The CEOs of some leading technology companies have called on US policymakers to leverage tech solutions to enhance energy efficiency and combat climate change.
As part of Earth Day, the Technology CEO Council (TCC) sent Congress a broad framework to guide government policy and private sector priorities on energy use. TCC also released a new interactive [...]
Singapore Telecom announced that it will build a new 150,000 sq ft data centre facility at the city’s Kim Chuan industrial area. The new facility, dubbed Kim Chuan Telecommunications Centre 2 (KCTC-2) will be SingTel’s fifth data centre in its home market and pushes the operator’s total data centre volume to more than half a [...]
Ericsson was awarded the China Green Company Award from China Entrepreneur magazine, Enterprise Institute and Guanghua School of Management of Beijing University as part of an annual conference on corporate social responsibility.
According to Ericsson, ‘green’ is defined as the harmonious co-existence not only between man and nature, but also among human beings, the latter of [...]
By Patrick Neighly, CommsDay
AT&T has launched a global telepresence service based on Cisco technology. The scalable solution will roll out in 23 nations by the end of year following current trials with select multinationals.
The managed service allows collaborators to effect live meetings from remote locations and is expected to be the first in a series [...]
Australia’s M2 Telecommunications, a reseller of Optus’ mobile network services, is looking for strategic alliance partners to further expand its Green Mobiles-branded product to environmentally conscious consumers.
Green Mobiles, launched in September 2007, promises customers a 10% donation towards purchasing carbon offsets for every dollar they spend with the company. Unlike many other “green” products, the [...]
Satellites are highlighted by the High Tech: Low Carbon report by the EICTA as one of the most efficient networking solutions in terms of reducing carbon emissions.
“With access to sunshine reserves 1 billion times greater than those that reach the earth, space-related technologies are truly disruptive technologies that offer dramatic potential for replacing traditional terrestrial [...]
Korea Telecom revealed a three-stage green management roadmap that will drive sustainability at the corporate level as well as explore growth opportunities with green solutions and renewable energy generation by 2012.
According to the Korea Times newspaper, KT’s will adopt sustainability measures, raise awareness, secure eco-friendly technologies and adapt of international accords on climate change in [...]
Sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson first wrote about data havens in his 1999 book, Cryptonomicon, which among other themes, featured a main protagonist who is building a large facility in South East Asia for storing the escalating amount of data in the world.
Then back in 2000, a 21-year-old MIT dropout named Ryan Lackey founded the world’s [...]
A new report by the World Economic Forum highlights the need for innovation in the energy sector in order to establish energy security for the future.
“The challenge of transforming the energy system is tremendous, given the size of the capital requirements, the need for new technology and market adoption. Our report not only demonstrates 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 [...]