Cisco Systems plans to launch a consumer version of its HD teleconferencing solution next year. CEO John Chambers told reporters the company was confident it could crack the consumer market with “high definition capabilities for TelePresence into the home” by next winter despite a faltering global economy. But he may be optimistic.
The enterprise version of […]

Cisco Systems announced a new flagship Carrier Ethernet-based Aggregation Router product that the company says is especially designed to support the massive amount of IP traffic expected in networks. Cisco unveiled the ASR 9000, which features a maximum switching capacity of 6.4 Tbps and per slot capacity of 400Gbps.
The new ASR9000 is designed for the […]

Juniper Networks and Ixia, a provider of IP performance testing services, have set up a new Energy Consumption Rating (ECR) Initiative designed to test the energy efficiency of telecoms equipment and networks.
The effort, set up in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, consists of a set of standard tests on a range of equipment categories, […]

By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
In the midst of the current global economic turmoil, tele-conferencing has become a more practical medium to do business in a bid to cut international travel costs, according to research conducted last month by IDC Asia-Pacific.
An analyst at IDC, Kenneth Liew said, “The slowdown will actually affect the financial institutions, which are […]

Nortel’s director of enterprise technology, Tony Rybczynski, writes in his blog that the sum emissions from the world’s install base of Cisco equipment is equivalent to over a trillion kilometres of travel in a small car.
“Across some 500 million Cisco enterprise ports globally, Cisco is adding an additional 11.5 MILLION metric tons of […]

Two prevailing themes at last week’s CommsDay Melbourne Congress’ Green Telecom day were the issue of the impact of the Garnaut report on the telecommunications industry and the role of telecoms in helping other industries reduce their carbon footprint.
While the two themes seem diametrically opposed, as the first addresses the potential impact of a carbon […]

The keynote speaker for the CommsDay Melbourne Congress’ Green Telecom Day, Chloe Munro, Telstra’s executive director for innovation projects for the digital future, blasted the Garnaut report’s neglect of telecoms’ role in fighting climate change. Access her keynote presentation as well as slide decks from prominent speakers at our inaugural event in Melbourne here

The CommsDay Melbourne Congress, co-organised by CommsDay and Green Telecom, and featuring a full day of speakers on sustainable telecoms practices, climate change opportunities and green infrastructure solutions, will be held on 30 Sept - 01 October at the Langham Hotel, Southbank. Sponsored by industry leaders, including Huawei Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, Hatteras Networks, Juniper Networks, BearingPoint, […]

The Australian government’s proposed carbon ‘cap and trade’ system has the potential to radically change the telecoms industry by driving up demand, according to Brett O’Riley, CEO of Perth-based Ochre Services.
As a company that operates in a region where the dominant economic drivers are carbon-intensive heavy industries such as oil and gas and natural resources, […]

NTT Communications announced that it will deploy Juniper Network’s T1600 core routers over some 20% of its network to scale up capacity as well as reduce energy consumption. Key considerations for the selection included the non-disruptive upgrade path from the T640 to the multi-terabit capacity and energy efficiency advantages of the T1600.
“To support rapid increase […]