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.
By Sonia Han, Communications Day ICT services company Dimension Data has launched ‘Office Sustainability Services’, a suite of four service modules which it claims are designed to provide an integrated ICT approach to developing and executing greenhouse gas emission reduction initiatives. The four modules making up the services are accounting and reporting, stakeholder engagement, opportunity [...]
By CommsDay Just 3% of subscribers recycle their handsets, according to a new survey by Nokia. Three out of four respondents admitted they don’t consider recycling when upgrading to a new phone and nearly half said they didn’t even know recycling was an option. Activists have grown increasingly concerned about the fate of discarded handsets [...]
By Petroc Wilton, Communications Day Internode is searching for ways to reduce the carbon footprint of the new $3 million data centre it plans to install in Adelaide. After being awarded ‘CO2-neutral’ status in a recent carbon audit, the firm is now looking at other green initiatives in Australia and abroad for examples of environmentally [...]
By CommsDay Wireless network operating expenditure will top $22 billion within five years thanks to rising power costs. But advances in green computing and mobile base station efficiency will begin mitigating against those increases a year earlier, according to a new prediction by ABI Research. The firm believes dynamic network dimensioning, better hardware integration and [...]
By Sonia Han, Communications Day Telstra has introduced a ‘green’ installation at its Melbourne office, using it to tout the “vital” importance of the proposed National Broadband Network in reducing carbon emissions and increasing productivity. Last week, Telstra installed a 5 kilowatt hydrogen (H) fuel cell test facility at its Melbourne head office, which it [...]
By Sonia Han, CommsDay A new survey has found that only 22% of Australian businesses have practices in place to measure carbon emissions, 36% have no practices in place but are interested in evaluating them, and 33% have no plans to measure carbon emissions. According to the annual survey of Sun Microsystems’ ANZ customers, out [...]
Former Big Blue and now Big Green, IBM, is set to unveil a new consultancy service aimed at helping its customers go green. The offering is not simply about reducing companies’ impact on the environment, but also include a whole set of metrics, from carbon management to labour practices that will increase competitive positioning, the [...]
Video communications solutions provider, Tandberg, has been contracted for 2,300 video conferencing systems inside New South Wales schools. The two year project will bring video communications capability to all schools, and extend the classroom out to offsite locations such as scientific research centres and even to NASA in the US. According to Lars Ronning, Tandberg [...]
While the rest of the industry is moving full steamed towards data centre consolidation to reduce overheads and improve efficiency, IBM has introduced three new platforms that allow enterprise and existing data centre operators to improve their existing infrastructure without a massive migration to bigger facilities. The three new offerings, Enterprise Modular Data Centre, Portable [...]
Vodafone Group has publicly committed to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2020 from a 2006/2007 baseline of 1.23 million tonnes. The company has already reduced the amount of carbon emissions relative to network traffic by 29% and improved the energy efficiency of new network equipment by 25% in the 2006/2007 period. Read the [...]
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 [...]