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 [...]
One of the biggest wholesale data centre facilities operators, Digital Realty Trust, has released a couple of videos – via its PR agency – on energy efficiency in the data centres.
The first is on the company’s view on PUE.
While there are no surprises in terms of the company’s definition of PUE, Adil Attlassy, vice president [...]
First published in Communications Day
A pilot program conducted at Microsoft’s Seattle campus has shown that intelligent building solutions using cloud-based software can be achieved with 10% of a building’s annual energy expenditure, offering a ROI period of 18 months.
The program was implemented in 13 of Microsoft’s 118 buildings on its campus, and carried out by [...]
Verne Global, the UK-based firm building a wholesale data centre facility in Iceland, says it is now officially open for business.
Services are available from the company’s 18-hectacre campus in Kelfavik, Iceland, a location with key operating advantages that providers well over 50% cost savings over traditional data centres in Europe or New York, the company [...]
Google announced this week it will set up a company with a partner and offer solar power to residential customers. As part of the plan, Google will set up a US$75 million fund with San Francisco firm, Clean Power Finance, which solar power integrators will be able to tap into to finance potential customer purchases.
Basically, [...]
Following Google’s decision to build three new data centres in Asia, I dug up this oldish interview with Sunny Lee, Executive Director for IT at Hong Kong’s biggest ICT spender, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, on why Hong Kong’s a suitable location for data centres, and of course, cloud computing.
The interview is from May, at [...]
The ITU’s Study Group 5 of its Telecommunications Standardisation Sector has found agreement on a globally-recognised set of methodologies to assess the environmental impact of ICT.
“Estimates of how much ICTs can reduce global emissions – and estimates of the emissions generated by the ICT sector itself – still vary widely, due to the application of [...]
Google announced that it will be building three new data centres in the Asia Pacific region. To be located in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, the three facilities will allow Google to locate its content and services closer to Asian users.
According to the words of a Google spokesperson in Hong Kong, the reasons for its [...]
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.”
Simply [...]
Future data centres will be built with two particular factors in mind that will ultimately determined their location and the kinds of applications they support, says executives at NTT Com Asia.
According to the Brandon Lee, chief strategy officer at NTT Com Asia, there will be two types of data centres in the future – one [...]
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 [...]