Summary of presentation by Bruce McCole, principal consultant, Ericsson Australia, at the Green Telecom Session of the CommsDay Melbourne Congress.
As the world’s population moves towards urban areas, their impact on the environment will escalate unless new infrastructure is developed and deployed to offset the trend, according to Ericsson’s McCole, whose presentation highlighted the need to [...]
Optical chipmaker Infineon has announced what it claims is the market’s most energy efficient integrated circuit for Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer (PHY) solutions. According to Infineon, the XWAY PHY11G is the first IC on the market to implement the Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) guidelines, which are based on the upcoming IEEE 802.3az standard. It [...]
Ericsson is reportedly preparing to spend US$1.5 billion over the next five years in Korea to establish what it calls a “4G-based green eco-system.”
In a collaboration initiated in Stockholm, Sweden between Korean president, Lee Myung-bak and Ericsson’s newly appointed CEO, Hans Vestberg, Ericsson will work with Korean companies to develop solutions to use mobile broadband [...]
Alcatel-Lucent has launched what it calls a “high-capacity and eco-efficient” DSL platform, which now consumes 25% less power than conventional DSL solutions. According to the company, the ‘green DSL’ platform leverages increased energy efficiency of its latest generation DSL line cards, a unique distributed DSLAM concept, and something called Smart DSL technology.
“Today, standards exist that [...]
Several top handset makers including Nokia have agreed to develop a universal charger for the European market.
Ten suppliers inked a memorandum of understanding to use Micro USB connectors for their phone chargers rather than continue forward with the countless proprietary formats that have bedeviled consumers.
The agreement was prompted by a European Commission threat to legislate [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay International
Green network equipment will take on 46% of the US$277 billion global telecom infrastructure market by 2013, according to a new report from Pike Research.
“Energy consumption is one of the leading drivers of operating expenses for both fixed and mobile telecom network operators. Reliable access to electricity is limited in many [...]
Taiwan’s Acer Computers this week said it will be launching a couple of computers, likely netbooks, by the end of this year that will use Google’s Android operating system. While such as device has been widely anticipated in the market since the introduction of the OS on phones, the announcement does signify a breakthrough of [...]
Ericsson recently announced that it has won a deal to build, operate and manage a fibre optic network for the city of Hudiksvall in Sweden. The deal will see Ericsson take over the development and management of an operator-neutral city network for Zitius, an open-access network operator in the Swedish network.
Outsourcing the management of the [...]
By CommsDay International
In a document that outlines a Digital Japan Creation Project, dubbed the ICT Hatoyama Plan, Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications revealed plans to build a massive cloud computing infrastructure to support all of the government’s IT systems.
Called tentatively the Kasumigaseki Cloud, the new infrastructure will be built in stages from now [...]
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) says it has developed three standards for measuring the energy efficiency of telecommunication equipment.
Published as the Telecommunications Energy Efficiency Ratio, or TEER, the standards are designed to determine ‘network-element efficiency,’ through a ‘comprehensive methodology’ that measures and reports energy consumption, and uniformly quantifies a network component’s ratio of [...]
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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 [...]