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1 |
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Telecommunications and environmental issues in Afghanistan |
| Author: |
Zakaria Hassan |
| Title: |
Chairman |
| Organisation: |
Afghanistan Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ATRA) |
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185KB |
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Zakaria Hassan is the Chairman of Afghanistan Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, ATRA. Prior to joining ATRA as a member of the Regulatory Board, Mr Hassan was the Head of the Telecommunications Department at Siemens-Afghanistan. Mr Hassan was the National Director of the Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC), a Technical Advisor to the Minister of Communications in Afghanistan and a University Lecturer. Mr Hassan is a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, MIEE, and Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) (Engineering Council, London, United Kingdom).
Zakaria Hassan obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Brighton Polytechnic (UK) and his Master’s Degree (M.Sc.) in Telecommunications Technology from Aston University, England. |
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| Article abstract: |
| Afghanistan emerged from a civil war in 2002. After the war, telephone penetration was less than 0.05 per cent - it is now 46 per cent, Internet service was not available and there was no electricity in even the largest cities. When telecommunications development took off, diesel generators powered everything, today Afghanistan’s Telecommunications Regulatory Agency is pursuing a green agenda, requiring the use of solar and wind energy where economically feasible and fostering the adoption of an environmental protection code for telecom. |
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Article no.: |
2 |
| Topic: |
Green is in - harvesting the intelligent network |
| Author: |
Raghav Sahgal |
| Title: |
Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan |
| Organisation: |
Oracle Communications |
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189KB |
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| About author: |
Raghav Sahgal the Vice President of Oracle Communications in Asia Pacific and Japan. A 20-year veteran in the communications and computing industries, Mr Sahgal was previously with Comverse Technologies as the Chief Business Officer of its Converged Billing Group. He also held Asia Pacific roles at Lucent Technologies, Kenan Systems and Sequent Computer Systems.
Raghav Sahgal received a Master of Science degree in Computer Systems Management from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Tulane University in US. He also attended Harvard Business School and completed the Executive General Managers program. |
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| The ICT sector uses vast, rapidly growing, amounts of energy and contributes significantly to carbon emissions and global warming. Legislation, costs, competitive and ethical pressures are all driving communications service providers to adopt Environment Impact Reduction (EIR) programmes and cut their CO2 emissions. New, more efficient equipment, better network planning and management and specialised network intelligence software are all important elements in the fight to reduce emissions that contribute to global warming. Fortunately, many green solutions reduce energy usage and costs. |
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Article no.: |
3 |
| Topic: |
Smart grid - the evolution of energy management and conservation |
| Author: |
Sharat Sinha |
| Title: |
Managing Director - Service Provider Business, |
| Organisation: |
Cisco Systems |
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190KB |
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Sharat Sinha is the Managing Director of Cisco’s Service Provider Business in Asia. Since joining Cisco he has held positions in sales management, marketing, and product and technology management. Mr Sinha started his career in Project Management and Operations in the area of Satellite Communication and Internet Services with VSNL, an international telecommunications product management.
Sharat.Sinha has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and a Masters in Industrial Management from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). He also studied executive education at Harvard Business School and Stanford Universi |
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| Today’s electrical distribution system has changed little in 100 years - and is just as inefficient. The system, a major fossil fuel consumer and emitter of greenhouse gases, is not well suited to distributed, renewable solar and wind energy sources and does not have sufficient capacity to meet future demand. Environmentally friendly, ‘smart grids’ that depends heavily on clean, renewable, energy sources can not only supply energy, but interactively control and reduce the energy used by devices connected to it. |
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Article no.: |
4 |
| Topic: |
IP telephony and peering networks - making the smart grid work |
| Author: |
Charles Studt |
| Title: |
Vice President, Product Management |
| Organisation: |
IntelePeer |
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181KB |
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| About author: |
Charles Studt is the Vice President of Product Management for IntelePeer; he has more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications product management, marketing and engineering leadership roles. Prior to IntelePeer, Mr Studt served as director of product management and marketing at TeleGea, overseeing the creation of the industry’s first service delivery platform for hosted VoIP services.
