Ericsson has released a new strategic paper that ties an operator’s network’s CO2 to the total cost of ownership in order to drive efficiencies.
According to Ericsson, telecom operators are increasingly recognising the need to reduce their environmental impact while pursuing business growth. The new approach by Ericsson, dubbed TCO2, now helps operators make better informed [...]
By Geoff Long, via Communications Day
Victoria has boosted its claims to becoming the country’s ICT research hub with the opening of a A$10 million centre focussing on energy efficient networks.
The Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications will be a joint initiative between Melbourne University and Bell Labs, while the Victorian Government has also provided funds believed to [...]
I attended my first Carbon Disclosure Forum this week. The event, organised by ASRiA, or Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, in Hong Kong as part of a series of such events in Asia, dealt principally with different aspects of carbon reporting, including the perceived and unperceived risks of carbon legislation and climate [...]
T-Mobile UK and 3 UK are in the process of completing a massive joint infrastructure program that will see the elimination of more than 3,000 cell sites from the network. The project will also consolidate more than 12,500 sites on the previous networks of the two operators.
The resulting shared network requires fewer masts, consumes less [...]
Hutchison Telecom’s Indonesian unit, PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications, is deploying PEM (polymer electrolyte membrane, also called proton exchange membrane) fuel cells as backup power systems for its network throughout the Indonesian Island of Sumatra.
The PEM fuel cell products are being supplied by IdaTech, a Bend, Oregon-based company specialising in the design, development and manufacturing [...]
Telecoms power specialist, Lineage Power, has entered a merger agreement to purchase all the outstanding shares of PECO II.
“Together, the combined product portfolios and nationwide support infrastructure creates one of the largest and most capable professional services organizations for telecom power in North America,” Lineage Power, a Gores Group company, said. “PECO II’s high standards [...]
Following Verizon’s announcement of its green initiatives in 2010, the operator and its vendor, Motorola, have issued an official press release of one of those initiatives – a trial of energy efficient set top boxes for its FiOS TV service.
The new set top boxes are up to 30% more energy efficient than current models, with [...]
Verizon is stepping up its sustainability efforts with new and upgraded initiatives to reduce its environmental impact. The new initiatives and expansions include significantly increasing the number of alternative vehicles in the company’s fleet to conducting a trial of energy efficient FiOS TV set-top boxes to using more green products and services.
“Customer demand for Verizon’s [...]
Any doubt that consumers are not looking to buy green dishwashers can be thrown out the window, but the question of whether they will pay more for them is another story.
According to various reports, when Texas offered to subsidise the trade up for ‘green’ appliances as part of the US government’s stimulus legislation, also known [...]
Chevron has launched one of the world’s largest trials of solar panel technologies, dubbed Project Brightfield, in a bid to identify the most efficiency method of transforming the sun’s energy into electricity. Chevron is now installing 7,700 solar panels from 7 vendors on 18 acres of land in California – a former Chevron refinery – [...]
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 [...]