Just after we profiled a company that is building a wholesale data centre offering in Iceland, we learned that browser developer, Opera Software, has also hit upon the same idea – at least about moving its data centre operations to the island nation.
According to Norway-based Opera, it is now moving a large portion of its [...]
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 [...]
Ericsson has released a new strategic paper that ties an operator’s network’s CO2 to the total cost of ownership in order to drive efficiencies.
According to Ericsson, telecom operators are increasingly recognising the need to reduce their environmental impact while pursuing business growth. The new approach by Ericsson, dubbed TCO2, now helps operators make better informed [...]
I attended my first Carbon Disclosure Forum this week. The event, organised by ASRiA, or Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, in Hong Kong as part of a series of such events in Asia, dealt principally with different aspects of carbon reporting, including the perceived and unperceived risks of carbon legislation and climate [...]
Following Verizon’s announcement of its green initiatives in 2010, the operator and its vendor, Motorola, have issued an official press release of one of those initiatives – a trial of energy efficient set top boxes for its FiOS TV service.
The new set top boxes are up to 30% more energy efficient than current models, with [...]
Verizon is stepping up its sustainability efforts with new and upgraded initiatives to reduce its environmental impact. The new initiatives and expansions include significantly increasing the number of alternative vehicles in the company’s fleet to conducting a trial of energy efficient FiOS TV set-top boxes to using more green products and services.
“Customer demand for Verizon’s [...]
Any doubt that consumers are not looking to buy green dishwashers can be thrown out the window, but the question of whether they will pay more for them is another story.
According to various reports, when Texas offered to subsidise the trade up for ‘green’ appliances as part of the US government’s stimulus legislation, also known [...]
The Climate Group and a list of supporting companies and NGOs have sent an open letter to President Barrack Obama, calling for the White House to initiate a strategy to provide consumers and business with energy information.
The letter, submitted in association with Google, and with the support of AT&T, Intel, HP, Nokia, APC by Schneider [...]
Broadband and mobile communications will play important roles in solving global challenges such as poverty, climate change, economic crisis, and help achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, says Hans Vertberg, CEO of Ericsson.
Co-hosting the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet conference in New York, Vestberg highlighted that telecom is unique because it can impact on [...]
The European Commission have given recognition to Alcatel-Lucent’s “Alternative Energy Program for Global Green Telecommunications” with an award in the 2010 European Communication’s Sustainable Energy Europe (SEE) campaign.
The telecoms equipment vendor was picked the winner in the campaign’s “market transformation – voluntary commitments’ category. The Sustainable Energy Europe (SEE) campaign is an initiative of the [...]
Recent tweets
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 [...]