The high profile marketing campaign by Nortel on the energy consumption characteristics of its main rival, will help drive energy efficiency across the industry, says the chairman of a global hosting service provider.
Graham Weston, chairman of Rackspace Hosting, admits that Nortel’s claims are ‘plausible,’ but adds that Cisco probably won’t be lagging behind for long.
Nortel [...]
Companies looking to deploy a green strategy need to keep the project in perspective when seeking a solution for energy efficiency. While there are obvious energy efficiency benefits in deploying new technology, the promises made by vendors won’t always match business requirements, says a senior AT&T executive.
In many cases, the claims are hyped up and [...]
As one of the participants in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star for Data Centre study, AT&T is no stranger to the greening of IT. But when it comes to defining what is green, Rick Felts, AT&T’s senior vice president, Information Technology Operations, prefers to choose his words carefully. In this exclusive interview with [...]
Three more companies have joined the eco-patent commons initiative to compile a set of environmentally beneficial intellectual properties for public use. The three new members, Xerox, Dupont and Bosch, announced their contributions to the commons last week as part of their membership.
Xerox contributed a technology that reduces the time and cost of removing hazardous waste [...]
By Petroc Wilton, CommsDay
AT&T is gearing up for an imminent play in the regional video conferencing market, teaming with Cisco to deliver a managed offering. The service will be based on Cisco’s telepresence solution using B2B links via AT&T’s IP network and VPN capabilities. Currently on trial in Australia and elsewhere in the region, the [...]
Polycom became the latest video communications vendor to set up a high definition telepresence centre in Hong Kong, following similar facilities from Cisco and Tandberg.
Like its competitors, Polycom’s system consists of three high definition displays placed in front of a curved table, enabling the environment to simulate face-to-face meetings to take place over a network.
By Sonia Han, CommsDay
Tandberg says that virtual communications will boom in two years in Australia.
“A few trends we are experiencing here in Australia and New Zealand, which is not alike most of the world…we have mature migration from ISDN to IP, now 20% on ISDN and 80% on IP… desktop (appliance based) products are taking [...]
The session on climate change at the ITU Telecom Asia event in Bangkok this week raised the question, Going Green – Feeling Good or Good Business? For anyone covering this topic, the answer is pretty obvious. Of course it makes good business sense – or else no one will be doing it!!!
Having said that, the [...]
Climate change is clearly a key theme at this year’s ITU Telecom Asia 2008 show being held this week in Bangkok, Thailand. Here is what Dr Hamadoun I. Toure, secretary general of the ITU says about the UN organisation’s work on the subject in a prepared Q&A to the media.
Question: Climate change is a relatively [...]
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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 [...]