Summary of presentation by Bruce McCole, principal consultant, Ericsson Australia, at the Green Telecom Session of the CommsDay Melbourne Congress.
As the world’s population moves towards urban areas, their impact on the environment will escalate unless new infrastructure is developed and deployed to offset the trend, according to Ericsson’s McCole, whose presentation highlighted the need to [...]
Major UK retailer has selected CA’s ecoSoftware solution to manage its worldwide carbon footprint and to meet its long-term emission reduction goals.
“Businesses today are doing more than just talking about energy, carbon and sustainability. From investigating ways to reduce energy costs and mitigating climate change risks facing the organization, to seizing emerging opportunities, organizations are [...]
Nokia Siemens Network chief executive officer Rajeev Suri has called for new connectivity and sustainability targets to drive cooperation between the ICT industry, governments and the ITU.
In a panel discussion at ITU Telecom World 2009 in Geneva, Suri outlined the challenge to bring useful, affordable and sustainable connectivity to the world. Useful connectivity includes not [...]
Google has partnered with Energy Inc. – the makers of the TED 5000 energy monitor for homes, to link consumer energy consumption data to its online PowerMeter software.
According to the official Google blog, anyone in North America can now purchase and install the TED (for The Energy Detective) 5000 and see personal home energy data [...]
A new industry alliance made up of an initial group of 19 companies has been formed to work on standards for connecting smart meters and home appliances.
The U-SNAP (Utility Smart Network Access Port) Alliance aims to create a low cost connector standard to enable consumer products to communicate with any vendor’s smart meter. According to [...]
India’s cellular operators are now offering a host of incentives to get their customers to adopt e-billing instead of receiving pages and pages of paper bills in the mail, according to this report by indianexpress.com.
“Phone bills normally run into four to five pages and the number increases if the customer asks for an itemised bill. [...]
Cisco and energy management solution providers, Landis + Gyr has signed a deal to work together on a ‘holistic’ approach to smart grid communications infrastructure. According to the companies, the aim is to help utility companies and their customers better manage energy and to accelerate the delivery of standards-based solutions for the energy industry, as [...]
Conferencing solutions provider, TANDBERG, has quantified the benefits it has reaped by using its own solutions and by encouraging its 1,500 employees to telework.
According to TANDBERG, its global employees in the last year have on average made 75,000 video calls each month, replacing unnecessary business travel with “in-person” video calls, effectively saving the company over [...]
The Government of Nepal’s High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT) has tapped IBM to help with the development of “policy, frameworks, research and solutions to support Nepal’s vision of being a smart country.”
As part of a long-term cooperation and collaboration, IBM will create an innovation policy to help the Government of Nepal achieve its [...]
Polycom has added a partial managed services support option for its immersive telepresence solutions, giving its customers the option to support deployments with in-house resources or through partial or complete outsourced services.
According to the Polycom, the company service partners can now offer a new Assisted Operations Service (AOS) in addition to existing fully managed Video [...]
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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 [...]