AT&T Services Inc. announced that it has joined The Green Grid while revealing it will also participate in a new program by the US Environmental Protection Agency to develop a new Energy Star rating system for data centre infrastructures.
“Managing the energy we use in an efficient way is crucial to staying competitive — a commitment [...]
By Sonia Han, Communications Day
Telstra has opened a high definition video collaboration ‘Executive Briefing Centre’ in Melbourne, linking Polycom RealPresence suites in Melbourne and Sydney. The new centre installed a 3-dimensional TV, which it claims is the first commercial deployment of 3D content in Australia.
The EBC is the flagship of Telstra’s ‘Executive Briefing Network’, which [...]
New Zealand’s TelstraClear is working with Australia’s Telstra on a solution that will link up cities across the Tasmanian Sea with Cisco’s Telepresence systems.
The companies announced on Monday that it will deployed Telepresence systems in Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, linking the nodes up over their respective IP infrastructures. The solution will initially be [...]
By Sonia Han, Communications Day
Vodafone Australia has completed its implementation of network planning and optimisation tools, which its supplier claims will allow the company to design networks more efficiently.
Vodafone selected radio frequency planning tool Atoll and optimisation tool Radioplan as the corporate-wide platform for both its 2G and 3G networks. Australian consulting firm TeleResources is [...]
By Sonia Han, Communications Day
A new report from 3 Mobile has claimed that small businesses are boosting mobile usage to drive down fuel expenses.
The study ‘Petrol, Business Mobility and Communications’ surveyed 1278 businesses nationwide. 93% of respondents believe that rising petrol costs are impacting their organization and approximately 40% of them said this had an [...]
The world’s biggest computer chip maker, Intel, will share its technology and expertise in deploying green data centres with a newly formed regional alliance of data centre operators.
In an unprecedented deal announced last week, four data centre operators in South East Asia have formed an alliance to offer one-stop services across their facilities in their [...]
While the industry has focused on making its infrastructure more energy efficient, one area that has not exactly been discussed is how to make the industry itself more efficient. There are some examples of this trend, such as infrastructure sharing by mobile operators, and Nokia Siemens Network’s development of a multi-operator RAN solution, but for [...]
Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, has joined The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing environments. Green Grid has close to 200 member companies, including 11 founding members (AMD, APC, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rackable Systems, SprayCool, Sun Microsystems and VMWare), who also [...]
A war of words is brewing between Nortel and Cisco on the energy efficiency front as the two companies head towards a direct confrontation on the energy consumption characteristics of their respective product portfolios.
In an unprecedented marketing move, Nortel is targeting Cisco specifically in a focused campaign that claims its rival’s equipment consumes more energy [...]
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 [...]