BT says it will take part in the Green Touch Consortium, the global initiative launched by Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs with the goal of developing a new generation of communications networks – in the next five years – that will reduce energy consumption by 1000 fold.
The announcement should come as no surprise. Ben Verwaayen, the CEO [...]
General Electric says it will be bringing its smart grid technologies to China by setting up a demonstration centre in the the City of Yangzhou in Jiangsu province.
To be located in the Yangzhou New Economy and Development Zone, the new centre will “verify how GE technologies deployed through the world can help China improve the [...]
Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs has started an initiative called the Green Touch Consortium that is proposing no less than a complete overhaul of communications networks, with the goal of achieving a 1000-fold improvement in the future energy consumption of the Internet and other networks supporting communications, commerce and entertainment.
“The goal is bold, but achievable. Bell Labs [...]
Alcatel-Lucent demonstrated an implementation of LTE inside a Toyota Prius at the annual CES (consume electronic show) in Las Vegas recently. The car is still a prototype, featuring a large display panel where the traditional car radio would be and provides a high speed Internet connection to access online content.
The LTE Connected Car showcase was [...]
Despite the general disappointment that was COP15, companies around the world are increasingly faced with the challenges to calculating and reporting their carbon emissions and managing their sustainability initiatives for a variety of reasons.
The task can be monumental in scale, especially for organisations that operate across different borders, facing different sets of regulatory requirements. Worst [...]
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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 [...]