Telecoms tipped to take 10 percent of global energy

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: TechnologyIn separate announcements Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson have unveiled technologies that, respectively expedite fault finding and repair of FTTH networks like the NBN, and that could significantly reduce their energy consumption.

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: StrategyAlcatel-Lucent is facilitating the incorporation of revenue generating applications into telecommunications networks and other infrastructure with the launch of an open source software engine designed to enable companies to more effectively manage the APIs to their cloud platforms, telecommunications networks and enterprise infrastructure.

Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: EnergyEnergy company, Energy Australia, is claiming potential savings of $253 million a year on their energy bills for residential energy customers in the eastern states following the launch of new software which uses a combination of leading technology and behavioural science to drive “large-scale savings”.

Written by: David Heath | Published in: EnergyWave energy has long been seen as a viable solution for Australia's energy needs. This latest CSIRO study gives credence to that view and offers some advice on how to achieve it.

Data centers around the globe are likely to consume 19% more energy next year than in 2011, according to a report from DatacenterDynamics.

Atlanta-based Urjanet announced today that it has closed a $4 million Series B round of funding, two years after its initial launch.

How much energy does transfering (let's say) a gigabyte on the same continent consume, over the internet ?

I am asking because everything (media, data, processing) is moving on the cloud and I don't know how well does these transfers affect the environment in comparison with local storage/processing.

Any opinions are welcomed

Featured | Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: EnergyUnited States wave energy technology company, Ocean Power Technologies, and Lockheed Martin have entered into a teaming agreement to develop a 19 megawatt wave-energy project in Victoria backed by partial funding of $65.5 million from the federal government’s Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.

Australia's three mobile carriers, through the Mobile Carriers Forum, have launched an online training programme for industry employees in bid to reduce the carbon footprint and electricity costs of mobile networks, which typically account for 93 percent of operators' energy consumption.