PRESS RELEASE: BT announced today that it will continue to collaborate with the Tabitha Foundation to help the underprivileged people living in remote areas in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, by helping them to rebuild homes. This is the second year that BT has collaborated with the Tabitha Foundation and volunteers will travel to Cambodia in November [...]
PRESS RELEASE: DRAMMEN, NORWAY – Oct. 4, 2010 – Eltek Valere today announced the release of the new Smartpack2 distributed controller for telecommunications DC power systems with advanced features and improved interface to better control the power systems for next-generation wireless and wireline telecommunications networks.
The Smartpack2 controller offers system configuration, alarms and setup, rectifier/charge [...]
Flexenclosure, a Swedish firm that makes cell site towers and enclosures, is up to three AfricaCom Awards with its E-site solution, described as a “turnkey solution that is extremely power efficient and specially designed to generate and conserve energy from renewable energy sources like wind and solar.”
E-site has been nominated in the categories “Best Cost [...]
Suntrica, a UK-based maker of solar-powered chargers for mobile devices, has signed deals with two Chinese companies to bring its product to that market.
China Daheng Group, an import and distribution company, will act as Suntrica’s distributor through China selling direct to retail outlets while AKL Beijing, will provide sales and after sales support to end-users.
Nokia Siemens Networks says its Flexi-NS (Network Server) is the world’s lowest power consuming server for mobile operators, capable of supporting 100,000 subscribers on 59 watts of power.
The company unveiled the product at 4G World this week, and expects to ship it commercially by end-2010.
Pat Gelsinger, chief operating officer at storage giant EMC, is no stranger to the technology industry. Having served 30 years at Intel – the last post as head of Intel Labs, Gelsinger surely knows a thing or two about why customers buy technology and what vendors must do to continue to generate sales.
So it was [...]
GUEST POST by Arron Brown
Twenty years ago video conferencing was something seen on television shows and the James Bond type movies, something out of the science fiction future. Today, although not common the technology is readily and easily available. This article will explain some of the popular usages of video conferencing equipment.
I had a very pleasant lunch with Shawn Covell, head of Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach initiative, which acts on behalf of the company to fund non-profit projects across the world to promote the use of wireless technologies in mostly underdeveloped markets.
Her job is mostly about philanthropy, bringing connectivity and access to the Internet to often underprivileged [...]
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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 [...]