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Interconnecting in a Multi-polar World
Interoperability is driven by market demand. It is Online
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crucial in a multi-vendor, multi-network and multi- Programme
service environment and is one of the reasons why we
develop standards. It gives users much greater choice of
products, and allows manufacturers to benefit from the
economies of scale of a wider market. Interoperability
is therefore a crucial factor in the success of modern
technologies – especially in the introduction of new
technologies.
An Innovative Approach to Technical Plugtests event, as well as a final eCall interoperability event,
Quality and Interoperability in partnership with ERTICO, before deployment of the system
Our technical committees apply best working practices to in October.
ensure that our standards are well-specified and testable and We will continue to support the development of the Internet
thus provide a solid basis for the implementation of robust of Things (IoT) and, together with our fellow Partners in the
and interoperable products. Our Centre for Testing and oneM2M project, we will continue to organise the series of
Interoperability (CTI) supports our committees with hands-on oneM2M Interop events.
expertise in standards validation.
Our activities in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) will
In 2017 we will continue to make use of tools commonly be extended to include a Plugtests event for Vehicle-to-
used in software development for our test suite repositories, Everything (V2X) over LTE™.
bug tracking and quality control, as part of our strategic
move towards more agile specification and testing
approaches. The CTI will continue to provide practical daily
support to our Open Source initiatives – our Open Source
MANO group (ETSI OSM) and the Test Description Language
(TDL) Open Source Project (TOP). We will also set up
repositories, collaboration tools and dedicated development
environments for application interface specifications and
other code-like languages.

The popularity of Proof of Concept (PoC) demonstrations
to facilitate early standardisation activities and feedback
is increasing. PoCs are being well used – with great
success – by our Industry Specification Groups (ISGs) on
Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Multi-access
Edge Computing (MEC) and by our Network Technologies
committee (TC NTECH). We will continue to develop the use
and the scope of PoCs in 2017.

Plugtests™ Events
Our Plugtests events provide an opportunity for companies
to interconnect prototype or production implementations of
standards to test for interoperability and, where necessary,
conformance to requirements. These events provide a highly
cost-effective and practical way of identifying inconsistencies
in either an implementation or the standard itself. We plan
to run around 12 Plugtests events in 2017, with varying
formats to meet the specific needs of our members and the
industries we serve.

This year we will focus on emergency communications.
We are organising further Next Generation emergency call
(NG 112) events and our first Mission-Critical Push-to-Talk

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