Nortel Networks has embarked on a major internal project to consolidate and simplify its internal IT infrastructure by as much as 90% over the next two years.
Eric Lauzon, Nortel’s CIO, Asia, revealed to Green Telecom, CommsDay that the company is in the process of overhauling its IT infrastructure in a global project that will dramatically [...]
By Sonia Han, Communications Day
A gathering of political heavyweights in Korea has heard that investment in new telecoms networks can play a key role in tackling global warming.
Speaking at the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy, Telstra director of innovation projects for the digital future Chloe Munro said communications investment was [...]
Deutsche Telekom’s international arm, T-Systems, announced over the weekend that it will build a new 30,000 square feet ‘green’ data centre as part of an initiative to boost its operations in Singapore.
The company plans to invest an estimated “two-digit million” Singapore dollars in its new infrastructure over the next five years. The new data centre [...]
Video communications is hip ahead thanks to the growing awareness of telepresence solution.
“For a long time, video was out, nobody wanted it,” says Michael Schellenberg, Head of Competency Centre for Orange Business Services, who launched a global Cisco TelePresence service yesterday at the Cisco Expo 2008 in Hong Kong. “But now with the market awareness [...]
In a new report release this week, research firm Ovum highlighted three factors that can benefit the telecommunications sector as a result of the impacts of climate change. The report, entitled Surfing the green wave in telecom, takes a close look at the potential impacts and opportunities from the challenges presented by climate change on [...]
Video communications specialist Tandberg will rely on a standards-based approach to drive growth of its telepresence systems – branded Experia.
Lars Ronning, Tandbeg’s president, Asia Pacific, excluding China and Japan, told CommsDay that while telepresence has seen greater adoption and awareness in the industry, one of the key differentiators for the company against its competitors is [...]
The drive for energy efficiency to reduce operations costs and corporate carbon emissions has led to operators replacing equipment from other vendors with new energy efficient base stations from Nokia Siemens Networks.
Since the introduction of the company’s latest generation of equipment, the Flexi Base Station, 14 months ago, 22 operators in 15 countries have replaced [...]
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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 [...]