China Mobile is reportedly planning to build a massive cloud computing facility in Inner Mongolia that will house some 40,000 servers for its data services.
The site, to be located in the city of Hohhot, is expected to cost 12 billion yuan, or US$1.9 billion. The operator has already signed a MoU with the regional government [...]
Emerson Network Power has been selected by Australia’s NBNCo to design, supply, install and commission 10 network facilities centres across Australia as part of the rollout of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN).
The deal is worth more than $100 million and includes Emerson’s portfolio of products, including high-efficiency power systems (Trinergy and ASCO); Liebert precision cooling [...]
Bharti Airtel’s Nigeria unit has contracted Ericsson to upgrade an initial batch of 250 diesel powered base stations with new ‘green’ sites from Sweden’s Flexenclosure.
The solution, based on Flexenclosure’s E-Site, will allow Airtel to harness solar and wind energy at the sites to minimise diesel consumption – and yes, CO2 emissions.
According to Flexenclosure, Airtel has [...]
Infinera is claiming some impressive efficiency gains with its newly announced DTN-X optical networking platform. The DTN-X continues Infinera’s photonic integrated circuit, or PIC, architecture, but instead of packing 10 x 10Gbps wavelengths into a single package, the new platform actually packs 5 x 100Gbps wavelengths into a single module that outputs a 500Gbps “super-channel.”
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AT&T says it will go with greener packaging for its branded accessories. The new packaging will be composed of up to 30 percent plant-based materials sourced from ethanol harvested from natural sugarcane.
The sugarcane used is this plant plastic is a rapidly renewable agricultural crop and replaces nearly a third of the fossil fuels traditionally [...]
An ITU meeting in Rome is calling for the establishment of international standards for GHG measurement by the end of this year.
The first ever ITU Green Standards Week, head in early September, held a particular emphasis on a globalised methodology for assessing the environmental impact of ICTs globally.
“ITU has been working with industry and government [...]
Communications Day, a subscription based newsletter for the telecoms industry in Australia, reports that energy efficiency will be a major focus of the country’s National Broadband Network initiative.
According to the report, NBN Co., the company rolling out the NBN, is working closely with its supplier of wireless technologies, Ericsson, on energy efficient sites, including a [...]
Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC, has signed up as a value-added reseller of On-Ramp Wireless’s Ultra-Link Processing wireless systems in North America and the UK.
As SAIC deploys Smart Grid as a Service (SGS) for utility customers, this agreement will enable the companies to offer complete system solutions to address all aspects of the Grid, [...]
AT&T is building a new submarine cable system by pulling up a couple of decommission cables and relaying the fibres.
The system, dubbed GOKI, will link up Guam, Okinawa and Kyushu in Japan and Incheon in Korea. The project will be deployed using a solution from Xtera Communications and Kokusai Cable Ship Co. (KCS) – a [...]
Data centres are notorious energy hogs that put them beyond the reach of most renewable energy sources. Today, the only way that a data centre can be powered by renewable energy is when it is built next to a hydro electric dam, or in a market where the utility power is from a renewable source [...]
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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 [...]