The proliferation of video and other forms of rich media is changing the nature of networks today, a trend that calls for a new generation of equipment and technologies at the network level, says Cisco.
The company announced at its C-Scape annual analysts briefing event yesterday, what it calls its medianet strategy, which will provide the […]

The emergence of cloud and grid computing across the globe is giving birth to a new business, one that registered and connects massive networks of computing resources with organizations that require those resources.
In an article published by International Science Grid This Week, author Danielle Venton at EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-Science), an European Commission co-funded […]

Putting servers inside shipping containers is a trend that is gaining momentum in the industry with many of the leading infrastructure operators and providers, including Google, IBM, HP and Sun now leveraging the concept to drive efficiency and flexibility of data centres.
Now, Microsoft, which has already deployed a date centre in Chicago using the idea, […]

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 […]

IT infrastructure and services company Digital Sense has opened the first part of a new data centre in Brisbane, Australia which, it says, will eventually make up the largest and highest density data complex across the world.
Digital Sense claims that the Kenmore facility will be able to support the load of ten typical data […]

Cisco Systems announced a new flagship Carrier Ethernet-based Aggregation Router product that the company says is especially designed to support the massive amount of IP traffic expected in networks. Cisco unveiled the ASR 9000, which features a maximum switching capacity of 6.4 Tbps and per slot capacity of 400Gbps.
The new ASR9000 is designed for the […]

Backed by strategic partner IBM, Juniper Networks has announced new ‘data centre infrastructure solutions’ designed to drive down complexity and total cost of ownership in the data centre. The range includes switching, routing and security technologies, all based on the JUNOS network operating system. Juniper says that the solutions can offer up to 52% Capex […]

The Green IT Services market in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan) will grow from a small base of US$251 million in 2007 to US$2 billion in 2011, says the latest research from Springboard Research.
Australia represents the largest opportunity across the forecast period and is the key market in the Asia Pacific Green IT Services […]

Juniper Networks and Ixia, a provider of IP performance testing services, have set up a new Energy Consumption Rating (ECR) Initiative designed to test the energy efficiency of telecoms equipment and networks.
The effort, set up in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, consists of a set of standard tests on a range of equipment categories, […]

The International Telecommunications Union concluded its first ever Global Standards Symposium this week with the determination to call for more ‘aggressive action’ to streamline standardisation work and end duplication of efforts within the sector.
The event, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, was attended by government Ministers, diplomats, senior executives from the private sector and lead offices […]