The GSMA’s Green Manifesto doesn’t just pledge reductions by the mobile industry, but also illustrates the role that mobile technologies and services can impact the carbon footprint of other industries.
According to the Manifesto, numbers extrapolated from two earlier reports, “Carbon Connections” from Vodafone and Accenture, and the Climate Group’s “SMART2020″, the mobile industry can enable [...]
The GSMA’s Green Manifesto not only lays out a target for the mobile industry to reduce its per subscriber CO2 emissions by 40% by 2020, compared to 2009, but it also summarises current initiatives and the progress that has been made so far, with some interesting results.
According to the document, network equipment vendors, operators and [...]
The GSMA held its annual Asian show in Hong Kong last week. For the first time, ‘green’ was one of the central themes at the event, with the main press conference by the GSMA itself focused on commitments by the mobile industry to reduce its carbon emissions.
The big news was the announcement of GSMA’s Green [...]
CA, formerly Computer Associates, has officially launched its CA ecoSoftware suite aimed at helping corporations better manage the implementation, progress and outcomes of global sustainability initiatives.
As reported earlier on Green Telecom Live, CA ecoSoftware is also being deployed by UK supermarket chain, Tesco, to reduce its carbon footprint.
The two new CA ecoSoftware products include CA [...]
HP already had a sensor system for determining data centre cooling performance, but starting January 2010, the company will also provide you with a host of software tools that give you a graphical view of your data centre’s environment. The HP Data Center Environmental Edge product now leverages wireless sensor technology to provide graphical visualisation [...]
If the world’s mobile network operators upgrade their infrastructure with more energy efficient equipment, then they can reduce the industry’s emissions by 42% by 2013, says the results of a new study by Pike Research.
“The incentives for mobile operators to deploy greener networks are strong,” says managing director Clint Wheelock. “These upgrades include the integration [...]
A new report by global management consultancy, Arthur D. Little has found that telecoms operators in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have largely ignored the potential benefits of adopting environmentally sustainability practices in their products and operations strategies.
The new report, entitled Telecoms Operators in a Carbon Constrained World, contacted 34 operators in [...]
US mobile operator, Sprint is giving the packaging that house accessories for its phone models a green makeover. According to the operator, all accessories sold at Sprint retail stores and online will be packaged in an environmentally-friendly holder beginning this month (November).
The new packaging will be fully recyclable, and is 20% to 40% smaller than [...]
You know a product or service is hitting the sweet spot when companies who previously provided competing services are embracing it as one of their own. That seems to be what is happening with Telepresence. While hotels were one of the first industries to set up Telepresence for their clients, that move was quite understandable [...]
There are plenty of things that the telecoms industry can do to limit its energy consumption – hence the related impact on the environment, but until this week there has so far been no systematic approach to energy for the telecoms network that covers all the different scenarios.
Sure, each new generation of hardware will be [...]
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 [...]