Press Releases
TIA Launches Data Center Quality Standard Initiative
Arlington, VA (October 8, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) announces a new initiative to develop an infrastructure-focused Data Center Quality Standard aimed at advancing operational excellence, reliability, and sustainability in the rapidly expanding global data center market. Driven by the growth of AI, cloud computing, and digital services, demand for data centers is…
TIA to Establish Free-Space Optical Communications Standard; Attochron to Lead New Working Group
Arlington, VA (September 8, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association—the trusted industry association for the connected world—today announced it will lead the establishment of U.S. standards for free-space optical communications (FSOC). This effort will be led by a sub-committee of the TR-45 – Mobile and Point-to-Point Communications Standards committee and be called the FSOC Working…
TIA Welcomes U.S.-EU Trade Framework
Arlington, VA (August 21, 2025) – The Telecommunications Industry Association – the trusted industry association for the connected world – released the following statement from TIA’s Patrick Lozada, Director, Global Policy: “TIA welcomes the release of additional details regarding the U.S.-EU Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade. The Framework takes valuable steps…
Recent Blogs
By Jacques Fluet, Data Center Program Director, TIA TIA recently released the Edge Data Center Addendum to the ANSI/TIA-942-B data center infrastructure standard. The Addendum defines requirements for newer “edge” or “micro” data centers, which often come in prefabricated enclosures that are significantly smaller than the more traditional sprawling warehouses. The TIA-942-B-1 addendum is…
By Mike Regan, Vice President of Business Performance, TIA Various trade and standards organizations as well as government agencies from around the world have been developing recommendations to help the global response to rising threats to cybersecurity. For example, the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) developed their Criteria for Security and Trust in Telecommunications…
By Bob Bretall, Lead Consultant, Information Security/Business Continuity, the DESARA Group, Inc. The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is leading the way on ICT supply chain security with the release of the global SCS 9001 standard that specifies verifiable and measurable criteria and uses a process-based quality management system (QMS) to bolster quality and transparency…