The world’s biggest mobile operator, China Mobile, released its first corporate social responsibility report this month, outlining its commitments to help sustainable economic and social growth in China, as well as pledging to reduce its impact on the environment through energy efficiency and waste management programs.
Commenting in the report, China Mobile’s president, Wang Jianzhou, [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) says that operators installing cell sites in remote locations will select renewable energy as their first choice by as early as 2011.
Pointing to the requirements of operators in fast growing emerging markets where electricity grids are not always available, NSN says that renewable energy such as wind and solar is now [...]
The International Telecommunications Union is looking to take a more active role in the establishment of standards that bridge the telecommunications and automotive industries. Early in March, the ITU held its Fully Networked Car event during the Geneva Motor Show to promote idea of taking advantage of information and communications technology to reduce the impact [...]
German nuclear power utility, Yello Strom, and Microsoft Germany have developed the Yello Sparzahler, an online meter that lets users know exactly how they are using energy in their homes. The meter provides second-to-second usage data from appliances such as the refrigerator, stove, stereo system, and the water heater. The information is available to users [...]
Researchers at Oxford University aims to develop software that will optimise PC power consumption by making it easier for end-users and IT administrators to turn machines off when not in use.
According to Oxford University, up to 50% of PCs in UK businesses and institutions are permanently turned on, while typical workplace computers are only used [...]
A new survey by Greenpeace to find ‘green’ electronic devices available on the market in 2007 yield overwhelmingly disappointing results, with only three out of 37 products tested scoring higher than then the half way mark of 5 out of 10 possible points, with the highest score from all the products maxing out at 5.3 [...]
Competition in the market for high-definition videoconferencing, often referred to as telepresence, heated up this week with all the major systems vendors announcing initiatives to drive sales of both systems and services. All the main systems vendors, including Cisco, Tandberg, Polycom, and HP made major pitches with partnership announcements, new product enhancements or customer successes.
The [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]