Video communications solutions provider, Tandberg, has been contracted for 2,300 video conferencing systems inside New South Wales schools. The two year project will bring video communications capability to all schools, and extend the classroom out to offsite locations such as scientific research centres and even to NASA in the US. According to Lars Ronning, Tandberg [...]

While the rest of the industry is moving full steamed towards data centre consolidation to reduce overheads and improve efficiency, IBM has introduced three new platforms that allow enterprise and existing data centre operators to improve their existing infrastructure without a massive migration to bigger facilities. The three new offerings, Enterprise Modular Data Centre, Portable [...]

Vodafone Group has publicly committed to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2020 from a 2006/2007 baseline of 1.23 million tonnes. The company has already reduced the amount of carbon emissions relative to network traffic by 29% and improved the energy efficiency of new network equipment by 25% in the 2006/2007 period. Read the [...]

US carrier Verizon has published its own set of energy efficiency guidelines for equipment purchases after 1 January 2009. Equipment purchases after that date is expected to be at least 20% more efficient than today’s products, the company said. The guidelines will include optical and video transport systems, switches and routers, DSLAM high speed Internet [...]

India-based provider of passive infrastructure for the telecoms industry, Acme Tele Power Limited, launched a new ‘Energy Management Solution’ for telecom sites with a new charging scheme that is based on the energy costs saved by its customers. ‘Energy Management Solution,’ which incorporates ACME products, including multi-operator Green Shelters, wide-range and networked Power Interface Units, [...]

Apple Computers has reportedly filed a patent titled “solar cells on portable devices” that would pave the way for solar-powered devices such as the portable music players, mobile phones and laptop computers. The patent, attributed to several Apple employees, covers the integration of solar cells into portable devices, but instead of the traditional panels, the [...]

In this exclusive interview with Ericsson’s Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Elaine Weidman, Green Telecom’s editor Tony Chan finds out about the company’s approach to, not only managing its own environmental impact, but support the success of its customers towards a new carbon lean economy. Green Telecom: So tell us about Ericsson’s CSR initiatives? Elaine [...]

by CommsDay Cisco Systems will shave 25% from its global operations’ greenhouse gas emissions within four years. The network infrastructure giant made the vow at this week’s Cisco Live event, with CEO John Chambers admitting the company generated 724,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalents last year via facilities, manufacturing and transport. It hopes to slash [...]

Cisco Systems new Data Centre 3.0 strategy not only comes with a new series of data centre switches that push switching capacity inside the data centre to the terabit level, but also key “pillars” that address both energy and operational efficiency. In this feature interview, Green Telecom talks to Cisco vice president and general manager [...]

Eltek Valere unveiled its green product line – Flatpack2 HE – to wireless and fixed line service providers at CommunicAsia 2008. As reported earlier by Green Telecom, the Flatpack2 HE DC power system is based on a new 2000-Watt rectifier module that offers 96 percent efficiency – the highest in the industry. The rectifier cuts [...]