Telecommunications Industry Association
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The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop voluntary, consensus-based industry standards for a wide variety of ICT products, and currently represents nearly 400 companies. TIA's Standards and Technology Department operates twelve engineering committees, which develop guidelines for private radio equipment, cellular towers, data terminals, satellites, telephone terminal equipment, accessibility
Accessibility
Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity...

, VoIP devices, structured cabling
Structured cabling
Structured cabling is building or campus telecommunications cabling infrastructure that consists of a number of standardized smaller elements called subsystems.Structured cabling falls into six subsystems:...

, data centers, mobile device communications, multimedia multicast, vehicular telematics, healthcare ICT, machine-to-machine communications, and smart utility networks.

Overall, more than 500 active participants, from telecommunications equipment manufacturers, service providers, government agencies, academic institutions, and end-users, are engaged in TIA’s standards setting process. To ensure that these standards become incorporated globally, TIA is also engaged in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

TIA Standards

The Telecommunication Industry Association's most widely adopted standards include:
  1. TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers
  2. TIA/EIA-568-C (telecommunications cabling standards, used by nearly all voice, video and data networks).
  3. TIA-569-B Commercial Building Standards for Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces
  4. TIA J-STD-607
    TIA J-STD-607
    Covering the grounding and bonding requirements for a building’s electrical system and telecommunications cabling infrastructure, TIA J-STD-607-B is an American National Standard created by the Telecommunications Industry Association, which facilitates the design and installation of telecom...

     (Commercial grounding - earthing - standards)
  5. TIA/EIA-598 (Fiber optic
    Optical fiber cable
    An optical fiber cable is a cable containing one or more optical fibers. The optical fiber elements are typically individually coated with plastic layers and contained in a protective tube suitable for the environment where the cable will be deployed....

     color coding)
  6. TIA-222-G Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting Structures and Antennas
  7. TIA-602-A Data Transmission Systems and Equipment, which standardized the common basic Hayes command set
    Hayes command set
    The Hayes command set is a specific command-language originally developed for the Hayes Smartmodem 300 baud modem in 1981. The command set consists of a series of short text strings which combine together to produce complete commands for operations such as dialing, hanging up, and changing the...

    .
  8. TIA-102 - Land Mobile Communications for Public Safety (APCO/P25
    P25
    Project 25 is a suite of standards for digital radio communications for use by federal, state/province and local public safety agencies in North America to enable them to communicate with other agencies and mutual aid response teams in emergencies...

    )

Engineering Committees

  • TR-8  Mobile and Personal Private Radio Standards - develops public safety
    Public Safety
    Public safety involves the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety of the general public from significant danger, injury/harm, or damage, such as crimes or disasters .-See also:* By nation...

     and radio equipment standards
  • TR-14  Point-to-Point Communications Systems - develops cellular tower structure standards
  • TR-30  Multi-Media Access, Protocols and Interfaces - develops terminal equipment
    Terminal equipment
    In telecommunication, the term terminal equipment has the following meanings:* Communications equipment at either end of a communications link, used to permit the stations involved to accomplish the mission for which the link was established....

     standards
  • TR-34  Satellite Equipment & Systems - develops satellite equipment standards for DVB-S
    DVB-S
    DVB-S is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Satellite; it is the original Digital Video Broadcasting forward error coding and demodulation standard for satellite television and dates from 1994, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997...

     and Quality of service
    Quality of service
    The quality of service refers to several related aspects of telephony and computer networks that allow the transport of traffic with special requirements...

     (QoS) over IP protocols
  • TR-41  User Premises Telecommunications Requirements - develops analog telephone, digital telephone, and VoIP standards
  • TR-42  Telecommunications Cabling Systems - develops structured cabling
    Structured cabling
    Structured cabling is building or campus telecommunications cabling infrastructure that consists of a number of standardized smaller elements called subsystems.Structured cabling falls into six subsystems:...

    (fiber optic, copper
    Copper
    Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...

    ) and data center
    Data center
    A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...

     standards
  • TR-45  Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards - develops CDMA and WiMax
    WiMAX
    WiMAX is a communication technology for wirelessly delivering high-speed Internet service to large geographical areas. The 2005 WiMAX revision provided bit rates up to 40 Mbit/s with the 2011 update up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations...

     air interface
    Air interface
    In mobile or wireless communication, the air interface is the radio-based communication link between the mobile station and the active base station...

     and cellular
    Cellular
    Cellular may refer to:*Cellular automaton, a model in discrete mathematics*Cellular , a 2004 movie*Cellular frequencies, assigned to networks operating in cellular RF bands*Cellular manufacturing...

     standards
  • TR-47  Terrestrial Mobile Multimedia Multicast - develops multimedia multicast standards based on the DVB-M protocol
  • TR-48  Vehicular Telematics - develops telematics
    Telematics
    Telematics typically is any integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as ICT...

     data transmission standards for vehicle manufacturers and fleet management
  • TR-49  Healthcare ICT - develops healthcare standards related to telecommunications networks
  • TR-50  Smart Device Communications - develops machine-to-machine standards for enabling IP-enabled communication between devices and servers
  • TR-51  Smart Utility Networks - develops utility mesh network standards for enabling communication between metering device nodes and utility company systems.

Collaborative Activities

TIA is a participating standards organization of the Global Standards Collaboration
Global Standards Collaboration
The "Global Standards Collaboration" started life as The "Inter-regional Telecommunications Standards conference in 1990. This was an initiative of the T1 Committee of the United States who invited the other founding partner organizations ITU-T, ETSI and the Japanese TTC to the first ISC Meeting...

 initiative. It has created a Machine-to-Machine Standardization Task Force (MSTF) to foster industry collaboration on M2M
M2M
M2M is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:-Computing:* M2M , an implementation of the Object Management Group's QVT standard for model transformation* Many-to-many , as an entity-relationship model...

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