Green Telecom Live was given the opportunity of hosting a session at this year’s CommsDay Melbourne Congress, held on the 13th and 14th of October at the Langham Hotel, Melbourne. A total of six speakers from IBM, BT, Macquarie Hosting, Connection Research, Ericsson and Telstra, presented at the Green Telecom session of the event.
This year’s [...]
Summary of presentation by Bruce McCole, principal consultant, Ericsson Australia, at the Green Telecom Session of the CommsDay Melbourne Congress.
As the world’s population moves towards urban areas, their impact on the environment will escalate unless new infrastructure is developed and deployed to offset the trend, according to Ericsson’s McCole, whose presentation highlighted the need to [...]
Full transcript of the presentation by Dr Turlough F Guerin, group manager, Environment, Telstra, at the Green Telecom Session of the CommsDay Melbourne Congress.
Summary: Telstra has shown the possibility for its business to deliver emissions reductions across the economy. We are now using our own products and services to help our customers reduce their own [...]
Summary of presentation by Graeme Philipson, founder and chief research director at Connection Research, at the Green Telecom Session of the CommsDay Melbourne Congress.
Green ICT practices are now becoming a key business component for any organisation, according to the presentation by Connection Research’s Graeme Philipson.
First off, Philipson laid out Connection Research’s definition of Green IT: [...]
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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 [...]