The International Telecommunications Union concluded its first ever Global Standards Symposium this week with the determination to call for more ‘aggressive action’ to streamline standardisation work and end duplication of efforts within the sector.
The event, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, was attended by government Ministers, diplomats, senior executives from the private sector and lead offices [...]
By Patrick Neighly, CommsDay
Google blamed the crumbling economy for postponing a $600 million data centre in Oklahoma. The facility was originally slated for completion next year but Google said financial concerns compelled it to curb its data centre rollout plans. The facility will now open its doors in 2010.
A company spokesperson told reporters Google “invested [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
Japanese telco KDDI has launched a Singapore data centre—its first in Asia outside of China and Japan. The facility, made operational Wednesday, will be able to “provide the advanced information services that client companies want, while cultivating foreign customers, in addition to Japanese firms”, the firm said.
KDDI said that its new Singapore [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
In the midst of the current global economic turmoil, tele-conferencing has become a more practical medium to do business in a bid to cut international travel costs, according to research conducted last month by IDC Asia-Pacific.
An analyst at IDC, Kenneth Liew said, “The slowdown will actually affect the financial institutions, which are [...]
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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 [...]