TIA Issues Call for Interest on new Project for Standard for Sustainable Information Communications Technology

Stakeholders Invited to Contact TIA Regarding Participation.

Arlington VA. (July 6, 2021) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-42.1 Engineering Committee on Premises Telecommunications Infrastructure has issued a call for interest for document TIA-4994 initially titled “Standard for Sustainable Information Communications Technology”. TR-42.1 is developing guidelines in the area defined by the following scope: ” This Standard addresses the requirements associated with the planning, architecture, design, integration and operation of sustainable information communications technology (ICT). Justifications: This standard describes sustainable concepts for ICT such as lowering energy consumption, reducing material consumption and mitigating the environmental impact.”

The stakeholders may include, but are not limited to: Cabling system designers, consultants, architects, engineers; manufacturers, end user, contractors, integrators.

TIA is actively seeking participation in these projects from the user and general interest communities.

For more information about TR-42 and how to participate in standards development with TIA, contact Cheryl Thibideau at standards@tiaonline.org.

A major function of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is the writing and maintenance of voluntary industry standards and specifications. These activities are carried out by the volunteer members of TIA engineering committees. On the public engineering committee pages, users will find recent meeting reports, agendas and notices for upcoming meetings, as well as links to some of the most popular standards from each committee. TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).