Telecommunications Industry Association

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The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is a global trade association headquartered in the United States that represents about 600 telecommunications companies. TIA helps create universal networking and education standards for the telephony, data networking, and convergence industry. TIA has helped develop networking standards that have been used worldwide, including:

TIA/EIA-568-B (telecommunications cabling standards, used by nearly all voice, video and data networks).
TIA J-STD-607 (Commercial grounding - earthing - standards)
TIA/EIA-598- (Fiber optic color coding)

TIA endorses sponsor of the Convergence Technologies Professional certification.

TIA is co-owner of SUPERCOMM, a trade show for the telecommunications industry that is jointly owned with USTelecom. In 2009, SUPERCOMM will be held in Chicago from June 8 to July 11.

Verizon President and Chief Operating Officer Denny Strigl and Sprint Nextel President and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Hesse were the keynotes at the 2008 trade show, held in June at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

TIA is a participating standards organization of the Global Standards Collaboration initiative.