PRESS RELEASE
* Global Humanitarian Forum, Ericsson, WMO, and Zain and other mobile operators to deploy up to 5,000 automatic weather stations in mobile network sites across Africa, where less than 300 are reporting today
* Partnership will increase dissemination of weather information via mobile phones to users and communities, including remote farmers and fishermen
* First 19 [...]
BT Conferencing and TANDBERG have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a platform to deliver “the first global non-proprietary solution for inter-company telepresence and video conferencing.” Under the MOU, the BT One Source service, using TANDBERG’s standards-based infrastructure, allows an enterprise to collaborate internally and externally across differing video and telepresence systems.
According to [...]
Qwest Communications has teamed up with CURRENT Group to use its DSL infrastructure for smart grid applications. The solution will combined Qwest DSL network with CURRENT’s smart grid solution to allow utilities to quickly and modularly roll out intelligence across their power grid, but what the solution is NOT is a network for smart meters [...]
Live Green Webinar – Free Registration
Title: Wireless Network Efficiency
When: Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET
Description: Wireless companies invest approximately $25 billion per year in their networks. New strategies will be necessary to ensure this investment aligns with industry’s work to increase sustainability and reduce its carbon footprint while generating business opportunities and [...]
Recent tweets
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 [...]