Equinix says its SV2 International Business Exchange data center has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification from the US Green Building Council (USGBC).
LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system. It provides third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across [...]
Despite the ongoing rhetoric by the ICT industry to reduce its carbon footprint and adopt more environmentally friendly technologies, the main driver behind the roll out of renewable energy cell sites by mobile operators is still very much about power and cost.
While there’s much discussion by industry initiatives such as the Green Power for Mobile [...]
Tata Communications aims to add another 25 public Telepresence rooms this year. The new rooms will bring the total number of public Telepresence rooms operated by Tata to 38 by year end.
As part of its global partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Tata recently launched two new Telepresence rooms at the W Chicago City Center [...]
Tomorrow’s Value Rating, a new tool that rates companies on how well they manage their most pressing social and environmental issues, has ranked Vodafone at the top of all ICT companies with a score of 60%.
“The Tomorrow’s Value Rating of the world’s largest information and communications technology (ICT) companies shows that sustainability leaders such as [...]
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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 [...]