By Petroc Wilton, CommsDay
New research has warned that increasing demands for broadband capacity will lead to surging energy requirements, threatening to choke internet speeds. The internet power consumption model developed by the University of Melbourne also suggested that the situation can be averted – but only if industry and governments begin to act now.
Presented at […]

By Petroc Wilton, CommsDay
With the carbon pollution reductions scheme likely to drive power costs upwards for at least five years after its introduction in 2010, inefficient legacy data centres are ripe for consolidation and optimisation, according to Barry Williams of management and technology consultants Bearing Point. But Williams, practice lead for Bearing Point’s Technology Infrastructure […]

A new alliance between Google and GE is looking to advance the US electricity grid in order to support emerging renewable energy deployments. The companies announced at Google’s Zeitgeist conference that they will work together to develop both technology and policy initiatives to facilitate additional capacity and capabilities on the electricity grid.
The companies said the […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve written about advances in clean energy regeneration, but it is always an area of interest and I follow it on my spared time or whenever I can, simply because it is so much like the telecoms industry circa 1997.
What caught my eye this week and prompted to do […]

By Sonia Han, Communications Day
A new report from 3 Mobile has claimed that small businesses are boosting mobile usage to drive down fuel expenses.
The study ‘Petrol, Business Mobility and Communications’ surveyed 1278 businesses nationwide. 93% of respondents believe that rising petrol costs are impacting their organization and approximately 40% of them said this had an […]

Israeli carrier Ethernet specialist, Telco Systems, has tapped an experimental solar energy system to power its laboratory following an intense search for solutions to lower rising costs.
Telco Systems CEO, Zvi Marom, says the new miniature concentrating photovoltaic (MCPV) solar system developed by a new Israeli start up, Distributed Solar Power (DiSP), fits perfectly to the […]

The world’s biggest semiconductor maker will spin off solar technology it has developed to a new start up called SpectraWatt Inc. Intel will also lead the first round of funding for SpectraWatt worth US$50 million. Other investors include Cogentrix Energy – a Goldman Sachs subsidiary, PCG Clean Energy and Technology Fund, and Germany’s Solon AG.
Intel’s […]

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 other solutions […]

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 of the […]

US carrier Verizon has published its own set of energy efficiency guidelines for equipment purchases after 1 January 2009. Equipment purchases after that date is expected to be at least 20% more efficient than today’s products, the company said.
The guidelines will include optical and video transport systems, switches and routers, DSLAM high speed Internet equipment […]