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Testing and interoperability challenges made simple by the users to the users at ETSI’s annual UCAAT Conference in Paris

Sophia Antipolis, 25 October 2018

The ETSI User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT) that took place from 16-18 October gathered users, vendors and service providers around testing and automation in the beautiful city of Paris.


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An homage to Professor Michael Walker OBE

Professor Michael Walker OBE, who has died aged 71, moved from being a mathematics Professor (Privatdozent) at the University of Tübingen to being a world renowned expert on Cyber and Mobile Security and Cryptography within the telecommunications industry and academia.


ETSI publishes Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defence as Technical Reports

Sophia Antipolis, 3 October 2018

The ETSI technical committee CYBER has updated its five-part international compendium of Technical Reports to protect networks from cyber-attacks: the “Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defence” are based on the CIS Controls® and related materials.



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ETSI MEC Hackathons bring developers together in China, Germany and Italy to trial edge computing solutions

Sophia Antipolis, 8 October 2018

ETSI’s Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has declared its first MEC Hackathons series a success after developers gathered in Europe and China to test their applications with ETSI MEC APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) in a variety of use cases.





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ETSI Mission Critical Plugtests event reports a 92% success rate

Sophia Antipolis, 28 August 2018

The capacities of Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT), Mission Critical Data (MCData) and Mission Critical Video (MCVideo) based on 3GPP release-14 were tested during the week of the second MCPTT Plugtests on 25-29 June 2018 in College Station, Texas.



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Join the 1st ETSI MEC Hackathon at Edge Computing Congress, Berlin!

Sophia Antipolis, 14 June 2018

ETSI will be organising its first ETSI MEC Hackathon on 18 and 19 of September 2018, taking place in Berlin, and co-located with Knect365’s event at the annual Edge Computing Congress on 18-20 September.



CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, the European Commission and EFTA organize third Indo-European conference on standards and emerging technology

New Delhi, India, 26 April 2018

Today, CEN, CENELEC, ETSI along with the European Commission (EC) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), in the framework of their Project SESEI (Seconded European Standardization Expert in India) and in association with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), organized the third Indo-European conference on Standards and Emerging Technologies, held in New Delhi, India.



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ETSI Summit round up on Data Protection and Privacy

Sophia Antipolis, 19 April 2018

ETSI summit “Releasing the Flow - Data Protection and Privacy in a Data-Driven Economy” organized today at ETSI was the place to exchange views and concerns on data protection and privacy, topics that impact both enterprises and citizens’ lives. 



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ETSI releases standard on Pan-European Mobile Emergency Application

Sophia Antipolis, 28 March 2018

Toward a 112 pan-European app on your smart phone

ETSI has released today the Technical Specification TS 103 478. Developed by the ETSI special committee on Emergency Communications (EMTEL), the specification defines the requirements and architecture of Pan-European Mobile Emergency Applications (PEMEA).


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ETSI and OPNFV Announce Co-Located Testing and Interoperability Events

Sophia Antipolis, France, 21 March 2018

The Third ETSI NFV Plugtests Event and OPNFV Fraser Plugfest will take place at ETSI from 29 May to 8 June

ETSI and OPNFV will co-locate their next community testing events in Sophia Antipolis, France.


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Some ETSI news at Mobile World Congress 2018

Sophia Antipolis, 16 March 2018

Missed the show? Get some hints there

This year again, ETSI was present at Mobile World Congress, meeting our members and searching the halls for the latest innovations and demos of our technologies (NFV, MEC, OSM and much more).


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ETSI Multi-access Edge Computing keeps pace with 5G

Sophia Antipolis, 22 February 2018

ETSI’s group on Multi-access Edge Computing (ETSI MEC ISG) is pleased to announce upcoming Hackathons and the release of two white papers entitled “Cloud RAN and MEC: a perfect pairing” and “MEC deployments in 4G and evolution towards 5G” respectively.