The Climate Group and a list of supporting companies and NGOs have sent an open letter to President Barrack Obama, calling for the White House to initiate a strategy to provide consumers and business with energy information.
The letter, submitted in association with Google, and with the support of AT&T, Intel, HP, Nokia, APC by Schneider [...]
The Japanese government’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced a massive US$1.1 billion smart grid trial in four cities and towns, according to Nikkei and other online reports.
The reports say that the city of Yokohama, Toyota in Aichi Prefecture, Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, and Kansai Science City – including parts of Kyoto, [...]
A massive initiative is reportedly underway by all of India’s cell tower companies to migrate their infrastructure to solar power, from existing diesel power solutions.
According to India’s iGovernment website, a total of 250,000 cell phone towers can be converted to the renewable energy solution, including 32,500 from GTL Infra – a subsidiary of Mumbai-based Global [...]
Equinix revealed the energy efficient measures at its new London facility, dubbed the LD5 IBX data centre. Located on the outskirts of London next to its existing LD4 facility, the new data centre will adapt a series of features to maximise its energy efficiency and reduce overall power consumption.
These include “fresh air cooling for all [...]
Broadband and mobile communications will play important roles in solving global challenges such as poverty, climate change, economic crisis, and help achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, says Hans Vertberg, CEO of Ericsson.
Co-hosting the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet conference in New York, Vestberg highlighted that telecom is unique because it can impact on [...]
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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 [...]