As the world’s biggest manufacturing of computer microprocessors, you can say that Intel is at the heart of the information revolution. Throughout the years, the company has managed to reduce the energy consumption of its chips in the market place, but can its own efforts to reduce emissions compete with the global demand of its [...]
In this exclusive interview with Ericsson’s Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Elaine Weidman, Green Telecom’s editor Tony Chan finds out about the company’s approach to, not only managing its own environmental impact, but support the success of its customers towards a new carbon lean economy.
Green Telecom: So tell us about Ericsson’s CSR initiatives?
Elaine Weidman: Basically, [...]
Cisco Systems new Data Centre 3.0 strategy not only comes with a new series of data centre switches that push switching capacity inside the data centre to the terabit level, but also key “pillars” that address both energy and operational efficiency.
In this feature interview, Green Telecom talks to Cisco vice president and general manager of [...]
Green Telecom interview with Anne Larilahti, Head of Environmentally Sustainable Business, Nokia Siemens Networks
Green Telecom: What is Nokia Siemens Networks doing on the environmental front?
Anne Larilahti: We have focus on reducing the energy consumption across the mobile networks. That has been very much a focus. We have different software features and technologies helping us there. [...]
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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 [...]