Sophia Antipolis, 19 December 2014
ETSI’s Powerline Telecommunications Technical Committee (TC PLT) has published a Technical Report assessing new video distribution services in a connected home environment.
Sophia Antipolis, 19 December 2014
ETSI has created a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) to work on millimetre Wave Transmission (mWT), with the first meeting taking place at ETSI on 14-15 January 2015.
Sophia Antipolis, 12 December 2014
First meeting defines work programme, with first results expected next year
The first meeting of ETSI’s newly created Mobile-Edge Computing (MEC) Industry Specification Group (ISG) took place on 2-4 December 2014, hosted by Nokia Networks in Munich. The group has attracted 24 member and participant organizations, including network operators, vendors, technology suppliers and Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers.
Sophia Antipolis, 5 December 2014
Now connected cars find their way in Europe
ETSI has just published two European Standards for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS): the specification of Cooperative Awareness Basic Service - EN 302 637-2, and the specification of Decentralized Environmental Notification Basic Service - EN 302 637-3. They define the message sets needed for running Cooperative ITS safety critical applications. Published as Technical Specifications in Release 1 of ETSI ITS, the ENs have been prepared taking into account feedback from Plugtests™ interoperability testing workshops organized by ETSI for the industry, as well as feedback from implementation. They were developed under Mandate 453 of the European Commission.
Sophia Antipolis, 4 December 2014
New leadership, organization, and renewed focus on implementation
The ETSI Network Functions Virtualization Industry Specification Group (NFV ISG) has completed its 8th meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, with over 200 participants kicking-off Phase 2 of the work.
Sophia Antipolis, 26 November 2014
The ETSI summit on critical and emergency communications, held on 20 November in ETSI’s newly extended amphitheatre in Sophia Antipolis, attracted participants from many sectors. Regulators, public authorities, users, analysts, standard organizations and industry associations gave insights of their expertise and shared their own experiences in the provision of critical and emergency communications, or in using these technologies to save lives.
Sophia Antipolis, 20 November 2014
At their 64th General Assembly held on 18-19 November 2014, ETSI members have appointed Mr. Simon Hicks of the UK government Digital Economy Unit as Chair of the ETSI General Assembly, for a two-year term of office.
Sophia Antipolis, 18 November 2014
ETSI’s Industry Specification Group (ISG) for Surface Mount Technique (SMT) has released its group specification for embedded communication modules for machine to machine communications.
Sophia Antipolis, 10 November 2014
Industry-leading vendors and operators come together to present and demonstrate the latest advances in M2M and Internet of Things technologies
Sophia Antipolis, 30 October 2014
IT and cloud-computing capabilities in close proximity to mobile subscribers
ETSI is launching a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) for Mobile-edge Computing (MEC). The initiative was announced during the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Dusseldorf in Germany, taking place from 14-17 October. The first meeting of the group will take place, December 2-4, 2014 in Munich, Germany.
Sophia Antipolis, 28 October 2014
ETSI, in partnership with the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), organized its second Quantum-Safe Crypto workshop on 6-7 October in Ottawa, Canada. The workshop was aimed at developing short and medium term objectives needed to reach the goal of a quantum-safe cryptographic infrastructure. Indeed since quantum computers will be able to break certain cryptographic keys, it is then essential to work on a quantum-safe system.
Sophia Antipolis, 22 October 2014
The second workshop jointly organized by the European Commission’s DG CONNECT and ETSI on smart appliances took place at ETSI in Sophia Antipolis on 14 October.
Sophia Antipolis, 2 October 2014
Global Telecoms Business magazine and website has named Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of ETSI, as one of the most powerful people in the telecommunications industry worldwide, joining top executives from the industry’s leading companies.
Sophia Antipolis, 30 September 2014
Billions of connected objects now have the solution for low throughput connectivity
ETSI’s standardization group dedicated to Low Throughput Networks technology has just released the first three specifications of an Internet of Things (IoT) network dedicated to low throughput communications.
Sophia Antipolis, 29 September 2014
The largest standardization body for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications is set to host a showcase event to demonstrate the newest release of specifications that enable large-scale implementation of the Internet of Things
Sophia Antipolis, 9 September 2014
A new ETSI Standard – the ‘Green Abstraction Layer (GAL)’ – enables operators for the first time to manage the energy consumption of telecom networks easily, offsetting network performance and capacity against energy costs.
Sophia-Antipolis, France, 7 August 2014
oneM2M, the Global Partnership developing standards for Machine‐to‐Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet‐of‐Things (IoT) announced that its initial Candidate Release of Technical Specifications is now available for public comment.
Sophia-Antipolis, France, 4 August 2014
oneM2M, the Global Partnership developing standards for Machine‐to‐Machine (M2M) communications enabling large‐scale implementation of the Internet‐of‐Things (IoT), concluded its second year with election of a new Steering Committee.
