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ETSI increases membership to 759
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 16 April 2012
At its 59th General Assembly, held in Cannes on 20 - 21 March 2012, ETSI formally accepted the application of 29 new members. In total the standards organisation now counts 759 Members, from a total of 62 countries. Seven of these 32 new members are Small or Medium-sized Enterprises (SME), with the result that 24% of ETSI's members are SMEs. A further 11% of members are universities or public research bodies.
Decision on new SIM card size (4FF) postponed
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 30 March 2012
At its 54th meeting held on 29-30 March 2012 at Sophia Antipolis, France, ETSI's Smart Card Platform Technical Committee (TC SCP) decided to postpone any decision on the fourth form factor (4FF) for the UICC or SIM card.
European standards organisations make progress towards Smart Grid standards and reference architecture
Brussels – 9 March 2012
Preparing the electricity networks of the future – CEN, CENELEC and ETSI have presented two interim reports to the European Commission.
ETSI ITS workshop has global reach
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 27 February 2012
Smart, safe, sustainable traffic using Cooperative ITS was the focus of ETSI's fourth workshop on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), held from 7 to 9 February 2012 in Doha, Qatar.
ETSI completes foundation standards package for M2M services
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 20 February 2012
ETSI has published the first release of its Machine to Machine (M2M) service standards, providing a standardized platform to manage the complexity of multiple M2M services and technologies.
ETSI Security Workshop considers security in the Cloud
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 31 January 2012
Security in the Cloud and in machine to machine communications were some of the key issues debated at the ETSI Security Workshop, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, on the 18th and 19th of January 2012. This seventh edition of the workshop gathered security standardization experts from partner standards bodies, consortia, industry and academia worldwide. With over 150 registered delegates, the ETSI Security Workshop continues its success and has become a fixture in ETSI's calendar of workshops.
Big turnout for interoperability testing of PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 30 January 2012
38 companies from around the world took part in a recent interoperability testing campaign for PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures, organized by the ETSI Plugtests™ service. The interoperability event ran from 24th of November to 19th of December 2011, with participants connecting to each other and to the ETSI Plugtests portal, which provided information exchange, test execution, test evaluation and report generation services.
ETSI Approves Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) for Grid Technologies
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 18 January 2012
ETSI has recently published two specifications for Smart Grid that will help drive the development and deployment of open, interoperable smart grid technologies internationally.
Major Standards Development Organizations Agree on a Global Initiative for M2M Standardization
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 17 January 2012
Major Standards Development Organizations (the "SDOs"*) -- ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TIA, TTA, and TTC -- recognize that M2M services often rely upon communications networks for connectivity between the myriad of devices in the field and the M2M application servers, and have identified the need for a common cost-efficient, easily and widely available M2M Service Layer, which can be readily embedded within various hardware and software. As a result, the SDOs, meeting over the course of the past several months, have also identified the need for a cooperative M2M community standards activity, and have agreed to jointly address the challenge of common standardized solutions. The SDOs have taken initial steps to form a global initiative for M2M Standardization.
Successful ITS Interoperability Testing: A New Step Towards The Deployment Of Cooperative Mobility Systems
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 7 December 2011
14 vendors demonstrated the interoperability of their ETSI standards-based ITS Cooperative Mobility Systems at the first joint ETSI and ERTICO ITS PlugtestsTM event from 14th to 18th of November 2011, at the High Tech Automotive Campus of Helmond, in the Netherlands.