Two of Italy’s mobile operators have agreed to share up to 2,000 sites for their mobile infrastructure to drive down cost and drive up efficiencies.
Under the scope of the “co-siting” deal, Telecom Italia and 3 Italia will share the so-called “passive” infrastructure of their networks, including the poles, cables, electricity supply and conditioning systems and [...]
This is a story about smart grids and not necessarily about telecoms, but I had to put this in because of the cool design of these building-oriented turbines from Helix Wind. Looking like something on top of an Antonio Gaudi building, Helix Wind’s vertical turbines features long helical blade scoops that catches wind from all [...]
Smart meter vendor, Itron, and utility communications specialist, Ambient Corporations, have signed a MoU to jointly market a suite of smart grid solutions for utility customers. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will closely integrate Itron’s smart metering application, OpenWay, with Ambient Smart Grid communications technology to connect legacy equipment as well [...]
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 [...]