Cisco Systems plans to launch a consumer version of its HD teleconferencing solution next year. CEO John Chambers told reporters the company was confident it could crack the consumer market with “high definition capabilities for TelePresence into the home” by next winter despite a faltering global economy. But he may be optimistic.
The enterprise version of [...]
Cisco Systems announced a new flagship Carrier Ethernet-based Aggregation Router product that the company says is especially designed to support the massive amount of IP traffic expected in networks. Cisco unveiled the ASR 9000, which features a maximum switching capacity of 6.4 Tbps and per slot capacity of 400Gbps.
The new ASR9000 is designed for the [...]
Backed by strategic partner IBM, Juniper Networks has announced new ‘data centre infrastructure solutions’ designed to drive down complexity and total cost of ownership in the data centre. The range includes switching, routing and security technologies, all based on the JUNOS network operating system. Juniper says that the solutions can offer up to 52% Capex [...]
The Green IT Services market in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan) will grow from a small base of US$251 million in 2007 to US$2 billion in 2011, says the latest research from Springboard Research.
Australia represents the largest opportunity across the forecast period and is the key market in the Asia Pacific Green IT Services [...]
Cisco joined a Singapore initiative to develop IT services for public transport passengers and operators. Also on board the Singapore Land Transport Authority project are the Economic Development Board of Singapore, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, IBM, SingTech, and 3M.
Touted solutions include locating hotspots within buses, adding GPS and computerized readouts to vehicles and [...]
By Luke Coleman, CommsDay
After playing a pivotal role in Telstra’s ongoing transformation for the past three years, Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo announced John McInerney as the company’s Chief Information Officer and also as a Group Managing Director. McInerney will acquire responsibility for information systems from Telstra’s Transformation SVP Tom Lamming, who will continue to oversee
the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]