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Single European Sky: ETSI announces its first Community Specification for European Air Traffic Management
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 6 July 2010
ETSI's newly-published European Standard for Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) has been declared a European "Community Specification" as a consequence of being listed in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) on 26 June. It is the first standard from a European Standards Organisation to be listed as a Community Specification and provides essential requirements in support of the Single European Sky Interoperability Regulation for Air Traffic Management.
European Standards Organisations and India: Expert Announced
Brussels, 1 July 2010
The Seconded European Standardization Expert in India (SESEI) officially assumed his role to support the European Standards Organisations (ESOs) and promote European Standards in India as well as to provide feedback on Indian standardization.
Charging of electric vehicles Mandate officially handed over to the European Standards Organisations
Brussels, Belgium – 29 June 2010
Green standardization is again in the spotlight with a new mandate given by the European Commission and EFTA, the European Free Trade Association, to the European Standards Organisations, CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, CENELEC, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization, and ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, regarding the charging of electric cars, scooters and bicycles.
ETSI launches new standards group for Open Radio Equipment Interface
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 11 May 2010
NGMN Alliance, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
ETSI and NGMN are pleased to announce the creation of a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) to develop an interface specification enabling interoperability between elements of base stations of cellular mobile network equipment.
New reports provide the first steps to coherence in Media Content Delivery
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 23 March 2010
A series of new Technical Reports lays the foundation for standardization of Media Content Delivery (MCD) solutions that aim to enhance the deployment and profitability of multimedia offerings, and substantially improve the consumer experience.
ETSI supports transatlantic dialogue on developing standardization
ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France – 25 February 2010
Representatives of ETSI have participated in two meetings recently that explored the potential for enhancement of existing standardization systems on either side of the Atlantic. The meetings took place on 23 and 24 February in Madrid, Spain, at the invitation of AENOR, the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification.
New technical report for Performance Enhancing Proxies for satellite multimedia networks
Sophia Antipolis, France – 2nd December 2009
Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) are widely used in satellite networks to improve the performance of the Internet protocols. PEPs are typically focussed on improving throughput for protocols such as TCP and HTTP web page retrievals.
New specifications for performance management of satellite multimedia networks
Sophia Antipolis, France – 1st December 2009
Satellite systems delivering broadband multimedia services need to be effectively managed to ensure satisfactory performance is maintained. In order to help improve compatibility of performance management functions of satellite systems and their network components a set of new specifications has been issued for ETSI Broadband Satellite Multimedia (BSM) systems. These specifications cover key issues needed in a functional framework for managing IP (Internet Protocol) services over satellite.
India's 'Electronic City' welcomes TTCN-3
Sophia Antipolis, France – 26th November 2009
Experts in test software from India and other parts of Asia have declared their strongest-ever commitment to the testing technology known as TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation Version 3). They had gathered at the second Asian TTCN-3 User Conference (T3UC) which took place from 16 to 18 November in Bangalore, home of India's 'Electronic City'.
ETSI and European Patent Office announce new collaboration. A new Memorandum of Understanding aims to strengthen the collaboration between standards organization ETSI and the European Patent Office.
Cannes, France – 24th November 2009
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the European Patent Office (EPO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding confirming their commitment to work together to better serve industry in Europe and beyond.