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…

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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…

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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…

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Recent Blogs

TIA Industry Transformation Study: A Results Preview

By TIA | July 26, 2021 | Comments Off on TIA Industry Transformation Study: A Results Preview

The TIA Industry Transformation Study gathered insight from business leaders at TIA member companies who were asked to compare their business priorities for three specific time periods: the year before Covid-19 (2019); the time of the pandemic (2020/21); and the expectations for post-pandemic (2022 and beyond). The questions asked business leaders to compare the biggest…

Software Identification & Traceability: Essential to Securing the ICT Supply Chain

By TIA | July 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Software Identification & Traceability: Essential to Securing the ICT Supply Chain

By Carlos C. Solari, VP of Product Development at SecureG Software identification and traceability (SWID&T) is essential to securing the information communications technology (ICT) supply chain, especially considering the central role software assets play in today’s ICT networks and virtually everything we do. As such, SWID&T controls are key part of SCS 9001, the upcoming…

Zero Trust for Supply Chain: A Critical Aspect of the SCS 9001 Architecture

By TIA | July 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Zero Trust for Supply Chain: A Critical Aspect of the SCS 9001 Architecture

By Dave Sanicola, President of The DESARA Group, TIA Supply Chain Security Work Group Lead The rise of cyberattacks by sophisticated criminals and foreign adversaries threaten to endanger national security, disrupt business continuity, and devastate consumer confidence—all with vast economic consequences. Recent ransomware attacks on the Colonial Pipeline and meat processing giant JBS have significantly…

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