Santa Clara, 1 August 2014
At the 7th meeting of ETSI’s Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Industry Specification Group (ISG), co-hosted by Citrix and Ericsson in Santa Clara from 29 July to 1 August 2014, nine draft NFV documents were released for industry comment, a new leadership team was elected and plans for the next phase of NFV were laid down.
Sophia Antipolis, France, 28 July 2014
The 18th meeting of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC), a senior-level gathering of the world’s leading information and communication technologies (ICT) standards organizations, took place on 22 - 23 July 2014, hosted by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) in Sophia Antipolis, France.
Sophia Antipolis, France, 28 July 2014
The China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) and ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), extending a relationship established 10 years ago. This renewal enables CCSA and ETSI to share information on their work in order to contribute to the development of globally-aligned standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
Sophia Antipolis, 25 July 2014
The 19th meeting of the ETSI Special Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR SC) was hosted by the German Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunication, Post and Railway, in Mainz (Germany) from 14 to 16 May 2014.
Sophia Antipolis, 17 July 2014
Standards for Internet of Things (IoT) were the focus of the latest in ETSI’s series of workshops, held on 3-4 July, in Sophia Antipolis, France. This event was jointly organized with the European Commission, which brought a new perspective to the discussions.
Sophia Antipolis, 4 July 2014
ETSI’s m-Payment workshop, co-organized with the European Commission on 1-2 July 2014 in Sophia Antipolis, attracted a wide audience of key stakeholders coming from the world of electronic payments.
Sophia Antipolis, 25 June 2014
With a reliable, flexible and eco-friendly standard, ICT goes green
ETSI, a major actor in Information and Communication Technology standardization (ICT), has recently published the DCEM (Data Centre Energy Management) indicator standard, to measure energy efficiency and compare energy management efficiency in data centres.
Sophia Antipolis, 24 June 2014
ETSI organized the first interoperability Plugfest event on Mezzanine Film Format on 12-13 June in Paris, to bring together motion picture stakeholders in order to test the interoperability of the first implementations of this new audio-visual industry specification.
Sophia Antipolis, 20 June 2014
ETSI’s recent workshop on Human factors in Information and Communication Technology that took place in Sophia Antipolis, France on 3-4 June, identified opportunities to improve the accessibility of ICT products and services, through further standardization and cooperation with all parties who are working on improving human factors in ICT.
Sophia Antipolis, France – 11 June 2014
Innovative ideas and best practices from users to users in advanced automated testing
This year, the international ETSI User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT) will be held in Munich, on 16-18 September. Dedicated to advanced test automation, the upcoming conference will cover testing in a variety of industrial sectors.
Sophia Antipolis, 10 June 2014
The international Porvoo Group conference convened in the ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France, 22-23 May 2014, considered questions related to European electronic identity and safe online services. Participants came from nine European countries.
Sophia Antipolis, 6 June 2014
An open workshop jointly organized by the European Commission’s DG CONNECT and ETSI on machine-to-machine smart appliances took place in Brussels on 27-28 May. Presentations outlined ETSI’s objectives and presented the scope of the European Commission’s study. ETSI’s and TNO’s approach - TNO being the organization in charge of the report to the EC - reached wide acceptation by the audience.
Sophia Antipolis, 2 June 2014
Standard gives industry a uniform way to measure climate impact
ETSI and ITU have decided to jointly develop a standard to assess the direct environmental impact of ICT goods, networks and services, as well as their indirect impact on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of non-ICT industry sector.
Sophia Antipolis, 21 May 2014
ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, and EIT ICT Labs, the Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Technology (EIT) will sign a Letter of Intent, at the ETSI headquarters in Sophia-Antipolis, on May 28, Inauguration Day of the EIT ICT Labs Sophia-Antipolis Co-location Centre. This agreement between ETSI and EIT ICT Labs will help future entrepreneurs to foster innovation through standardization.
Sophia Antipolis, 19 May 2014
The ETSI eHealth Workshop on 6-7 May 2014 attracted interest from around the world. Participants came not only from Europe, but from Indonesia, Russia, and the United States to the new amphitheatre at Sophia-Antipolis to discuss Telemedicine.
Sophia Antipolis, 29 April 2014
Flexible, cost effective and enhanced experience for industry and end-users
ETSI, the leading ICT standards organization, has released this month AC-4 the next generation digital audio compression standard for tomorrow’s media delivery environments, offering the flexibility to support future audio experiences.
Berlin, Germany 11 April 2014
oneM2M, the Global Partnership developing standards for Machine‐to‐Machine (M2M) communications enabling large‐scale implementation of the Internet‐of‐Things (IoT), confirmed plans at its 10th Technical Plenary meeting to release its initial specifications in August 2014.
