Together with its results announcement yesterday, Australia’s Telstra offered up some interesting facts on its ongoing project to transform its IT infrastructure from legacy systems.
In a way, Telstra is a perfect example of what the tech industry has been preaching to its customers for the last couple of years – that old IT systems, operations [...]
Telstra was selected the winner of the inaugural Environmental Responsibility category in the 2008 ACOMM awards, jointly hosted by Australia’s Communications Alliance and CommsDay.
The announcement was made at the Communications Alliance Annual Dinner in Sydney on Wednesday.
The Environmental Responsibility category was open to organisations undertaking initiatives to address corporate responsibility for sustainability and the environment, [...]
Nortel Networks has stepped its ‘Cisco Energy Tax’ campaign up a notch with discounts equivalent to the first year in energy savings for companies migrating to its data transport products.
As Green Telecom reported earlier, Nortel recently coined the term, ‘Cisco Energy Tax’ after a test it commissioned, and carried out by independent test lab, the [...]
VNL, a Swedish and Indian start-up headed by an ex-Ericsson executive, Anil Raj, claims to have re-engineered the GSM network architecture to support cheap and ultra low power base stations for extending coverage to rural areas.
The systems, called WorldGSM, is a result of four years of development and includes a solar powered solution for roof [...]
As the world’s biggest manufacturing of computer microprocessors, you can say that Intel is at the heart of the information revolution. Throughout the years, the company has managed to reduce the energy consumption of its chips in the market place, but can its own efforts to reduce emissions compete with the global demand of its [...]
Big Blue, and now Big Green, IBM, has unveiled plans to build a US$360 million data centre at its facility in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. The company will renovate an existing building at the site to create “one of the most technologically advanced and energy efficient data centres in the world.”
“The new data [...]
NTT Communications announced that it will deploy Juniper Network’s T1600 core routers over some 20% of its network to scale up capacity as well as reduce energy consumption. Key considerations for the selection included the non-disruptive upgrade path from the T640 to the multi-terabit capacity and energy efficiency advantages of the T1600.
“To support rapid increase [...]
Korea’s KT will include a renewable energy unit in is articles of association by the end of this year.
The country’s incumbent fixed line operator reportedly reached an agreement at a meeting of its corporate social responsibility committee meeting in early July to set up a renewable energy unit and to expand its environmental management organization [...]
Contact centre outsourcing specialist PCI is building a new unified communications contact centre facility in Melbourne using energy-efficient network solutions from Nortel and Platinum nPower channel partner Commander.
It’s been a long time since I’ve written about advances in clean energy regeneration, but it is always an area of interest and I follow it on my spared time or whenever I can, simply because it is so much like the telecoms industry circa 1997.
What caught my eye this week and prompted to do [...]
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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 [...]