Collaborative Activities

TIA works closely with the organizations listed on this page. TIA's standards program either directly supports these programs by managing the support of the group, developing documents for contribution or maintaining the technical documents on which the groups rely.

• Fiber Optics LAN Section FOLS - The Fiber Optics LAN Section (FOLS) of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) was formed to provide a resource for end users who want to learn about the advantages fiber optic technology brings to customer-owned local area networks (LANs).


• Third Generation Partnership Project 2 3GPP2 - 3GPP2 was born out of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) International Mobile Telecommunications "IMT-2000" initiative, covering high speed, broadband and Internet Protocol (IP)-based mobile systems featuring network-to-network interconnection, feature/service transparency, global roaming and seamless services independent of location. IMT-2000 is intended to bring high-quality mobile multimedia telecommunications to a worldwide mass market by achieving the goals of increasing the speed and ease of wireless communications, responding to the problems faced by the increased demand to pass data via telecommunications, and providing "anytime, anywhere" services.


• Project Mobility for Emergency & Safety Applications (MESA) (formerly PSPP) 3GPP2 - The purpose of MESA is to collect user requirements and elaborate joint specifications that define applications for mobile broadband technology to be deployed in support of Law Enforcement, International Crime and Terror investigations, Intelligence, Emergency and Medical Services, Fire Fighting, Civil and Homeland Defense, and Disaster Response.


• Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments (ACTA) - ACTA is an open organization established to adopt technical criteria and to act as a clearing-house, publishing technical criteria for terminal equipment developed by ANSI-accredited standards development organizations and establish and maintain a registration database of equipment approved as compliant with the technical criteria.


• International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies. As the global focal point for governments and the private sector, ITU's role in helping the world communicate spans three core sectors: radiocommunication, standardization and development. ITU also organizes TELECOM events and was the lead organizing agency of the World Summit on the Information Society.


• American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - The Institute oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines that directly impact businesses in nearly every sector: from acoustical devices to construction equipment, from dairy and livestock production to energy distribution, and many more. ANSI is also actively engaged in accrediting programs that assess conformance to standards - including globally-recognized cross-sector programs such as the ISO 9000 (quality) and ISO 14000 (environmental) management systems.


• International Forum on ANSI-41 Standards Technology (IFAST) - This organization facilitates the identification and resolution of issues to enable the interoperability of systems between countries, carriers, technologies, and standards, thereby protecting the investment made by the industry in the ANSI-41 family of standards while evolving to a seamless global network.