PRESS RELEASE: As part of the Millennium Villages project, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and pan-African operator Zain have built a green-powered site in a remote village in northeastern Kenya. With the reliable and affordable mobile communication the site provides, the villagers of Dertu can make calls, access health services and education and improve their economic future. [...]
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Just days after Google revealed its PowerMeter initiative to connect household appliances to the network grid, Cisco has taken a fascinating new global marketing tack, launching what it terms a holistic blueprint for Intelligent Urbanization, designed to help cities around the world use the network as the next utility for integrated city management, better [...]
One of the first things that anyone needs to do in order to conserve energy is to actually find out how much energy they are using in the first place. The idiom, you can’t improve what you don’t measure rings true across the all types of infrastructure, including data centres, telecoms networks and, for Google, [...]
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 [...]