Smart grids
Vodafone had a more or less complete cell site outside their pavilion at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, demonstrating their Green Technology Programme. The installation featured a bank of solar panels connected to what appeared to be a full cell site complete with antenna and base station controller. The demo equipment itself was [...]
Digicel Pacific, who operate a cell phone network in Papua New Guinea, has put in solar panels for some of its cell towers, not so much to protect one of the purest natural environment on earth, but to drive better operational efficiency and cut the cost of powering its network. According to Eltek Valere, who [...]
British Telecom is arguably one of the most advance organizations in the world when it comes to its own sustainability initiatives. Ever since we founded Green Telecom, Live, we’ve heard on many occasions, BT’s progress on its drive to reduce its environmental impact and develop strategic towards sustainable practices. To sum those up in half [...]
Intel has contracted new solar electric installations targeted at eight locations in four US states with an estimated total generating capacity of 2.5 megawatts of clean solar energy. The new solar power installations will be located in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Oregon, the company said. “Intel is committed to renewable energy to reduce our [...]
Vodafone Qater and Alcatel-Lucent have deployed the first hybrid green mobile cell site in Qatar. As its name indicates, the cell site will leverage both solar and wind power generation systems using a solution that can tap into both energy sources, according to the companies. The wind turbine at the Qatar site has been mounted [...]
General Electric says it will be bringing its smart grid technologies to China by setting up a demonstration centre in the the City of Yangzhou in Jiangsu province. To be located in the Yangzhou New Economy and Development Zone, the new centre will “verify how GE technologies deployed through the world can help China improve [...]
Vodafone Germany and Alcatel-Lucent says they will work together to develop a smart metering offering for the German market. The new product will leverage Alcatel-Lucent’s Smart Metering Management System SMM8617 while Vodafone will provide the connectivity between consumer premise devices and the management system. According to the companies, the smart metering managed service will enable [...]
The GridWise Alliance and SmartGridIreland have signed a MOU to collaborate on the evolution of electricity grid. The two organisations will work together to collaborate on best practices for smart grids, including the development of international programs to share experience on smart grid projects. The aim of the MOU is to facilitate international work and [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks is seeking applications and partnerships with the energy sector, claiming a similarity with its core business in the telecoms industry. The company says that it will use its existing portfolio, combined with new partnerships to address opportunities in the energy sector. NSN adds that demand for renewable energy, intelligent power grids and [...]
GSMA’s recently announced Green Manifesto is a milestone in that it represents the first official pledge by the telecoms industry (albeit primarily mobile) to combat the effects of climate change. Not only does the document set a target for the mobile industry to curb its own emissions, but also offers a systematic (somewhat) analysis of [...]
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 [...]