Live Green Webinar – Free Registration
Title: Wireless Network Efficiency
When: Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET
Description: Wireless companies invest approximately $25 billion per year in their networks. New strategies will be necessary to ensure this investment aligns with industry’s work to increase sustainability and reduce its carbon footprint while generating business opportunities and [...]
Start up VNL, which developed the solar-powered WorldGSM base station for rural villages, will announced the official launch of the system at a press conference today at Singapore’s CommunicAsia trade show.
Rajiv Mehrotra, founder, CEO and chairman of VNL, told Green Telecom yesterday that the system will provide remote villages with GSM coverage through a model [...]
Rapid and dynamic scaling of resources is one of the main attractions for cloud computing, but networking technologies and telecoms business models haven’t really kept up. While you can subscribe to server and online storage resources over a network, the bandwidth that is needed to support the dynamic usage of resources are often still sold [...]
Power systems specialist, Eltek Valere, is expected to announce a solar-optimized version of its Flatpack 2 HE (high efficiency) Rectifier for telecoms networks this week.
According to Kenneth Bodahl, Eltek Valere’s managing director of Asia Pacific, the new Flatpack 2 HE Solar rectifier was specially developed for the operating conditions of sites that utilize some form [...]
Ericsson says that its network IP edge and metro platforms deliver the industry’s lowest energy consumption according to a set of Ericsson developed metrics, which provide a more accurate view of the actual energy used to service subscribers.
The new metrics, which go beyond how much power a platform or port consumes, are more in line [...]
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 [...]
Data centre energy consumption is growing massively across the world – that is fact. But network traffic and the energy they will be consuming will also escalate on an exponential scale, according to Cisco’s new Visual Networking Index.
According to Cisco, the amount of global IP traffic will increase five fold by 2013 to 56 exabytes [...]
Less than a month since Cisco Systems announced its entry into the smart grid space, it has signed its first smart grid customer – Duke Energy Group, a utility supplying electricity in several US states.
“Our goal is to rapidly transform the way electricity is delivered to, and used by, the 11 million people we serve [...]
Telenor Pakistan, a subsidiary of Norway’s Telenor, have sourced NSN to implement an energy efficient GSM network that will enable the operator to reduce energy consumption of new sites by 50%. The companies say over 80% of a mobile operator’s energy use happens in the network.
Under the new plan, NSN will build a network using [...]
The ZigBee Alliance, which promotes a set of low power wireless home networking technologies based on the IEEE 802.15.4 physical radio standard, is positioning its platform as an industry standard for smart meter applications.
The Alliance announced at the end of May that it’s Smart Energy public application profile has been endorsed by the European Smart [...]
Recent tweets
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 [...]