Alcatel-Lucent has launched what it calls a “high-capacity and eco-efficient” DSL platform, which now consumes 25% less power than conventional DSL solutions. According to the company, the ‘green DSL’ platform leverages increased energy efficiency of its latest generation DSL line cards, a unique distributed DSLAM concept, and something called Smart DSL technology.
“Today, standards exist that [...]
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Cisco’s TelePresence team is now running a user submitted video contest/campaign to promote the HD video conferencing platform. You can get more information here.
“This new contest [...]
Three global carriers and Cisco Systems has completed a successful trial of the latter’s TelePresence system across multi-carrier networks, paving the way for the day when HD video conferencing may be use like today’s PSTN.
The proof-of-concept trial by AT&T, BT and Tata Communications, was carried out at the Cisco Live 2009 event, and involved AT&T [...]
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 [...]