Sophia Antipolis, 29 November 2016
Three Home Gateway Initiative specifications have been published as Technical Specifications by ETSI. Following the closure of the Home Gateway Initiative in June 2016, work on the three specifications was transferred to ETSI. They have now been published using the ETSI Publicly Available Specification process.
Sophia Antipolis, 6 December 2016
Award granted for outstanding contribution to ETSI’s work
On 29 November, during the 68th General Assembly, ETSI awarded three ETSI Fellowship awards to Alain Maloberti, Francisco da Silva and Oliver Wheaton.
Sophia Antipolis, 1 December 2016
At their 68th General Assembly held on 29-30 November 2016, ETSI members have re-appointed Mr. Simon Hicks of the UK government’s Digital Economy Unit as Chairman of the ETSI General Assembly, for a two-year term of office.
Sophia Antipolis, 25 November 2016
By 2020 each person is expected to have an average of four connected devices.
Sophia Antipolis, 10 October 2016
Scenarios for a 21st century Internet
Today, the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Next Generation Protocols (NGP ISG) announced the release of its first specifications, GS NGP 001: Next Generation Protocols; Scenarios Definitions.
Sophia Antipolis, 7 October 2016
Developing the Next Generation Radio for Rail
ETSI’s first workshop on the next generation radio for rail will take place on 2-3 November in ETSI headquarters, Sophia Antipolis.
Sophia Antipolis, 4 October 2016
Delivering superior interoperability, modelling and installation experience
ETSI’s Open Source MANO (OSM) group has today announced the availability of its OSM Release ONE, an open source Management and Orchestration (MANO) software stack closely aligned with ETSI NFV, and focused on helping industry accelerate the implementation of network virtualization.
Sophia Antipolis, 29 September 2016
The full potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) advanced significantly today as oneM2M, the global standards initiative for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and the IoT, published a new landmark set of specifications, Release 2.
Sophia Antipolis, 27 September 2016
ETSI welcomes the recognition by the White House of our participation in an international group developing a Smart City Framework. The announcement comes on the opening of the Smart Cities Week event in Washington D.C.
Sophia Antipolis, 27 September 2016
NFV Architectural Framework gains further traction as greater breadth of key parameters are determined
ETSI has today announced the availability of the NFV Release 2 specifications, delivering requirements, interfaces and information models for Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV).
Sophia Antipolis, 20 September 2016
Testing event in Livorno to show convergence between IoT and ITS
Today, ETSI announces its 5th ETSI ITS PlugtestTM, a two week testing event for co-operative transport systems focusing on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications.
Sophia Antipolis, 6 September 2016
Over 20 countries worldwide benefit from HbbTV services
The newly published ETSI specification TS 102 796 V1.4.1 on hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV) will allow the United Kingdom and Italy to implement the latest technologies in their receivers.
Sophia Antipolis, 8 September 2016
The 4th ETSI/IQC Workshop will take place in Toronto, Canada, from 19 to 21 September 2016. The event is organized by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) and the Institute for Quantum Computing and sponsored by ISARA and Evolutionq.
Sophia Antipolis, 7 September 2016
Don’t miss out on the early bird rate: book before 15 September
ETSI’s User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT) 2016, now in its fourth year, is an annual, international conference dedicated to application aspects of automated testing including model-based, cloud and mobile testing, test methodologies and management and standardized test specification by focusing on the practical challenges that industry often faces.
Sophia Antipolis, 1 September 2016
ETSI is pleased to announce that the first ETSI MEC PoC Zone will be part of MEC World Congress, taking place from 20 to 22 September 2016 in Munich.
Sophia Antipolis, 25 August 2016
Major standards organizations from around the world agree to work together to help move cities faster to greater smartness
In the wake of the World Smart City Forum, which was held on 13 July 2016 in Singapore, representatives of IEC, ISO, ITU, IEEE, CEN-CENELEC and ETSI gathered for a meeting initiated by the IEC. This, meeting was a global first and part of an ongoing dialog among standards organizations. The aim was to accelerate and better align Smart City standardization work, which is essential for successful Smart City deployment. Between 60% and 70% of humanity is expected to be living in urban environments by 2050.
Sophia Antipolis, 28 July 2016
Diego Lopez, Telefonica, elected as ETSI NFV Chairman from 1 August 2016
ETSI’s Industry Specification Group for Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) has renewed its leadership team and established a new structure to meet the demands of its forthcoming set of protocol and data model specifications.
Sophia Antipolis, 8 July 2016
The 4th User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing now on track!
ETSI's User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT) 2016, now in its fourth year, is an annual and international conference dedicated to application aspects of automated testing including model-based testing, cloud testing, mobile testing, test methodologies, test management and standardized test specification by focusing on the practical challenges that are often faced in industry. Organized by ETSI, this year's event is hosted by Ericsson and Nokia in Budapest, in partnership with the Hungarian Testing Board on 26-28 October 2016.
Sophia Antipolis, 8 July 2016
Electronic signatures, electronic seals and electronic time-stamps support the digital economy
Since 1 July 2016 the major part of the European Union's (EU) eIDAS regulation applies. The eIDAS regulation is Regulation (EU) N°910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market.
Sophia Antipolis, 14 June 2016
Extensive work programme to prepare for new radio regulations in Europe
Yesterday, the new Radio Equipment Directive came into force in Europe. This major update of Europe’s single market rules for radio equipment was published in May 2014.
