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ETSI launches second release of TeraFlowSDN, its open source Cloud-Native SDN Orchestrator and Controller for transport networks

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Published On :: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 09:05:55 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 2 February 2023

ETSI Open Source Group TeraFlowSDN has just announced the 2nd release of TeraFlowSDN controller, an innovative and robust SDN orchestrator and controller.

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How cybersecurity standards support the evolving EU legislative landscape

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Published On :: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 13:57:55 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 8 February 2023

On 7 February, the European Standards Organizations (ESOs), CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, joined forces with ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, to organise their 7th annual conference. The hybrid conference took place at the Brussels Renaissance Hotel and focused on “European Standardization in support of the EU cybersecurity legislation”.

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10 years of ETSI NFV - its Network Operators Council's perspective on the past, present and future

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Published On :: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:48:52 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 24 February 2023

In the light of ten years from the NFV introductory whitepaper, is the new whitepaper the ETSI ISG NFV Network Operator Council (NOC), an advisory group of ISG NFV, launched this week, 10 years after the introductory whitepaper.

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ETSI releases new report enabling more transparent security techniques

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Published On :: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 10:16:04 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 6 March 2023

The ETSI group on Encrypted Traffic Integration (ISG ETI) is pleased to announce the release of the group report GR-ETI-002 “Requirements definition and analysis”, the next step for the problems previously outlined in the report GR-ETI-001 “Problem Statement”.

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ETSI holds successful SDN NETCONF Plugtests interoperability event

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Published On :: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:00:56 GMT

Testing end-to-end service configuration of Millimetre Wave network devices in a Software Defined network using NETCONF

Sophia Antipolis, 8 March 2023

ETSI has organized the fourth millimetre Wave Transmission (mWT) Software Defined Networking (SDN) Plugtests™ event from 20 to 24 February 2023. The event took place at the ETSI headquarters, in Sophia Antipolis, France.

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New ETSI White Paper: Unlocking Digital Transformation with Autonomous Networks

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Published On :: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:29:18 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 23 March 2023

Autonomous Networks (AN) are considered one of the most important evolutions to enable Digital Transformation, offering new service opportunities and significant cost saving in network operation. It is one of the most attractive environments where to leverage Artificial Intelligence in the Network and activities around Autonomous Networks have gained momentum in Standards and ICT Industry.

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ETSI unveils 2023 Fellows at its 81th General Assembly

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Published On :: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:28:27 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 31 March 2023

ETSI is pleased to unveil its 2023 ETSI Fellows who were announced at the 81th ETSI General Assembly on 29 March. The award ceremony took place in the Fernand Leger museum, in Biot, near ETSI facilities in the South of France where art, science and technology mixed beautifully. Scott Cadzow, Hans Johansson and Robert Sarfati were unanimously nominated as ETSI Fellows for their outstanding personal contributions to the organization by the Award committee, composed of the GA Chair and Vice-Chairs, the Board Chair and the ETSI Director-General.

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ETSI Summit on Sustainability: ICT Standards for a Greener World

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Published On :: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:35:04 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 4 April 2023

Organized on 30 March as a hybrid event in ETSI facilities, France, the ETSI Summit on how ICT developments and standards can enable sustainability and have a positive impact on society, focused on the key role of the ICT industry and related standardization activities to support Green initiatives. The event brought a large and global audience of over 220 stakeholders including operators, solution providers, policy makers and standards bodies or fora working on the topic.

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Your Smart Digital Identity with ETSI: Join our webinar on 20 April

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Published On :: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:30:09 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 14 April 2023

Today we expect to be able to communicate anywhere, with everyone, at anytime, on every device and at the same time use various services that will help us save time in our daily life.

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The ETSI IoT conference 2023 focuses on Green and Digital Transformation

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Published On :: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 18:14:37 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 18 April 2023

ETSI’s annual flagship event returns in 2023. This new edition of the ETSI IoT Conference - IoT Technologies for Green and Digital Transformation - will take place on 4-5-6 July 2023 in ETSI premises, Sophia Antipolis, France.

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ETSI new White Paper on evolving NFV towards the next decade

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Published On :: Wed, 31 May 2023 12:40:15 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 30 May 2023

ETSI is pleased to publish its new White Paper on “Evolving NFV towards the next decade” written by delegates of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Network Function Virtualization (ISG NFV).