Previously, he served as an industry consultant at KPMG (BearingPoint) and American Management Systems (CGI) and led billing modernization programs at such global Tier 1 carriers as BellSouth, Verizon, Swisscom, KPN and TeliaSonera. He is a frequent industry speaker and commentator on trends such as Voice 2.0 and next-generation communications services.
Charles Studt holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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| Article abstract: |
| With the Smart Grid, with smart meters tracking and reporting usage in real-time, power used during peak periods will cost more and during slow periods less. This will reduce strain on the grid, lower carbon emissions and reduce energy consumption. However, unless utilities can tell consumers what to do, and when, they cannot respond effectively to reduce their expenses and help the power company. Utilities can outsource the systems needed to inform consumers using the expertise of telecom service providers. |
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Article no.: |
5 |
| Topic: |
Service provider collaboration |
| Author: |
Diarmid Massey |
| Title: |
Vice President - Carrier Services, Global Markets |
| Organisation: |
Cable & Wireless Worldwide |
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185KB |
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| Diarmid Massey is the Vice President of Carrier Services - Global Markets at Cable & Wireless. Mr Massey has been working in the international telecommunications industry with both service provider and equipment vendor organizations for almost 25 years, and has more than 14 years work experience in the Asia Pacific region. Mr Massey has held regional management positions with Atlas Telecom, ITXC Corp, NexTone and Vanco, and worked with BT, New Zealand Telecom and New Zealand Post. Prior to joining Cable&Wireless, Diarmid Massey was Asia CEO for Vanco, a Global Virtual Network Operator providing solutions to global MNCs. |
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| The rapidly growing complexity of leading edge telecommunications and the growing demands of users for increasingly sophisticated and available services are stretching the resources of even the biggest telecom service providers. In response, managed services are back in favour with service providers to assist customers that seek to focus on their areas of core competence but want dedicated, end-to-end services. Symbiotic partnerships, with service providers collaborating worldwide, are helping create a global, integrated ecosystem that enables customers to meet their business goals. |
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Article no.: |
6 |
| Topic: |
Saving the world from global warming with mCommerce? |
| Author: |
Justin Ho |
| Title: |
CEO |
| Organisation: |
Utiba Mobility |
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188KB |
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| About author: |
Justin Ho is the Co - CEO of Singapore based Utiba Pte Ltd, a pioneer in the field of mobile based transaction systems. Mr Ho has more than two decades of experience in the technology and finance sectors. Before founding Utiba, Mr Ho worked with NCR and Compaq Computers in a variety of various senior positions in the security and electronic commerce sectors. Mr Ho also founded Emerge Asia wand was its Managing Director.
Justin Ho has an Engineering degree from the University of Melbourne.
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| Article abstract: |
| The growth of mobile telephony in the developing world is largely due to pre-paid airtime. Pre-paid service originally required printed ‘scratch’ cards that cost users a minimum of US $5 and, throughout the world, required 15 million barrels of oil per year to distribute. The online transfer of credits to a user’s handset - eliminated the card’s high production and distribution costs, make top-ups of as little as 20 cents possible and can save vast amounts of fuel and carbon emissions. |
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Article no.: |
7 |
| Topic: |
Network efficiency builds profits and reduces environmental impact |
| Author: |
Oliver Tavakoli |
| Title: |
VP of Architecture for SLT Business Group |
| Organisation: |
Juniper Networks |
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206KB |
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| About author: |
Oliver Tavakoli is VP of Architecture for Juniper's SLT Business Group. Prior to joining Juniper Networks via acquisition, Mr Tavakoli
was CTO at Funk Software. Mr Tavakoli joined Funk Software through its acquisition of Trilogy, Inc., a company that Mr Tavakoli
co-founded. Earlier in his career, he developed systems and networking software at IBM and Novell.
