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Are we dealing with Energy in Telecom Infrastructure with passionate zeal?

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:14:45 -0700

Robert Kjelldorff,

President, Purcell Systems International

I guess not. It is a fact that the ICT and Telecom networks can consume up to 10% of the country’s energy and in warm countries the cooling systems can use as much energy as the electronics itself!!

Traditional wireless telecom sites were built with shelter in which the active telecom equipment was placed and cooled using air conditioners, often with a back-up unit -should primary fail. Modern electronics can withstand higher temperatu...

Elimination, Transformation and Innovation

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:14:45 -0700

S.K. Balasubramaniam,

The Tower Industry in India is taking firm steps towards enhancing performance, reliability and cost optimization of the Passive Infrastructure it maintains for the Operators. While the spread and distribution of Towers in Urban, suburban and rural areas poses challenges of reach and varying technological complexities, they are aggravated further by field conditions- climatic, social and financial.

We have to make sure that keen efforts are made in determining the var...

Uptime – And its redefinition in Telecom Infrastructure

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:14:45 -0700

Sairam Prasad,

Chief Technology officer, Bharti Infratel Limited

From the very early stages of development of Telecom Infrastructure in India – where an outage of a few hours of service (or even days) in the traditional fixed line telephony was acceptable, to the current phase of high-speed broadband ready 3G networks – not only have the services, but it is also the user expectation which has undergone a 360° change. The definition of Uptime has been reviewed, revised and revisited.

Downtime in...

INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING in Telecom – UNLIMITED POSSIBILIIES

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:14:45 -0700

Inder Bajaj

Chief Executive Officer of Helios Towers Nigeria, and Director of Helios Towers Africa

The drivers of demand for infrastructure in Telecom have been explosive for growing wireless penetration, including but not limited to, un-penetrated and rural areas in emerging markets, increasing data usage, smart phone penetration, and new technologies(3G and 4G). This has led to capacity investments. The obvious advantage of infrastructure sharing is not duplicating capital costs while ...