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ETSI and WinnForum Join for New Whitepaper on Spectrum Sharing for Local Private Networks

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Published On :: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:12:46 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 6 June 2023

In a joint effort to promote spectrum sharing approaches for specific use cases, ETSI and The Wireless Innovation Forum (WinnForum) have developed a joint whitepaper: Spectrum Sharing Frameworks for Temporary, Dynamic, and Flexible Spectrum Access for Local Private Networks.

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New ETSI White Paper on MEC Support for Edge Native Design: an application developer perspective

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Published On :: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:06:18 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 22 June 2023

ETSI has just released a new White Paper on “MEC Support for Edge Native Design” written by members of the ETSI Multi-access Edge Computing group (ISG MEC). This White Paper provides an overview and vision about the Edge Native approach, as a natural evolution of Cloud Native.

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ETSI Future Railway Mobile Communication System interoperability testing event starting today

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Published On :: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:51:58 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 3 July 2023

ETSI is starting today its 3rd FRMCS (Future Railway Mobile Communication System) Plugtests™ event. GSM-R is one of the main standards for railway telecommunication services. It is developed and maintained by the ETSI Technical Committee Railway Telecommunications. With the increased need for more throughput, higher capacity and flexible deployment options, FRMCS is being developed based on 3GPP Mission Critical Services.

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ETSI IoT conference: standards are key to achieving green and digital transformation

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Published On :: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:26:02 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 7 July 2023

The new edition of the ETSI IoT Conference, IoT Technologies for Green and Digital Transformation, ended on 6 July, highlighting through use cases and demonstrations how IoT standards can be real enablers in achieving the green and digital transformation. The programme is available here and the very stimulating presentations from our 54 international speakers are available here.

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ETSI and TCCA Statement to TETRA Security Algorithms Research Findings Publication on 24 July 2023

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Published On :: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 07:20:04 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 24 July 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and The Critical Communications Association (TCCA) are the proud authorities and custodians of the ETSI TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) technology standard, one of the world’s most secure and reliable radio communications standards.

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ETSI Open Source MANO announces Release FOURTEEN providing a new scalable architecture for service assurance

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Published On :: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:40:22 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 26 July 2023

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release FOURTEEN. Release FOURTEEN is a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release of ETSI OSM, providing two years of continuous support with bug fixes and security patches, and including significant improvements in many key areas.

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ETSI releases World-First Report to Mitigate AI-Generated Deepfakes

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Published On :: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:01:05 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 7 September 2023

ETSI is thrilled to announce its new Group Report on Artificial Intelligence on the use of AI for what are commonly referred to as deepfakes. The Report ETSI GR SAI 011, released by the Securing AI (ISG SAI) group, focuses on the use of AI for manipulating multimedia identity representations and illustrates the consequential risks, as well as the measures that can be taken to mitigate them.

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ETSI releases standard for IT solution providers to comply with EU regulation on electronic signatures in email messages

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Published On :: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:47:36 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 20 September 2023

ETSI has published a new standard on “Requirements for trust service providers issuing publicly trusted S/MIME certificates” (ETSI TS 119 411-6 ) helping Trust Service Providers comply with new standards for S/MIME certificates that are enforced since 1 September 2023. Secure MIME (S/MIME) certificates are used to sign, verify, encrypt, and decrypt email messages.

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New White Paper Explores ETSI TeraFlowSDN Alignment with TIP OOPT MUST Requirements

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Published On :: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:13:52 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 27 September 2023

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Open Optical & Packet Transport (OOPT) group is making significant strides in advancing network management and interoperability.

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ETSI mission-critical Plugtests event tests direct-mode communication

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Published On :: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:08:15 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 16 October 2023

The ETSI’s 8^th MCX (mission-critical) Plugtests event concluded last week at the University of Malaga. The event received support from the European Union (EU), the Critical Communications Association (TCCA), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), EUTC (European Utilities Telecom Council) and the International Union of Railways (UIC).

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ETSI’s Securing AI group becomes a Technical Committee to help ETSI to answer the EU AI Act

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Published On :: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:01:10 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 17 October 2023

As the second term of the Industry Specification Group Securing AI (ISG SAI) is scheduled to conclude in Q4 2023, and in line with ETSI's commitment to AI and SAI, the group has suggested the closure of ISG SAI, with its activity transferred to a new ETSI Technical Committee, TC SAI.

