A new focus group has been set up by the International Telecommunications Union to work on standards related to the impact of information and communication technologies on climate change. The new group will focus in particular on the reduction of ICT emissions and how ICTs can assist in cutting emissions in other industry sectors such [...]
A new report by Insight Research claims that the telecommunications industry has the potential to abate as much as US$1.2 trillion worth in carbon emissions in the next five years by simply repackaging existing services into “green communications.”
The report, “Communicating Green: Telecommunications Value in Promoting Environmental Improvement, 2008-2013,” evaluated the use of existing telecommunications technologies [...]
HP and Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) will set up the city’s first “green” ICT solutions centre. The Centre will be located inside NYP and aims to train some 2,400 students and industry professionals on sustainable ICT solutions over the next three years.
The NYP-HP Green ICT Solutions Centre is expected to serve as a platform for [...]
The world’s biggest semiconductor maker will spin off solar technology it has developed to a new start up called SpectraWatt Inc. Intel will also lead the first round of funding for SpectraWatt worth US$50 million. Other investors include Cogentrix Energy – a Goldman Sachs subsidiary, PCG Clean Energy and Technology Fund, and Germany’s Solon AG.
Intel’s [...]
UK mobile operator, Orange, has found a new source of energy for charging your mobile phone – dancing. Marketed as the result of months of research into alternate, sustainable energy sources to power mobile phones during summer music festivals – a la Glastonbury, the Orange Dance Charger uses kinetic energy to generate electrical power for [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
IBM and Juniper Networks signed a five-year, data center hosting agreement where IBM will support Juniper’s global operations. IBM’s new “greenest” data center in North America, which it opened last month in Boulder, runs on an environmentally friendly solution for more scale, said Juniper’s CIO, Michele Goins.
According to Goins, the company turned [...]
Deloitte has entered into a new global agreement with Nortel for the supply of managed telepresence and open standards-based video conferencing services for up to 130 Deloitte member firm locations around the world.
“Being able to meet clients and colleagues in real time without travel is an efficient, effective and environmentally considerate way to address their [...]
By Sonia Han, Communications Day
ICT services company Dimension Data has launched ‘Office Sustainability Services’, a suite of four service modules which it claims are designed to provide an integrated ICT approach to developing and executing greenhouse gas emission reduction initiatives.
The four modules making up the services are accounting and reporting, stakeholder engagement, opportunity analysis and [...]
By CommsDay
Just 3% of subscribers recycle their handsets, according to a new survey by Nokia. Three out of four respondents admitted they don’t consider recycling when upgrading to a new phone and nearly half said they didn’t even know recycling was an option.
Activists have grown increasingly concerned about the fate of discarded handsets on fears [...]
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 [...]