Green ICTEver since data centre energy efficiency made headlines for the amount of power they consumed, and the amount of carbon emissions they generated, major content providers like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and many others have stepped up their efforts to be more transparent when it comes to the environmental profile of their data centre infrastructure. [...]
Originally published on Communications Day The industry’s focus on data centres as the main producers of carbon dioxide emissions in the ICT sector misses the point, according to a new white paper by the Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications at the University of Melbourne. According to ‘The Power of Wireless Cloud’ report, access networks and [...]
E.ON Elnät Sverige AB (E.ON), part of one of the largest private energy companies in the world, has chosen Ericsson in a five-year deal to provide a hosted solution including consulting and systems integration services. Ericsson’s solution will gather data from energy meters and provide collected data to E.ON’s internal IT environment. Data will be [...]
In support of the “World Environment Day” (WED) and to follow up on the Paris Call to Action on “Smart Sustainable Cities”, ITU and Telefónica have announced a Green ICT Application Challenge to uncover innovative ICT approaches and applications towards addressing global environmental issues in cities and urban areas. The submission period [...]
Cisco has launched a new marketing campaign and corporate slogan that says 99% of the world is still not online. The new campaign is based on the concept of the Internet of Everything, where not just people, but things will be connected to the global network, allowing for a new generation of services. “It’s easy [...]
Swedish power systems specialist for telecom infrastructure Flexenclosure has opened its four office this year, this time in Islamabad, Pakistan. According to the company, it has seen good traction in Africa and Asia for its eSite mobile site power management solution as well as its eCentre modular data centre solution. The new office in Islamabad, [...]
By Navin Vohra, vice president, Wireless Sales, Asia Pacific and India, CommScope As mobile operators seek new ways to meet the ever-increasing need for bandwidth today and in the future, they face many challenges – evolving technology and new applications. The continued data growth of connected devices is predicted to reach US$50 billion by 2020. [...]
By Communications Day, Energy efficiency initiatives undertaken by Telstra has resulted in annual savings of approximately $3 million, but the risks from climate change is likely to increase in the future, according to the operator’s 2012 response to the Carbon Disclosure Project. In its response to the CDP for the year ending July 2011, Telstra [...]
One way to reduce energy consumption in the enterprise is to minimise the use of desktop PCs. And one way to do that is to deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that work on the cloud rather than storing and running applications and data from the cloud. That’s the kind of solutions that Huawei has brought [...]
AT&T is offering its customers mobile phone chargers made with housing that consists of at least 30% post-consumer plastics, reports Environmental Leader. The chargers, available for wall sockets and cars, is rated Energy Star 5, and meets California’s Energy Commission 2013 efficiency standards, which specify reduced “vampire draw” when the charger is plugged in but [...]
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 [...]