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ETSI’s Security Conference Navigates Next Generation Technologies

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Published On :: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:17:54 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 19 October 2023

ETSI’s well-known Security Conference came to a close today with nearly 250 onsite attendees from 29 countries. This year’s event focused on security research and global security standards in action, considering broader aspects such as attracting the next generation of cybersecurity standardization professionals and supporting SMEs.

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ETSI Releases TETRA Algorithms to Public Domain, maintaining the highest security for its critical communication standard

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Published On :: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:23:53 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 14 November 2023

ETSI is happy to announce that at a meeting in October of its technical committee in charge of the TETRA standard (TCCE), a full consensus was reached to make the primitives of all TETRA Air Interface cryptographic algorithms available to the public domain.

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ETSI Mission Critical testing event reports a 95% success rate

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Published On :: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:34:28 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 22 November 2023

The Report of the eight MCX Plugtests™ event that took place from 9 October to 13 October 2023 at University of Malaga (UMA) is now available. The Report shows a success rate of 95% interoperability of the 3GPP mission critical services executed tests.

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Role of Fibre Networks in Carbon Shift: ETSI's White Paper

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Published On :: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:06:00 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 30 November 2023

ETSI is pleased to announce a new White Paper developed by some of the members of its F5G Industry Specification Group, entitled “All-optical network facilitates the Carbon Shift”, highlighting the role of fibre networks as a key ICT enabler to meet the UN sustainability goals.

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3GPP Commits to Develop 6G Specifications

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Published On :: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 09:39:04 GMT

As the project celebrates the 25th anniversary of the signing of the 3GPP Project Agreement, the 3GPP Organizational Partners have today issued the following joint press release.

Sophia Antipolis, 4 December 2023

With its work on 3G, 4G and 5G specifications used by billions of communications services consumers globally, 3GPP stands ready to create the 6G future.

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ETSI's Committee on Securing AI Decides on New Work

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Published On :: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:55:23 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 7 December 2023

In order to have the capability to directly contribute to standardization requests, which may include, but not limited to, the future AI Act, Cybersecurity Resilience Act and NIS2, it was decided to transfer the SAI Industry Specification Group into a Technical Committee.

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ETSI Protection Profile for securing smartphones gains world-first certification from French Cybersecurity Agency

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Published On :: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:05:05 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 12 January 2024

In a significant step highlighting the critical importance of security for mobile device users, the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) has certified ETSI's Consumer Mobile Device Protection Profile under the Common Criteria global certification framework. This represents the first certification by a national administration of a comprehensive suite of specifications for assessing the security of smartphones.

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ETSI Releases Ground-breaking Technical Report to mitigate technology-enabled Coercive Control

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Published On :: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:02:36 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 31 January 2024

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has published a significant new technical report, "ETSI TR 103 936 V1.1.1 (2024-01): Cyber Security; Implementing Design Practices to Mitigate Consumer IoT-Enabled Coercive Control". This pioneering document addresses the increasingly important issue of safeguarding individuals from coercive control through the misuse of consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Coercive control encompasses a range of abusive acts such as security breaches, privacy invasions, harassment, physical assault, and other patterns of behaviour that can limit autonomy or cause emotional harm to potential targets.

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Navigating through Challenges and Opportunities of Cybersecurity Standardization

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Published On :: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:08:33 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 8 March 2024

On 5 March, the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, joined forces with ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, to organize their 8th Cybersecurity Standardization Conference.

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ETSI releases its two first reports on THz communication systems

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Published On :: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:58:10 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 05 April 2024

ETSI is pleased to announce the release of the first two Group Reports developed by its Terahertz Industry Specification Group (ISG THz). They are addressing key elements in this initial phase of the pre-standardization works for THz communications: the use-cases and the spectrum. The role of ETSI ISG THz is to develop an environment where various actors from the academia, research centres, industry can share, in a consensus-driven way, their pre-standardization efforts on THz technology resulting from various collaborative research projects and global initiatives, paving the way towards future standardization. Complementing the work of other ETSI Technical Bodies and other SDOs, the group concentrates on establishing the technical foundation for the development and standardization of THz communications.

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Aiming high: ETSI Conference on Non-Terrestrial Networks underlines critical role of NTN in realizing tomorrow’s global 6G vision

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Published On :: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:12:24 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 15 April 2024

This year’s first ETSI Conference on Non-Terrestrial Networks has stressed the importance of technical standardization in delivering a fully connected planet via NTN, a key element of tomorrow’s global 6G networks.