Sophia Antipolis, 3 April 2014
A high-level delegation from the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs) – CEN, CENELEC and ETSI – met with Neelie Kroes, the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, in Brussels yesterday (2 April 2014). During this meeting, the representatives from the three ESOs presented their latest proposals regarding how to maximize the positive contribution that standards can make to enhancing internet security and protecting personal data, in order to support the successful implementation of the EU Cybersecurity Strategy.
Sophia Antipolis, 3 April 2014
ETSI’s SmartM2M Technical Committee has launched the development of a standard for communication between Smart Appliances. The future standard will be based upon ETSI’s functional architecture for Machine to Machine communications, and will include a common data model and the identification of communication protocols.
Sophia Antipolis, 28 March 2014
ETSI, the leading ICT standards organization, has opened a new technical committee on Cybersecurity to address the growing demands for standards in this field.
NFV & SDN Summit, Paris, 18 March 2014
Expanded relationship to further NFV adoption; OpenFlow-enabled SDN and NFV Solutions Brief published to outline how OpenFlow-enabled SDN can accelerate NFV deployments
ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, an industry-led standards development organization, and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking (SDN), today announced a strategic partnership agreement to further the development of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) specifications.
Sophia Antipolis, 14 March 2014
To strengthen dialogue on ICT standards between India and Europe, ETSI organised a conference in New Delhi on 13-14 March.
Sophia Antipolis, 14 March 2014
ETSI has launched a new Industry Specification Group on Embedded Common Interface (ECI) for exchangeable Conditional Access (CA) and Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions. The work of this ISG is to consider a standardized environment for a general purpose, software based, embedded, exchangeable CA/DRM system. These standards should allow consumers to be able to continue using equipment and content they have previously paid for, after a move or a change of network provider, or access content from multiple service providers using the same device.
Sophia Antipolis, 13 March 2014
With the rapid growth in applications for both RFID and short range devices, industry has recognized that there is an urgent need for additional spectrum for these applications in the UHF band. In submissions to CEPT, ETSI proposed that the 870-876 MHz band, allocated to TETRA but unused, be assigned to short range devices. Now the CEPT working group on Frequency Management has decided to make additional spectrum available for short range devices and RFID in the 870-876 MHz and 915-921 MHz bands.
Sophia Antipolis, 4 March 2014
The ETSI Special Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR SC) was hosted by the German Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunication, Post and Railway, in Mainz (Germany) from 18 to 20 February 2014.
Sophia Antipolis, 4 March 2014
oneM2M, the Global Partnership developing standards for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications enabling large-scale implementation of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), met in historic Mobile, Alabama USA the week of February 17-21, 2014, for their 9th Technical Plenary meeting, where it affirmed the scope and target for approval of initial oneM2M Release 1 specifications in August 2014.
Sophia Antipolis, 19 February 2014
The European Standardization Organizations – CEN, CENELEC and ETSI – are pleased to announce the publication of a new European Standard on accessibility requirements for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) products and services. This new standard (EN 301 549) is the first European Standard for accessible ICT. It is intended in particular for use by public authorities and other public sector bodies during procurement, to ensure that websites, software, digital devices are more accessible – so they may be used by persons with a wide range of abilities.
Berlin, 12 February 2014
A key step towards connected cars in Europe
CEN and ETSI have confirmed today, at the 6th ETSI workshop on ITS in Berlin, that the basic set of standards for Cooperative Intelligence Transport Systems (C-ITS), as requested by the European Commission in 2009, have now been adopted and issued. The so-called 'Release 1 specifications' developed by CEN and ETSI will enable vehicles made by different manufacturers to communicate with each other and with the road infrastructure systems.
Sophia Antipolis, 31 January 2014
oneM2M has made significant progress in its requirements, architecture and protocol standardization work during its eighth face to face Technical Plenary (TP 8) and Working Groups meeting in Miyazaki, Japan on 9-13 December 2013.
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France - 24 January 2014
Security experts from partner standards bodies, consortia, industry and academia gathered for the 9th ETSI workshop on Security on January 15 and 16, in Sophia Antipolis.
Brussels, 22 January 2014
Representatives from CEN, CENELEC, ETSI (ESOs) and ANSI met in Brussels, Belgium on 21 and 22 January 2014 to advance discussions in formalizing cooperation on standardization matters.
Sophia Antipolis, France – 15 January 2014
ETSI, the leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) standards organization, has released its new white paper on ICT security related standards today. This white paper describes the security-related work undertaken in each of ETSI’s technology fields, including mobile/wireless communications, network infrastructure, electronic signatures, smart cards and emergency telecommunications.