Sophia Antipolis, 31 May 2016
ETSI has unveiled a new Industry Specification Group, the Mobile and Broadcast Convergence (MBC) ISG.
Sophia Antipolis, 26 May 2016
Community grows to 30 members
ETSI’s Open Source MANO (OSM) initiative has today announced the availability of its Release 0 code package, a month ahead of schedule.
Sophia Antipolis, 12 May 2016
This week ETSI focused on moving “From Research to Standardization”, with a workshop bringing together research and standardization stakeholders in the context of the European Union’s H2020 research programme.
Sophia Antipolis, 12 May 2016
On 19 April 2016 during the 67th General Assembly dinner, ETSI awarded the first of its newly-launched ETSI Fellowship awards to Karsten Meinhold, Julian Pritchard and Karl Heinz Rosenbrock.
Sophia Antipolis, 29 April 2016
ETSI's 5G summit, "from Myth to Reality", held last week at ETSI, attracted nearly 250 attendees. The summit focused on three key drivers for future 5G networks: massive mobile broadband, massive machine-type communication and ultra‐reliable and low latency communication. The summit was composed of four sessions of presentations, posters and panel discussions with speakers from across industry sectors.
Sophia Antipolis, 28 April 2016
The Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, Security and Privacy and the Role of Small and Medium-sized Business Enterprises (SMEs) were the focus of the 20th meeting of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC), hosted by TSDSI in New Delhi, India 26-27 April 2016. These topics were chosen due to their significance for the development of future global communications. Approximately one hundred people from the twelve member organizations participated in the event.
Sophia Antipolis, 21 April 2016
ETSI signs Publicly Available Specifications agreement with HGI
ETSI and HGI are pleased to jointly announce that they have signed a Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) agreement during ETSI’s 67th General Assembly, on 19 April.
Sophia Antipolis, 19 April 2016
ETSI welcomes and broadly supports the Communication released today by the European Commission on Digitising European Industry, and the accompanying documents, in particular the ICT Standardization Priorities for the Digital Single Market.
Sophia Antipolis, 19 April 2016
During its 67th General Assembly on 19 April 2016, ETSI signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Eurosmart. This agreement will enrich the ecosystem of security-related issues in ETSI and help to ensure the security robustness of next generation (5G) telecommunications networks.
Sophia Antipolis, 18 April 2016
ETSI Mobile Edge Computing Industry Specification Group (MEC ISG) has just released three foundation-level Group Specifications which define mobile edge computing terminology, study technical requirements and use cases, and specify the framework and reference architecture of MEC.
Sophia Antipolis, 12 April 2016
New open source NFV initiative settles leadership and structures, plans Release 0 within two months
The ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) group successfully completed its inaugural meeting at ETSI in Sophia Antipolis, France, to lay the technical and community engagement foundations for the group’s 2016 roadmap.
Sophia Antipolis, 31 March 2016
Exclusive event includes special focus on HetNet and SON configurations / Tests enable interoperability and drive effective small cell ecosystem / Integration with unlicensed spectrum also included in the available tests
Small Cell Forum, in partnership with ETSI, is to stage its fourth small cell LTE Plugfest in Naples in June. Taking place in TIM specialist labs, the Plugfest will enable key players and suppliers in the small cell marketplace to test their products and solutions for interoperability and reliability in mixed vendor environments.
Sophia Antipolis, 21 March 2016
Next release to incorporate security and interworking across IoT device ecosystems
ETSI has announced today that it has published the complete set of updated oneM2M Release 1 specifications. oneM2M, the global standards initiative for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT), and of which ETSI is a founding partner, recently issued updated editions of its Release 1 global specifications.
Sophia Antipolis, 14 March 2016
Improving emergency communications in Europe!
The first Next Generation 112 (NG112) Emergency Communications PlugtestsTM in Europe is launched today by ETSI and its Emergency Telecommunications (EMTEL) special committee and EENA (the European Emergency Number Association). The aim of the event is to trial independently and jointly all components of the 112 communication chain based on next generation networks.
Sophia Antipolis, 2 March 2016
The International Critical Communications Awards (ICCA) event took place in the Honourable Artillery Company, London, on 26 February.
Sophia Antipolis, 25 February 2016
Call for presentations now available!
ETSI is pleased to announce the launch of the User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT) 2016. The conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary, on 26-28 October 2016.
Sophia Antipolis, 22 February 2016
Open Source MANO will deliver an Open Source NFV Management and Orchestration software stack
A new ETSI group has commenced development of Open Source software for Management and Orchestration (MANO) of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The open source implementation will be aligned with ETSI’s NFV Industry Specification Group (ISG).
Sophia Antipolis, 26 January 2016
ETSI has opened a new Industry Specification Group to commence work on Next Generation Protocols, looking at evolving communications and networking protocols to provide the scale, security, mobility and ease of deployment required for the connected society of the 21st century. The first meeting of this group took place on 21 January 2016, and was hosted by BSI, the UK National Standards Organization, at their offices in London.
Louisville, Colorado, 15 January 2016
First multi-organization workshop bringing the NFV community together
This week ETSI’s Industry Specification Group for Network Functions Virtualisation (ETSI NFV) convened a ground-breaking industry workshop to align cloud-centric initiatives and network-centric initiatives to ensure successful realization of NFV through automation.