Oliver Tavakoli earned his Master of Science in Mathematics degree from the University of Tennessee in the USA. |
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| Article abstract: |
| Today, corporations need to be socially and environmentally conscious, but reputation is not the only reason for network service providers to pursue efficiency. Operational efficiency results in real economical and environmental savings. These savings can be used to increase network investment to address new opportunities, to respond to competition and to improve the company’s bottom line. Since the potential savings are a significant percentage of cost of doing business, there is a strong business incentive to secure them and benefit. |
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Article no.: |
8 |
| Topic: |
Dialling a better future |
| Author: |
Jing Wang |
| Title: |
Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific & Middle East and Africa |
| Organisation: |
Qualcomm |
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185KB |
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Jing Wang is Executive Vice President of Qualcomm Asia Pacific & Middle East and Africa; he is also a member of the company’s executive and investment committees. Jing Wang serves as a director on the boards of both Qualcomm Wireless Communication Technologies (China) Ltd., and Qualcomm Wireless Semi-Conductor Technologies Ltd., two wholly foreign owned enterprises established in China. Jing Wang is also the vice chairman of the board of directors of Tianyi BREW Technologies Ltd., a joint venture between China Telecom and Qualcomm. Prior to his current role, Jing Wang was instrumental in driving the growth of CDMA in Greater China and Southeast Asia; he joined Qualcomm as a senior vice president. In 2005, major media in mainland China and Hong Kong named Jing Wang as one of the ‘Ten Most Valuable CEOs’ in China. In 2007, the same group of major media honoured him with their award for‘Sustained Value’.
He received his bachelor's degree from Anhui University, an LL.M from the People's University of China, Department of Law, and an LL.M from the University of Virginia School of Law. |
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| Sixty per cent of the world’s people have mobile phones; one phone uses little power, but billions need a lot. New chipsets and lower power displays reduce drain on batteries and improve battery lifespan since fewer recharge cycles are necessary. Very thin solar panels, designed for mobile handsets, and solar panels for cellular base stations provide environmentally sound power sources. New technologies and smarter antennas reduce wasted transmission energy and higher data rates mean base stations can serve more callers. |
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Article no.: |
9 |
| Topic: |
Technology for a low carbon future |
| Author: |
Chong Win Lee |
| Title: |
Business Development Leader |
| Organisation: |
Nortel Asia |
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182KB |
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| About author: |
Lee Chong Win is the Leader of Business Development & Strategy at Nortel Enterprise Solutions for Asia/Middle East/Africa; he has over 15 years of professional experience in IT and telecoms engineering, consulting, professional services and sales. Prior to his current role,
Mr Chong Win held management positions in Nortel, EMC Corporation and Periphonics Corporation.
Lee Chong Win holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems. |
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| ICT consumes enormous amounts of energy. The sector accounts for some two per cent of the world’s CO2 emissions - about the same amount as the aviation industry. In the USA alone, data centre energy usage is likely to double by 2011. Changes in network architecture, more efficient equipment, virtualisation - the pooling of resources with other users, the use of ‘cloud computing’ and the adoption of industry-wide efficiency standards can help the sector take the lead in emission reduction. |
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Article no.: |
10 |
| Topic: |
Green IT for a greener world |
| Author: |
Eric Hoh |
| Title: |
Vice President, Asia South Region |
| Organisation: |
Symantec |
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184KB |
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| About author: |
Eric Hoh is Vice President of the Asia South Region at Symantec, responsible for Symantec’s Security and Availability lines. Mr Hoh joined Symantec through the company’s merger with VERITAS Software. At VERITAS Mr Hoh was responsible for the Asia South sales organisation. In recognition of his achievements, Mr Hoh was awarded VERITAS’ Against All Odds Award in 1999 and Quantum Leap Award in 2001.
Eric Hoh graduated with an honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Winona, Minnesota.
