大家好！看过上篇博文的朋友都会记得我的朋友Kenneth. Kenneth家在德阳，离灾区很近。地震后，他一直没有出现，我数次打电话给他，都联系不上。

 

Kenneth今天出现了，他也看到了大家的留言，特地让我把他的感谢和感激转给大家，转给牵挂灾区的每一个人。

 

付Kenneth翻译作品（英译中）：

 

Telecom News

 

Hoping for a sale, Siemens slashes jobs at its last remaining telecom asset

 

Europe’s biggest engineering conglomerate, Siemens AG, will cut 6,800 jobs at the corporate telecommunications division it has had up for sale for some two years now. The cuts will affect about 39% of the 17,600 workers at Siemens Enterprise Communications, and are the biggest reductions announced by the German company since 2006 when the newly created Nokia Siemens Networks venture said that it would eliminate 9,000 jobs. The unit makes such products as the Siemens Gigaset for business.

 

Munich-based Siemens said on Feb. 26 that it would eliminate about 3,800 jobs outright, and about 3,000 more as factories are sold or partnerships set up. About 3,200 of the jobs are in Germany, according to Siemens, which will also sell or find partners for the telecom unit’s operations in Greece and Brazil, and sell call centers in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

 

As recapped from London by Simon Thiel of Bloomberg News, Siemens put the Enterprise unit on the block when it created a network partnership with Finland’s Nokia, the market leader in cellphone manufacturing. Recently, contacts about disposition of the unit were reported between Siemens and companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel Networks, and buyout firm Cerberus Partners.

 

“Something had to happen as the unit just doesn't fit into the [Siemens] portfolio any more,” analyst Michael Bahlmann, of M.M. Warburg, said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg. He added, “The job cuts will hopefully make it easier” to sell the business. (“Siemens to Cut 6,800 Jobs at Enterprise Division,” Feb. 26)

 

Siemens is seeking a deal with either “a strategic buyer” or “a financial investor who has some operational experience in that market,” the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser told reporters at a press conference in Munich. Siemens would be open to operating the corporate network division in a joint venture for a transitional period, Mr. Kaeser said, although it wants to exit the business at some point.

 

Mr. Thiel noted that the unit is Siemens’s last remaining telecommunications asset apart from cordless phones. Siemens was founded on telegraphy services 160 years ago, and the telecom division — one of its six major businesses — was the company’s largest before the partnership with Nokia was created. The division bore the brunt of job cuts as demand dried up after 2000.

 

 

FTTH Council Europe sees environmental benefits to fiber use

 

Fiber to the home (FTTH) is exactly what the name suggests: fiber optic communication delivery in which the optical signal reaches the end user’s living or office quarters. And now, after the the fifth annual FTTH Council Europe, held Feb. 27-28 in Paris, its environmental benefits are likely to be promoted along with its general service value.

 

Joeri Van Bogaert, president of FTTH Council Europe, reported on research that will provide a foundation for further inquiry into the subject by the group. He said, “The results clearly demonstrate the overall service and environmental benefits of FTTH. They stand as testament that fiber is a sustainable and future-proof technology for the 21st Century.”

 

Writing in Telecommunications Magazine, Kendrick Struthers-Watson noted the council’s findings that, even as it maximizes opportunity for new services while minimizing the materials and maintenance required, FTTH contributes to reduced road travel, less transport infrastructure, and the introduction of innovative services. (“It’s Official: Fiber Is Environmentally Friendly,” Feb. 28)

 

For its analysis of the impact of an FTTH network, the study took into account the full life-cycle of a typical fiber infrastructure — from production of passive equipment and transport, through implementation of all active equipment and power consumption, to the end of service life.

 

The council worked with the projection of 20 million FTTH users by 2015 supplied by IDATE, the European market analysis and consulting firm. The researchers found that, for the first 15 years of network implementation, greenhouse gas emission savings-per-user were found to be 330 kg: equivalent to the emissions of a car driven for 2,000 kilometers.

 

Christian Ollivry, Chair of the Council’s Sustainable Development and FTTH Committee, told Telecommunications, “Beyond the 15-year time scale, which is quite conservative, the research shows that FTTH provides only positives for Europe.”

