (September 22, 2016) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, today premiered a new documentary, “The Internet of Things: Connecting it All.” The video is the latest installment in TIA’s Network of the Future Documentary Series, and it explores the obstacles that the…

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Recent Blogs

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…

Why AI Infrastructure Needs More Than ISO: Reimagining Quality for the Data Center Era

By TIA Staff | June 2, 2026 | Comments Off on Why AI Infrastructure Needs More Than ISO: Reimagining Quality for the Data Center Era

The rapid expansion of AI is reshaping the data center industry at a pace few sectors have experienced. Demand for compute is accelerating, infrastructure is scaling rapidly, and expectations for uptime and performance continue to rise. In a recent webinar, TIA’s Mike Regan and Google’s Govind Ramu examined how this shift is exposing gaps in…

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