BT and Orange Business Services have became the latest operators to interconnect their TelePresence services. According to the operators, customers already with Cisco TelePresence systems on their network can now call similar organisations on the network of the other.
The deal basically unified BT’s Global Video Exchange services with Orange Business Services Telepresence Community. The operators [...]
France Telecom’s enterprise and international arm, Orange Business Services, has unveiled four strategic objectives for the next three to four years, three of which are based on technologies and services that have a green element.
As part of its “conquests 2015″ plan, Orange Business has identified cloud computing, M2M, as well as video conferencing, as “priority [...]
It is arguably the most important question for green telecoms practices. While it’s always good to get as much life out of existing resources as possible, there are just times when you simply need to upgrade to a new system, either for performance, cost, or efficiency reasons.
For Vedder Price, a Chicago-headquartered law firm, the decision [...]
Polycom has released what it calls a “comprehensive video solution” for small and medium businesses. The package, named Polycom RealPresence Ready, consists of two Polycom HDX 6000 room systems, one Polycom HDX 7000 system, and five Polycom Telepresence m100 software licenses.
According to Polycom, the new solution now “delivers high-quality, reliable and secure conversations with Polycom [...]
AT&T, BT, Orange Business Services, Swisscom and Telefonica, have been name as leaders in the Green Quadrant report from research firm, Verdantix.
The report compared ten sustainable telecoms solutions provided by 18 of the largest telecoms operators in the European market, such as video conferencing, online collaboration, and cloud computing.
According to Verdantix, five telcos – AT&T, [...]
Online video conferencing solutions developer, Nefsis, has announced what it calls a distributed cloud computing technology that intelligently virtualises online meeting rooms closer to participants. The advancement leverages the distributed nature of cloud computing and real time routing information to reduce roundtrip latency time for sessions and live data sharing over the Internet.
Infrastructure hardware solutions, [...]
Switzerland’s carrier, Swisscom, and its partner, myclimate, says that green ICT solutions will save the country some CHF 7 billion (US$7.75 billion) in cost as well as help reduce 750,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions. According to Swisscom, the CO2 savings will help make up the shortfall of the country’s Kyoto Protocol targets.
The projections are [...]
Video communications specialist Vidyo has announced support for Microsoft Lync server, enabling Lync users to quickly and easily initiate and participate in HD multi-party Vidyo conferences.
With Vidyo’s support for Microsoft Lync, users will now be able to access Vidyo’s personal telepresence by simply selecting it from within their Lync desktop application. Vidyo’s Microsoft [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Video conferencing specialists Vidyo has appointed Ashish Gupta as its chief marketing officer and SVP of Corporate Development.
“Ashish Gupta brings a wealth of industry experience to lead Vidyo’s marketing and corporate development efforts,” said Ofer Shapiro, co-founder and CEO of Vidyo. “He has successfully led product marketing, product management, channels and [...]
Nordic carrier, Elisa Corporation, has teamed up with New Jersey-based video communications specialist, Vidyo, to trial TV-quality, multi-party video conferencing for smartphones and tablets.
The pilot will hook mobile devices – initially the Samsung Galaxy phone and tablet, into Elisa’s existing service using Vidyo’s technology for desktop and room-based systems. Vidyo also has a solution supporting [...]
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 [...]