More than half of the Asian companies listed under the telecommunications services category failed to respond or chose not to respond to the 2008 Carbon Disclosure Project, which asks leading global corporations to disclose their emission levels and strategies.
More than 3,000 companies across different industries were sent questionnaires as part of this year’s CDP – [...]
A new alliance between Google and GE is looking to advance the US electricity grid in order to support emerging renewable energy deployments. The companies announced at Google’s Zeitgeist conference that they will work together to develop both technology and policy initiatives to facilitate additional capacity and capabilities on the electricity grid.
The companies said the [...]
A new survey has confirmed earlier findings that the adoption of green IT practices is still year’s away. According to new report by Springboard Research, only 26% of Australian businesses have implemented environment-friendly IT practices while 50% believe that they will introduce a Green IT strategy in the next two-three years.
The report, titled “Green IT [...]
The industry body representing mobile operators globally has launched a new programme with the aim of powering up to 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries with renewable energy sources by 2012.
While focused primarily at operators in emerging markets with poor or limited power grids, the Green Power for Mobile programme, with [...]
Huawei Technologies announced that Pakistani telecom operator, Warid Telecom, has deployed the country’s first solar powered BTS site using Huawei’s Solar Powered Macro Base Station.
According to Huawei, the solar powered base stations will be deployed in remote areas with limited access to the electricity grid.
Warid Telecom chose to use Huawei’s Solar Powered BTS due to [...]
Frost & Sullivan has awarded Verizon the 2008 Green Excellence of the Year Award in the Corporate Leadership category for the telecoms services industry.
The award recognizes significant progress in enhancing long-term sustainability and managing the environmental impact of company operations that lead to a measurable improvement in the company’s overall environmental impact within its industry [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
Nokia has introduced automated kiosks across the central Klang Valley of Malaysia in order to get people to recycle their mobile phones.
According to a survey conducted by Nokia, only 3% of people recycle their mobile phones, as very few even think about or have an idea how to recycle phones they [...]
The CommsDay Melbourne Congress, co-organised by CommsDay and Green Telecom, and featuring a full day of speakers on sustainable telecoms practices, climate change opportunities and green infrastructure solutions, will be held on 30 Sept – 01 October at the Langham Hotel, Southbank. Sponsored by industry leaders, including Huawei Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, Hatteras Networks, Juniper Networks, BearingPoint, [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
Emerson Network Power, a provider of power solutions for telecom networks, has launched a series of products that it claimed can reduce energy consumption of mobile base stations by up to 60%. Its new platform uses a series of sequential strategies to shave off a significant bulk in energy consumption across the [...]
For the first time since Nortel launched its high-profile global marketing campaign earlier this year highlighting the so-called ‘Cisco Energy Tax,’ Cisco has officially responded with the company’s own energy efficiency story.
Following CommsDay’s lead story last Friday on the why Nortel’s campaign is good impetus for the industry to drive energy efficiency, Cisco Asia Pacific [...]
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 [...]