The Broadband Commission for Digital Development has released a report on the potential of broadband to counter climate change challenges. The report, Broadband Bridge: Linking ICT with Climate Action, is the result of work conducted by the Broadband Commission Working Group on Climate Change, chaired by Hans Vestberg, president and CEO of Ericsson and comprising [...]
The GSMA and Bharti Infratel Limited have entered into a MoU to develop and promote green technologies for telecom tower infrastructure in India. The collaboration will involve working together to convert 1,000 Infratel towers into green sites. The initiative is projected to reduce GHG emissions by almost 11,000 tonnes by reducing diesel consumption, the organisations [...]
Google says it plans to deploy a thermal storage cooling system for its new 15-hectare data centre site in Changhua County, Taiwan, Data Centre Knowledge reported. Google has long since been a leader in energy efficiency for its data centres, but this is the first time the company has decided on thermal storage. The system [...]
The chairman of Acer Computers, J.T.Wang, urged the Taiwanese governmetn to build more IT infrastructure instead of building new roads, according to a report in AsiaOne. Wang made the comment specifically in reference to the need for the territory to prepare itself for the advent of cloud computing. Instead of spending “billions of New Taiwan [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]