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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Vodafone and IBM is together in the smart home business, demonstrating in Berlin last week a solution that allows for remote management of household appliances. The smart home showcase features IBM’s SmartCloud Service Delivery Platform, and Vodafone’s Global M2M Platform. According to the companies, M2M will enable appliances to feed data back to service providers [...]
First published in Communications Day GSMA updated its 2009 Green Manifesto this week, outlining potential savings of up to US$2 billion per year for the world’s mobile network operators if energy efficient networking technologies are adopted. Using data from the GSMA’s Mobile Energy Effiicency Benchmarking service to calculate both the energy costs and related CO2e [...]
Facebook’s new Prineville Data Centre in Oregon now has a PUE of 1.08, as compared to the EPA standard of 1.5 PUE for state-of-the-art data centres, the company said. According to a manager of the facility, Ken Patchett, the site is now 72% more efficient than typical data centres out there, which gives Facebook more [...]
There are arguably many ways to get to 100% green power for a data centre. You can put it where all the power generated is green, such as in Iceland. Or you can buy RECs, renewable energy certificates, to offset all the electricity you get from the traditional grid. But Apple has embarked on an [...]
Check out this video on how Google processes emails on the Gmail service and how they minimise the company’s impact on the environment through energy efficiency and renewable power.
Eltek, the leader in high efficiency power systems, announced a new 48V rectifier for its Flatpack S DC power systems to meet demand in the telecom industry for a high-efficiency power system that can fit into small spaces. The 48V Flatpack S is designed for applications like wireless base station, broadband, fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC), fiber-to-the building [...]
Orange Business Services has teamed up with international testing, inspection and certification company, Cotecna, to offer secure machine-to-machine track and trace solutions. Cotecna is the foremost supplier of transit monitoring services with its Cotrack® solution, helping governments to fight fraud and secure the transport of sensitive merchandise such as petroleum products, according to the companies. [...]
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 [...]