TIA QuEST Forum to Present DCE 9000 Quality Standard Progress at Data Center World Webinar; Sub-Teams Accelerate Draft Development

Arlington, VA (April 29, 2026) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)—enabling the future of trusted digital infrastructure—today announced it will present development milestones, scope, and progress on the Data Center…
TIA Releases New Central Office Evaluation Strategy Paper

New paper outlines considerations for the future deployment of Information and Communications Technology Equipment Arlington, VA (October 25, 2018) – The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading association representing the…
TIA Technology Programs Update Q3 – 2022

Data Center Program We are pleased to welcome new participants Technavious Solutions, Nyveld Networks and Environmental Systems Design. On August 30, we held a Spanish-language webinar on TIA-942 El Standard…
TIA-942 Certification

TIA’s Smart Buildings Program is developing a common framework for the smart buildings ecosystem that unites connectivity, interoperability, communications, and capacity to create a scalable foundation for creating the smart city.
TIA-942 Data Center Infrastructure Standard Keeps Pace with the Evolving Digital World

By Jacques Fluet, Director, Data Center Program at TIA As a leading industry standards development organization, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) membership continually and proactively revises or reaffirms ANSI standards…
TIA’s DCE 9000 Initiative Builds Momentum with New Members, Expanded Collaboration, and Program Milestones

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 11, 2026  — The Telecommunications Industry Association—enabling the future of trusted digital infrastructure,—announced continued momentum for its Data Center Excellence (DCE) 9000 initiative with the addition of eighteen new member…
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,…
Webinar: Data Center Quality Standards: Why AI Infrastructure Needs More Than ISO

The data center industry is struggling to keep up with the unprecedented expansion fueled by the global surge in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. Currently, the industry lacks a…
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…
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…
YOTTA 2025

The Yotta conference is designed to expose attendees to the latest thinking from leaders in compute, network, telecoms, data centers, energy, and beyond. Uniting over 3,000 leaders from the digital…
[Webinar] Data Centers: Where is the Edge?

  Over the past decade, the ICT industry has defined “the Edge” by using an evolving nomenclature and a variety of correlating applications encompassing everything from Far Edge, Near Edge…