Oregon-based fuel cell maker, IdaTech, says that 2011 might be the year that fuel cells enter the mainstream market. The company, which designs and manufacturers fuel cell systems for telecoms networks believes that the previously more expensive technology is approaching the point of competitiveness with current technologies.
IdaTech President and CEO Harol (Hal) Koyama, offers this [...]
By Pareekh Jain
Energy is one of the largest opex head for Telecom Operators. Telecom Operators are looking for energy opex savings strategies both for increasing profitability and going Green. Equipment Vendors are looking at opex saving strategies from piece meal perspective limited by breadth of their solutions portfolio. Below is a representative list of [...]
By CommsDay International
The GSMA and the International Finance Corporation – the commercial arm of the World Bank, has launched a new program designed to turn mobile base stations sites into power generators for the communities they serve.
The Community Power for Mobile program will aim to turn excess power generated by mobile network base stations into [...]
Swedish clean tech firm, Flexenclosure, claims that its off-grid base station infrastructure, E-site, can now save operators more than 90% in costs of operating and maintenance.
“E-site is Flexenclosure’s revolutionary and “green” off-grid base station site solution that is primarily run on renewable energy sources (sun and wind) with massive savings in diesel, operating expenses and [...]
EnergyAustralia is aiming to become the first power utility to build a network for its smart grid and smart metre network using LTE. The company has contracted Ericsson to build out the 4G network, which will initially use WiMAX, then migrate to LTE as early as next year with trials.
The network is being built to [...]
Flexenclosure, a Swedish firm that makes cell site towers and enclosures, is up to three AfricaCom Awards with its E-site solution, described as a “turnkey solution that is extremely power efficient and specially designed to generate and conserve energy from renewable energy sources like wind and solar.”
E-site has been nominated in the categories “Best Cost [...]
Suntrica, a UK-based maker of solar-powered chargers for mobile devices, has signed deals with two Chinese companies to bring its product to that market.
China Daheng Group, an import and distribution company, will act as Suntrica’s distributor through China selling direct to retail outlets while AKL Beijing, will provide sales and after sales support to end-users.
Nokia Siemens Networks says its Flexi-NS (Network Server) is the world’s lowest power consuming server for mobile operators, capable of supporting 100,000 subscribers on 59 watts of power.
The company unveiled the product at 4G World this week, and expects to ship it commercially by end-2010.
I had a very pleasant lunch with Shawn Covell, head of Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach initiative, which acts on behalf of the company to fund non-profit projects across the world to promote the use of wireless technologies in mostly underdeveloped markets.
Her job is mostly about philanthropy, bringing connectivity and access to the Internet to often underprivileged [...]
A core part of Green Telecom Live’s theme is to promote carbon accountability in the telecoms industry. As such, we have produced the first ever research report into the carbon performance and the strategies of the world’s top telcos, according to the Fortune Global 500 list of such companies in 2009.
The research was compiled through [...]
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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 [...]