One thing that comes with new technology is that it typically gives you more bang for the buck, hence more performance for the same cost – energy as well as money.
With Cisco’s CRS-3 (Carrier Routing System), you now get three times the performance – as in throughput, so up to 322 Tbps of capacity in [...]
The European Commission have given recognition to Alcatel-Lucent’s “Alternative Energy Program for Global Green Telecommunications” with an award in the 2010 European Communication’s Sustainable Energy Europe (SEE) campaign.
The telecoms equipment vendor was picked the winner in the campaign’s “market transformation – voluntary commitments’ category. The Sustainable Energy Europe (SEE) campaign is an initiative of the [...]
Hitachi has reportedly won a contract to supply services to the Japanese government’s move to deploy cloud computing for its internal departments and agencies. As we reported last year, the Japanese government has announced a major strategy, dubbed the “Kasumigaseki cloud,” to migrate its internal ICT operations to a cloud computing platform.
Subsequently, governments in the [...]
US smart meter maker, Itron, and smart grid solutions maker, SmartSynch, has entered into a partnership to allow utilities deploying smart grids to extend coverage beyond their own proprietary wireless networks.
“This will allow utilities to leverage networks like general packet radio service (GPRS) for transmission of all critical metering and event data from their meters’ [...]
Polycom announced an expanded global agreement where Polycom’s complete portfolio of voice and video conferencing technologies, including joint go-to-market activity and future technology development, will be sold by HP.
Under the expanded agreement, Polycom video and voice solutions for unified communications and stand-alone operation will be sold and delivered through HP as part of the company’s [...]
Cisco Systems has announced a strategic investment in US-based, Grid Net, the developer of a WiMAX-based smart meter platform for utility companies. With Cisco’s backing, Grid Net now has the support of Clearwire, Motorola, Intel and General Electric. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in Sydney, Australia, Grid Net is backed by world class [...]
Reliance Communications has teamed up with Polycom to bring wireless, high resolution video conferencing to India for a starting pricing of less than US$5,000.
The new service will bundle the Polycom QDX 6000 system with a VPN connection from Reliance Netconnect Broadband + wireless broadband data card. The service will cost an initial Rs 2 lakh [...]
GE Energy Storage Technologies, a unit of GE Transportations, is launching the Durathon battery backup system for the telecoms industry at CTIA Wireless exhibition in Las Vegas this week.
The Durathon, the company says, features a proprietary sodium halide chemistry that allows it to last up to 10 times longer than traditional telecom backup storage systems [...]
Australia’s Finance Minister, Lindsay Tanner, has reportedly laid out a target to cut roughly 13% of the carbon emissions from its data centre operations over the next five years.
According to this report by ITwire,Tanner told a conference at CeBIT that the Australian government is the largest data centre operator in the country – larger than [...]
AT&T and Superior Communications have launched a new phone charger that promises to eliminate the phantom, or vampire, energy draw, from millions of chargers left plugged in. The AT&T ZERO charger works by automatically sensing when a mobile phone is not plugged up to the charger and cutting the power supply from the wall socket.
According [...]
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 [...]