Held from 3-4 April 2024 at ETSI’s Sophia Antipolis headquarters, the event was co-organized with the European Space Agency (ESA), the 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA) and the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU).

Titled ‘Non-Terrestrial Networks, a Native Component of 6G’, the 2-day conference attracted over 200 participants from 25 countries, including experts in standardization and research as well as industrial representation from the mobile, satellite and wider space industries. Delegates shared perspectives on NTN use cases, candidate technology solutions, current research status and standardization roadmaps. Day one sessions focused on the opportunities and challenges of integrating terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks within tomorrow’s global communications landscape. The second day afforded a deep dive into numerous cutting-edge NTN and 6G research & development initiatives in Europe and around the world.

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Collaboration with Utrecht University Summer School

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Published On :: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 08:59:16 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 11 June 2024

ETSI, the Standards People, are putting high emphasis on enhancing education to help prepare the next generation of standards professionals master tech standardization.

The European standardization organization provides a comprehensive set of high-quality educational materials on ICT standardization aimed at universities, NSOs and member organizations for training purposes. This comprises a textbook on ‘Understanding ICT Standardization’ which is complemented by a modular slide set allowing components to be used in a range of engineering, business, and law courses.

ETSI is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Utrecht University Summer School on ‘Global Power and Technology’ covering ‘Competition, Innovation & Technological Advancement through Standardization in the EU’, taking place on 15-19 July 2024 in the Netherlands.

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ETSI SDG OSL makes publicly available its 2024Q2 Release

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Published On :: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:34:59 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 29 July 2024

We are thrilled to announce our latest official release of OpenSlice, proudly brought to you by ETSI Software Development Group OpenSlice (SDG OSL). This marks our first release under the ETSI umbrella, reflecting our commitment to excellence and innovation in the field of open-source Operations Support System (OSS) solutions.

We want to keep the community’s interest on par with our highest passion and expectation to revolutionize the way Network as a Service (NaaS) is delivered, and our latest release is a testament to our dedication! With this new release, we introduce significant changes aimed at enhancing user engagement and addressing the contemporary needs of both research and industry sectors on the matter.

"The latest OpenSlice 2024Q2 version is a manifest to our commitment to pave the way for modern telco-cloud requirements, seamless integration and reference implementations for 6G" - Christos Tranoris, Senior Research at UPATRAS and Chair of ETSI SDG OSL.

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ETSI and 5GAA driving interoperability as C-V2X tests hit a 94% success rate

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Published On :: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:32:49 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 30 September 2024

Direct communications between vehicles, pedestrians and infrastructure based on 3GPP and ETSI TC ITS standards have been tested during the 4th C-V2X Plugtests™ interoperability event in Malaga, Spain, hosted by DEKRA (September 10- 13, 2024).

In partnership with 5GAA, this Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) and ITS technologies event attracted the participation of 24 companies and 82 experts – both onsite and via remote connections – with 94% of the planned tests, based on over 60 test scenarios, successfully completed.

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ETSI completes F5G Advanced Release 3 enabling 10Gbits to everybody

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Published On :: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:38:31 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 8 October 2024

ETSI announces the completion of its Release 3 specifications on Fifth Generation Advanced Fixed Network (F5G-A). Building on the achievements of the Release 1 and Release 2, the ETSI ISG F5G has specified a series of new features and capabilities, further elevating fixed fiber networks to a new level:

Specification of F5G Advanced
ETSI ISG F5G unveiled the "F5G Advanced Generation Definition", which not only further enhances existing three foundational features of F5G-Enhanced Fixed Broadband (eFBB), Full Fiber Connectivity (FFC), and Guaranteed Reliable Experience (GRE), but also introduces three new key features: Real-time Resilient Link (RRL), Optical Sensing and Visualization (OSV), and Green Agile Optical network (GAO).

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ETSI Security Conference 2024

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Published On :: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:38:09 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 18 October 2024

One of the event highlights of the year - the ETSI Security Conference – has closed its doors at the end of expert discussions on a range of cybersecurity standardization topics.

195 onsite attendees enjoyed presentations across multiple sessions, over three and a half days, as well as networking opportunities at the breaks - extending into the evening - during the ETSI hosted social events.

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ETSI Releases New Guidelines to Enhance Cyber-security for Consumer IoT Devices

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Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:43:56 GMT

Sophia Antipolis, 31 October 2024

Protect Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of Data as Smart Devices Proliferate.

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