 

Power consumption represents only 6% of the total environmental impact over the full network life cycle, while the production and deployment of the equipment totals over 80 percent. Mr. Struthers-Watson noted, however, that “with continuing innovations taking place in the industry these processes are becoming cheaper, quicker, and less disruptive, [holding promise of] reducing the environmental impact and further increasing the sustainability of fiber networks over time.”

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电信新闻

 

西门子为出售电信业务部门裁撤员工

 

欧洲最大的工程企业西门子计划裁掉企业电信通讯部的6,800名员工。西门子从两年前就宣布出售该部门，但一直没有售出。此次裁员将占西门子企业通讯部17,600名员工中的39%，是西门子2006年以来宣布的最大规模裁员计划。2006年成立诺基亚西门子网络公司时，西门子曾表示将裁员9,000人。该部门的产品是针对企业应用的Siemens Gigaset.

 

总部设在慕尼黑的西门子2月26日表示将立即采用大约3,800人，其他在工厂内的大约3,000人将通过出售工厂或者建立合作伙伴关系的方式裁撤。据西门子表示，大约3,200人属于德国雇员。西门子还将以出售或者建立合作伙伴的方式处理希腊和巴西的电信部门业务，并出售阿根廷、智利、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔和秘鲁的呼叫中心。

 

据彭博新闻记者Simon Thiel从伦敦简要报道，自西门子与移动通信市场的龙头诺基亚建立诺西网络公司后，西门子就一直准备出售企业通讯部。近来，不时有西门子与阿尔卡特朗讯、北电和投资公司Cerberus Partners接触，准备处理企业通讯部的报道。

 

据来自独立投资银行的M.M. Warburg在接受彭博采访时表示：“由于该部门不在与西门子的业务配套，被处理是必然的。裁员有助于该资产的出售。”（见2月26日《西门子裁撤企业通讯部6,800员工》）

 

据西门子首席财务官Joe Kaeser在西门子的一个记者招待会上告知记者，西门子一直在寻找属于“战略买家”或者“在市场中有些业务经验的财务投资者”。他还表示，西门子愿意在过度期间以合资公司的方式运作企业通讯部，然后在某个时候彻底脱手。

 

Thiel表示这是除无线电话外西门子最后一个电信部门。西门子是160年前靠电报业务起家的，自此电信部门一直在六大业务部门中排名第一，直到与诺基亚成立诺西网络。由于需求下降，该部门自2000年后一直裁员不断。

 

欧洲光纤到户大会展示光纤的环保价值

 

光纤到户（FTTH）是名副其实的称呼，光纤把光信号传输到最终用户的住宅或者办公地点。现在，在第五届年度光纤到户欧洲大会在2月27日到28日在巴黎召开后，光纤到户在其传统的服务价值外，又被赋予了环境保护价值。

 

在大会上，主席Joeri Van Bogaert报告了奠定了光纤到户环保价值的研究工作情况。他表示：“研究结果清楚地展示了光纤到户的整体服务和环境价值。这些价值证明光纤是一种可持续的、适应未来发展的21世纪技术。”

 

Kendrick Struthers-Watson在《电信》杂志中撰文指出，大会认为，除了能够最大地便利新业务的推出同时减少材料消耗和维护工作，光纤到户线路简捷，所需传输基础设施少，同时便于推出创新服务。（见2月28日《官方结论：光纤具有环保价值》）

 

在分析光纤到户网络的环境影响时，该项研究考察了典型光网络的生命周期，从无源设备和传输线路的生产，到各种有源设备和耗电设备的实施，再到服务周期完毕。

 

大会的报告系根据欧洲市场分析和咨询公司IDATE预计的2015年将有2,000万光纤到户用户。IDATE的研究人员发行，在网络实施的前15年，人均减少温室气体排放量330kg，相当于一辆轿车行驶2,000公里的排放量。

 

大会可持续发展和光纤到户委员会主席Christian Ollivry在接受《电信》采访时表示：“在这15年后，即便是根据保守的预计，光纤到户带给欧洲的也只是好处，没有坏处。”

 

在整个生命周期期间，耗电只占总环境影响的6%，而设备的生产和部署则占80%以上。但是，Struthers-Watson表示，“随着业界不断进行的创新，这两道工序的成本会下降、执行速度会上升、对环境的影响会更小，从而减少整体环境影响，增加光网络长时间的可持续性。”

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