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| Article abstract: |
| Carbon emission by the world’s data centres is greater than that of many countries. Underutilized servers and storage devices, waste up to half of this energy. Consolidating or decommissioning underused devices and applications reduces costs, energy consumption and carbon emissions. Efficient storage management, consolidation of user devices and servers, and optimization of data centres brings significant savings. Instead of buying more storage or servers, efficient management of existing resources reduces power consumption and brings significant productivity and cost savings. |
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Article no.: |
11 |
| Topic: |
‘Dual Greening’ for today’s networks |
| Author: |
Manish Gupta |
| Title: |
Vice President of Global Networks |
| Organisation: |
Kabira Technologies |
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219KB |
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Manish Gupta is the Vice President of Global Networks at Kabira Technologies; he is responsible for all of Kabira’s marketing functions worldwide, including product management, product marketing, marketing strategy, public relations, and marketing communications. During the past nineteen years, Mr Gupta has established marketing and business development programmes at Aperto Networks, Apple, Jetstream Communications, Megisto Systems and National Semiconductor. In addition to his executive operational roles, Mr Gupta has been a member of the Board of Directors at Aperto Networks and the WiMAX Forum. Mr Gupta is a globally active voice in a variety of communications sector issues including 3G, WiMAX, DSL, VoIP, webcasting, interactive appliances, and satellite communications.
Manish Gupta received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. from Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Santa Clara University in California. |
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| Companies are increasingly recognising their social obligation to reduce their environmental impact. Environmental responsibility, once considered a burden, frequently prove to have a variety of unforeseen benefits - often measurable on the bottom line. Meeting social obligations often requires improving operational efficiency, developing new processes and products and results in the discovery of ways to cut costs - especially those for energy. The drive to be green is also creating unsuspected new markets and services. |
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Article no.: |
12 |
| Topic: |
Mobile service, costs and a green agenda |
| Author: |
Lance Hiley |
| Title: |
Vice President, Marketing |
| Organisation: |
Cambridge Broadband Networks |
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193KB |
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Lance Hiley is the Vice President of Marketing at Cambridge Broadband Networks; he is responsible for all marketing, market and channel development and the corporate brand. Before joining Cambridge Broadband Networks, Mr Hiley worked for Anite Telecoms as Marketing Director. Mr Hiley has worked for other wireless companies including Lucent Technologies Microelectronics and Parthus plc, defining products and managing alliances and acquisitions in Asia, Europe and North America.
Lance Hiley studied Electrical Engineering at CEGEP Dawson in Montréal, Canada.
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| As data usage grows, the need for backhaul capacity multiplies. Operators have a series of complex operational, cost and strategic issues to consider when searching for solutions to their backhaul needs. Traditional solutions such as fibre or point-to-point microwave are costly and, generally speaking, increase power usage and carbon emissions. Point-to-multipoint backhaul, in contrast, costs less to roll out and run, use much less energy for transmission and cooling, reduce emissions and can scale up flexibly to meet growing capacity requirements. |
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Article no.: |
13 |
| Topic: |
Hybrid solutions to next generation IT challenges |
| Author: |
Fabrizio Civitarese |
| Title: |
Vice-President, Asia Pacific |
| Organisation: |
Reliance Globalcom |
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189KB |
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Fabrizio Civitarese is Reliance Globalcom’s Vice President responsible for sales and marketing in the Asia Pacific region. joined Reliance Globalcom (formerly FLAG Telecom) as Strategy and Corporate Development Director for Asia Pacific. Mr Civitarese has over 17 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Reliance Globalcom he held a variety of senior positions in the Telecom Italia Group.
Fabrizio Civitarese holds a First Class Honours Degree in Economics with major in Business Administration from the University of Rome. |
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| As companies expand globally, the complexity of building their corporate networks increases. Even major global carriers cannot effectively reach everywhere, and few if any businesses have the necessary size, resources or desire to deal with a great number of local service providers around the globe. As a result, even large companies increasingly rely on major carriers with established relationships with top-notch local service providers to piece together hybrid networks, mixing and matching technologies as needed, to guarantee quality connectivity everywhere. |
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