Less than a week after Cisco released its Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) to the industry, TANDBERG, who is being acquired by Cisco, showed off interoperability between its telepresence systems and those of Cisco.
The successful demonstration was conducted between TANDBERG Telepresence and the Cisco CTS 3000. According to TANDBERG, Cisco TelePresence solutions will be added to [...]
Cisco Systems has released what it calls the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) that will allow inter-company telepresence sessions. The company has released the protocol into the ‘public domain’ and is offering it on a royalty-free licensing basis to all industry participants.
According to Cisco, LifeSize, TANDBERG (currently being brought by Cisco), and RADVISION have already signed [...]
WALLINGFORD, CT–(Marketwire – January 25, 2010) – VBrick today unveiled an integrated suite of H.264-specific products to power the full spectrum of creation, delivery and consumption of live or on-demand IP video streaming for enterprise customers, making H.264 video content available both inside and outside the firewall to upwards of 100,000 viewers simultaneously.
The H.264 product [...]
Intel has contracted new solar electric installations targeted at eight locations in four US states with an estimated total generating capacity of 2.5 megawatts of clean solar energy. The new solar power installations will be located in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon, the company said.
“Intel is committed to renewable energy to reduce our own [...]
BT Conferencing, a long standing backer of Cisco’s Telepresence platform, has launched a fully managed automated service for TANDBERG solutions called, BT One Source for TANDBERG.
According to BT Conferencing, One Source now combines TANDBERG’s telepresence and video conferencing solutions with its management services. The solution delivers planning, design and implementation services such as BT’s One [...]
Juniper Networks and Polycom has announced an alliance focused on improving the reliability, cost-effectiveness and quality of the customers experience for telepresence (with a small ‘t’) and video conferencing services.
The two companies don’t say it in so many words, but obviously have some synergies in such a tie up, since both count Cisco as the [...]
Vodafone Qater and Alcatel-Lucent have deployed the first hybrid green mobile cell site in Qatar. As its name indicates, the cell site will leverage both solar and wind power generation systems using a solution that can tap into both energy sources, according to the companies.
The wind turbine at the Qatar site has been mounted at [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks says that its new Flexi Multiradio base stations will now allow Singapore mobile operator, M1, to potentially reduce its carbon emissions by 35%.
M1 is introducing the new gear into its network as part of a network modernisation program, that includes a LTE trial in February.
“The extensive use of Nokia Siemens Network’s proven [...]
A new release by Gartner predicts that 20% of companies around the world will have no IT assets by 2012, preferring instead to shift ownership and operation of their information infrastructure to third-party cloud and service providers.
“Several interrelated trends are driving the movement toward decreased IT hardware assets, such as virtualization, cloud-enabled services, and employees [...]
IT heavyweights Microsoft and HP is getting together in a US$250 cloud computing pact that will work on better integration of their respective technology platforms. The joint investment will see the companies develop and sell systems for the cloud computing space.
Both companies have been active in the cloud space, but each was approaching the market [...]
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 [...]