By Petroc Wilton, Communications Day
Internode is searching for ways to reduce the carbon footprint of the new $3 million data centre it plans to install in Adelaide. After being awarded ‘CO2-neutral’ status in a recent carbon audit, the firm is now looking at other green initiatives in Australia and abroad for examples of environmentally friendly [...]
By CommsDay
Wireless network operating expenditure will top $22 billion within five years thanks to rising power costs. But advances in green computing and mobile base station efficiency will begin mitigating against those increases a year earlier, according to a new prediction by ABI Research.
The firm believes dynamic network dimensioning, better hardware integration and other solutions [...]
By Sonia Han, Communications Day
Telstra has introduced a ‘green’ installation at its Melbourne office, using it to tout the “vital” importance of the proposed National Broadband Network in reducing carbon emissions and increasing productivity.
Last week, Telstra installed a 5 kilowatt hydrogen (H) fuel cell test facility at its Melbourne head office, which it claims to [...]
By Sonia Han, CommsDay
A new survey has found that only 22% of Australian businesses have practices in place to measure carbon emissions, 36% have no practices in place but are interested in evaluating them, and 33% have no plans to measure carbon emissions.
According to the annual survey of Sun Microsystems’ ANZ customers, out of the [...]
Former Big Blue and now Big Green, IBM, is set to unveil a new consultancy service aimed at helping its customers go green. The offering is not simply about reducing companies’ impact on the environment, but also include a whole set of metrics, from carbon management to labour practices that will increase competitive positioning, the [...]
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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 [...]