Green Telecom Live had a chance to catch up with power systems specialist PowerOasis at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company, which supplies power systems for base stations to mobile operators – among other infrastructure operators – offered us a very interesting look at how power is generated in a hybrid wind [...]
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo revealed at Mobile World Congress that it has started a project to put environmental sensors on their base stations to gather climate and air quality information. Each of the nodes will feature an sensor that gathers information such as air quality, the intensity of UV light from the sun, atmospheric conditions and [...]
Samsung’s booth at this year’s Mobile World Congress features a wall display of their green initiatives, ranging from green handsets to their corporate carbon reduction commitments.
According to the information on display, Samsung Electronics aims to reduce its Greenhouse Gas emissions by 50% by 2013 against its 2008 figure. The slide showed also charted the company’s [...]
Vodafone had a more or less complete cell site outside their pavilion at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, demonstrating their Green Technology Programme. The installation featured a bank of solar panels connected to what appeared to be a full cell site complete with antenna and base station controller.
The demo equipment itself was from [...]
Digicel Pacific, who operate a cell phone network in Papua New Guinea, has put in solar panels for some of its cell towers, not so much to protect one of the purest natural environment on earth, but to drive better operational efficiency and cut the cost of powering its network.
According to Eltek Valere, who provided [...]
British Telecom is arguably one of the most advance organizations in the world when it comes to its own sustainability initiatives. Ever since we founded Green Telecom, Live, we’ve heard on many occasions, BT’s progress on its drive to reduce its environmental impact and develop strategic towards sustainable practices.
To sum those up in half a [...]
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 [...]