Tony Chan is a seasoned ICT journalist based in Hong Kong with a strong interest in bringing together industry leaders to foster sustainable IT and telecommunications practices, solutions and services.
Swedish clean tech firm, Flexenclosure, claims that its off-grid base station infrastructure, E-site, can now save operators more than 90% in costs of operating and maintenance. “E-site is Flexenclosure’s revolutionary and “green” off-grid base station site solution that is primarily run on renewable energy sources (sun and wind) with massive savings in diesel, operating expenses [...]
By Communications Day Huawei is eyeing a range of business prospects in the smartgrid market – and the firm’s smartgrid CTO Dr. Claudio Lima also sees a key role for telco carriers and OEMs in smartgrid deployments as they start to scale up. According to Dr. Lima, Huawei is eyeing opportunities both in the core [...]
EnergyAustralia is aiming to become the first power utility to build a network for its smart grid and smart metre network using LTE. The company has contracted Ericsson to build out the 4G network, which will initially use WiMAX, then migrate to LTE as early as next year with trials. The network is being built [...]
Facebook this week launched a green page, which has “lots of information about what the company is doing in the environment/energy space.” The site is features lots of information on being ‘green’, as well as outlines Facebook’s green vision, as follows: Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world [...]
I’ve reported on this before, but it is definitely worth a second post. This group, called Global Green Grid, is proposing a pan-Asian subsea infrastructure that will stretch from Northern China to Southern Australia. This infrastructure, to consist of a High Voltage Direct current power line and a natural gas pipeline, will be a conduit [...]
IEEE, the world’s leading professional association for developing and defining technologies, has launched an official Working Group for what it calls the P2030.2 standard, which will deliver guidelines for discrete and hybrid energy storage systems that integrate with the electricity grid. According to the IEEE, the emergence of energy storage technologies and applications needs an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]