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Forr The Planet: Sustainability Interview Series — Mary de Wysocki, Chief Sustainability Officer at Cisco

Forrester IT

Photo Copyright: Abhinav Sunil Sustainability in digital communications, data transmission, networking, and telecommunications is a critical component for climate action. According to the International Energy Agency, data transmission networks consumed 260–340 TWh (terawatt-hours) in 2021, or 1.1–1.4% of global electricity use.

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Climate campaign pushes Bitcoin network to drop energy-hungry code

The Verge

Greenpeace and other environmental groups launched a new campaign today to push the Bitcoin network to slash its growing greenhouse gas emissions. The goal of the campaign, dubbed “Change the code, not the climate,” is to switch up the energy-hungry process of verifying transactions and mining new Bitcoins.

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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

CIO Business Intelligence

All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution. So what does it take on the hardware side? The rise of AI means that the network is the computer, and connectivity is its lifeline.

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Amazon says Sidewalk reaches 90% of U.S. population, as it opens network to developers

GeekWire

Amazon released this estimated coverage map Tuesday for its Sidewalk wireless network. Amazon says its Sidewalk community wireless network, formed by pooling internet bandwidth from users of Amazon devices, now covers 90% of the U.S. Amazon’s Sidewalk network testing device. population.

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Private 5G networks are sparking innovation at the edge

CIO Business Intelligence

For the enterprise, planning edge strategies and reaping their rewards is often a complex and challenging process, with myriad applications to deploy, a proliferation of hardware devices to manage, multiple data types and sources to integrate, and significant security risks to avoid. To learn more, visit us here.

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How Orange’s CTO is driving network transformation

TM Forum

As Orange Group’s CTO and Senior Vice President Orange Innovation Networks he is responsible for steering the evolution of the operator’s networks, including their software transformation. The software transformation … of the network is something that started some years ago on the IT side.

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5 things CIOs must understand about AI infrastructure

CIO Business Intelligence

Physical data center design is foundational, and the silent, longtail impact of an incorrectly provisioned system can mean launching into a “false start” deployment based on incorrect power, cooling, and network elements. Performance optimization Second to good design is the impact of complex, low-latency GPU networking fabrics.