Green Telecom interview with Anne Larilahti, Head of Environmentally Sustainable Business, Nokia Siemens Networks
Green Telecom: What is Nokia Siemens Networks doing on the environmental front?
Anne Larilahti: We have focus on reducing the energy consumption across the mobile networks. That has been very much a focus. We have different software features and technologies helping us there. [...]
China’s ZTE’s Broadband Universal Access System has been awarded the Best Green Innovation award at Convergence World 2008 at SOFTNET in London, UK.
“Operators are becoming increasingly aware of their responsibility towards the environment,” said Zhang Xinyu, director, global market, fixed network management team at ZTE. “ZTE’s DSLAM solution enables broadband providers to radically reduce their [...]
While the implementation of teleworking programs have proven to be one of the key initiatives for reducing an organizations carbon footprint, establishing a successful virtual office program requires careful planning to ensure employee support and allay lost-of-control fears, says research house, Gartner.
According to Gartner, 41.4 million corporate employees globally are expected to spend at least [...]
Nokia Siemens Network has been selected by Slovenian operator, Tusmobil, for the supply of 400 environmentally-friendly base stations to expand capacity and optimize core network efficiency.
The upgrade will significantly improve network efficiency and coverage, allowing Tusmobil to offer new services to its customers, including high-speed mobile data and multimedia, like mobile television, NSN said. The [...]
CEOs from around the world and across diverse industries plan to increase corporate social responsibility (CSR) investments significantly over the next three years, according to a new global survey by IBM.
The study, titled “The Enterprise of the Future” was conducted by IBM Global Busines Services in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit and involved face-to-face [...]
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 [...]