NTT America announced that its Ashburn Data Centre, located in Northern Virginia, has earned the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification from the US Green Building Council.
LEED, developed by the USGBC as a benchmark for the design, construction and operation of green buildings, awards points for satisfying specific green criteria to address [...]
The ITU and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have joined up to conduct a seminar on the use of radio spectrum for meteorology, aimed at weather, water and climate monitoring and prediction.
“Radio-based ICT applications such as remote sensors are currently the main source of observation and information about the Earth’s atmosphere and surface,” the organisations [...]
AT&T Wireless was ranked the greenest wireless carrier in the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless claimed the second and third spots in the company’s new scorecard of North American “green” mobile network operators.
“The Green Carrier Matrix ranks operators on their environmentally friendly, clean technology initiatives primarily focused around [...]
IBM, the City of Shenyang, and China’s Northeastern University are embarking on a “smart city” collaboration effort to improve environmental and living conditions in the city – an industry hub for heavy industries and manufacturing that is suffering from growing environmental pressures.
“We believe our collaboration with IBM and Northeastern University will play a critical role [...]
A new industry alliance made up of an initial group of 19 companies has been formed to work on standards for connecting smart meters and home appliances.
The U-SNAP (Utility Smart Network Access Port) Alliance aims to create a low cost connector standard to enable consumer products to communicate with any vendor’s smart meter. According to [...]
India’s cellular operators are now offering a host of incentives to get their customers to adopt e-billing instead of receiving pages and pages of paper bills in the mail, according to this report by indianexpress.com.
“Phone bills normally run into four to five pages and the number increases if the customer asks for an itemised bill. [...]
Ericsson CFO and incoming CEO Hans Vestberg has used the Broadband World Forum in Paris this week as a platform to call for more focus on ICTs as a way to combat climate change. Speaking at the BWF, Verberg said: “For too long the need for CO2 reductions has been seen as a trade off [...]
ZTE has reportedly supplied Uganda Telecom with a solar-powered handset that the operator has dubbed, Kasana. According to media reports, the handset will work for up to 12 hours after an hour under the sun.
“Uganda Telecom is committed to developing products that are relevant to the communication needs of Ugandans and today we bring you [...]
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 [...]