Sophia Antipolis, November 18, 2024
The status of Open Source as a mature component of the standardization landscape and as a tool of choice for research and product development has shone through the agenda of this week’s Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services - SNS4SNS - event.
A mix of presentations, tutorials, Hackfests, posters, demos and social networking over three days has attracted over 100 experts to ETSI to explore the role of software development, advanced research and industry standards in next generation networks.
Software Development Groups (SDGs) by ETSI have been the bedrock of this week’s event, providing a day and a half of tutorials, a wide range of demos and posters, and often the main actors in discussions across the SNS4SNS agenda.
The first day of the event was entirely dedicated to tutorial style Hackfest sessions. In the morning, the ETSI SDG OpenSlice held the opening Hackfest session, focused on getting participants to experiment with their open source service based Operations Support Systems (OSS) to deliver Network as a Service (NaaS). In the afternoon, SDG TeraFlowSDN had their 5th Hackfest enabling hands on experimentation with their open source cloud native SDN controller, looking at how to deploy, onboard, control, and monitor network devices like programmable routers and white boxes - in networks beyond 5G.
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| SNS4SNS SDG OpenSlice Hackfest | SNS4SNS SDG OpenCAPIF Hackfest | SNS4SNS SDG TeraFlowSDN Hackfest |
On the second day, all attendees gathered to participate in conference sessions, exploring opportunities for synergies and collaboration among industry standardization, open source communities and research initiatives through sessions dedicated to: Access Networks & Services, Telco Cloud Infrastructure, Management, -Orchestration and Operations, followed by Network Exposure, APIs and Programmability on day 3.
The conference was jointly opened by the ETSI Director General, Jan Ellsberger and David Artuñedo, Ricard Vilalta and Christos Tranoris, chairs of ETSI SDGs OpenCAPIF, TeraFlowSDN and OpenSlice respectively.
In the first keynote of the conference, Erzsébet Fitori, SNS-JU Executive Director, reenforced the established links and investment at the EU level, helping to bring academia, funded research projects and industrial R&D into the open standards environment.
Those relationships were reflected in other key presentations during #SNS4SNS, each building a picture of how three pillars standardization-opensource-research can efficiently collaborate and contribute to an open and healthy networking ecosystem.
The final session of SNS4SNS conference reflected on the discussions of the week, with a panel considering the next steps featuring network operators, 6G-IA, and key ETSI representatives.
The event concluded with a last Hackfest, this time featuring ETSI SDG OpenCAPIF – to explore key concepts, discover 3GPP CAPIF standards and experiment with their open source Common API Framework.
During the 3 days, participants could discover a wide range of demonstrations and posters, showcasing how the code produced by ETSI SDGs can be leveraged to implement innovative networking use cases, paving the way to 6G.
Presentations from the conference are available online at: www.etsi.org/events/2407-etsi-sns4sns-event. Hackfest material and videos are available on the different Hackfest wikis.
This week’s Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services - SNS4SNS – event has given us the chance to explore how standards, open source and research can collaborate to leverage opportunities to standardize, build and lead 6G to success - together.