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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 [...]
An interesting report by Prof Girish Kumar of the Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay on a consultation paper on green telecommunications by the Indian regulatory body, TRAI. His recommendation on green communications – reduce the maximum output power for base stations. According to Prof Kumar, by limited the transmitted power of base station sites [...]
The world’s largest ICT companies are reportedly joining global initiatives led by the World Resources Institute, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative and the Carbon Trust. What they are actually doing is unclear, but the following report by the Earth Times, note that the global groups will now work [...]
Interoperability Workshop Held at Agilent Facility Makes for Greener, Faster and Cheaper Smartphones and Tablets DURHAM, N.H.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, today announced that the lab, in collaboration with MIPI® Alliance is enabling the production [...]
via: How Indian telecom sector is going Green – The Times of India. It is irrefutable that energy is a dominant cost component for telecom companies. From an operator perspective, about two-thirds of the cost—the opex costs happens to be network costs. Of this two-thirds cost, energy remains one of the largest items, standing at [...]
via: Cloud Computing Could Save the Federal Government Billions of Dollars — SARASOTA, Fla., March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ –. Government and Industry experts to speak out at National Press Club, Tuesday, March 29 SARASOTA, Fla., March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Federal agencies are likely to experience major cuts in their budgets for the next several [...]
via: Can ICT deliver China’s carbon mitigation goals? | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk. The Chinese government has pledged to reduce carbon intensity by over 40% by 2020. Simon Zadek considers the role of ICT in achieving this target. A forum considering the role of ICT in enabling China’s low carbon transition took place in [...]
via: Gazettabyte – Home – ICT could reduce global carbon emissions by 15%. Keith Dickerson is chair of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) working party on information and communications technology (ICT) and climate change. In a Q&A with Gazettabyte, he discusses how ICT can help reduce emissions in other industries, where the power hot spots are [...]
via: Cloud Computing is Greener – Andrew Winston – Harvard Business Review. Cloud computing is all the rage. In its simplest terms, it means outsourcing your company’s information technology (IT) needs, from data and storage to software. All the servers and applications sit elsewhere in the Internet “cloud,” but more literally in a data center [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]