About This Journal

tia2015.org is a small independent journal about the networks that carry modern life: mobile, fiber, cloud, the Internet of Things and the quiet infrastructure underneath them. We write in plain English for people who build, buy or simply depend on these systems.

Independent, and not the former conference

This address once belonged to the website of a 2015 industry conference. That event is over, its website is gone, and we took over the expired domain. We are not affiliated with the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), and we have no connection with the conference's organizers, sponsors, partners or speakers. We kept the old site's general look and its subject matter because both seemed worth keeping. Nothing here should be taken as coming from those people or organizations.

What we publish

• Tracks and Workshops: explainers on mobile networks, new services, infrastructure, RF, SDN and oneM2M.
• Keynotes: longer essays by our editors, with no stage and no lanyard.
• Policy Day and Stadium Tour: features on spectrum rules and on the world's most stressed venue networks.
• Casino Tech: how gaming and betting companies use networks, from slot accounting to in-play latency.

Why casinos and betting?

It might look like an odd fit, but few industries put networks under so much pressure. Sportsbooks measure success in fractions of a second, lotteries must never lose a ticket, and casino resorts run private networks of remarkable complexity. We write about this sector as engineers and observers. We do not operate any gaming service.

How we work

We check facts against public sources and flag estimates as estimates. Photographs come mostly from Wikimedia Commons and are credited under each image. If something is wrong, tell us through the contact page and we will fix it.