PRESS RELEASE: New “community of communities” to continue the advance of 21st Century cities, towns and regions around the world
(New York City, June 29, 2010) – The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a New York-based think tank dedicated to studying the use of information and communications technologies to build the 21st Century community, announced today the [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Energy Management is Critical Component of ReVISION House Vegas
Boston, MA and Las Vegas, NV – (June 29, 2010) Powerhouse Dynamics, a home energy management company, verified today that the ReVISION House in Las Vegas, NV is a net-zero energy home. Powerhouse’s eMonitor has been tracking the home’s circuit and appliance-level energy usage, as [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Customer Demand for Energy Efficiency Driving Need for Interoperability Testing
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), the networking industry’s premier independent third-party proving ground for developing technologies, today announced that the UNH-IOL is the first third-party testing facility that has the capability of testing Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE), or [...]
by David Stanton, VP, Enterprise Sales at Cable&Wireless Worldwide
As organisations are realising the efficiency and productivity benefits of remote working practices and adapting to increasingly dynamic working environments, the demand for flexible, responsive, secure networks is on the rise. In fact, remote working is now a key part of any converged networking solution.
But a [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks says it is the first vendor to publish the energy use data for its wireless network equipment, the Flexi EDGE Base Station, using a new standard called, Energy Efficiency of Wireless Access Networks, established by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute.)
ETSI’s new technical specification now established a standard methodology for analysing the energy [...]
Etix DataCenter, a new facility outside Paris, now promises to deliver the lowest PUE (power usage effectiveness) rating in France by introducing a number of green design and technologies. According to the company, the new facility will be designed to deliver a PUE rating of no more than 1.5, which means that at least two [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks has entered into a partnership with Helsingin Energia, the public utility for the City of Helsinki, and power and automation technology group, ABB, to jointly develop, test and install a smart grid in the new Kalasatama district of the city.
From the onset, the project will focus on adding flexibility into the electric [...]
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 [...]