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Sophia Antipolis, France, 27 November 2025

Today, the European Patent Office and ETSI held their first high-level meeting at the EPO’s headquarters in Munich, marking a new chapter in a partnership that started two decades ago. During the meeting, EPO VP for Legal and International Affairs Christoph Ernst and ETSI Director-General Jan Ellsberger signed a renewed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a 3-year Workplan.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 24 November 2025

ETSI is pleased to publish the Report of the interoperability event on the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS), held from 27 to 31 October 2025.

Organised by ETSI with the support of the European Union, EFTA, TCCA-Critical Communications and UIC - International union of railways, these Plugtests™ play a key role in accelerating the global adoption of future railway communications. They enable stakeholders across the value chain to test their solutions against each other, ensuring interoperability when deploying FRMCS over 5G networks and guaranteeing interworking with the legacy GSM-R system.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 18 November 2025

Building the Foundation for Autonomous 6G Transport Networks, ETSI is proud to announce the launch of TeraFlowSDN Release 6. With a large set of new features across automation, observability, optical integration, and security, this release establishes TeraFlowSDN as a programmable and intelligent SDN controller that bridges IP and optical domains with full lifecycle orchestration.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 3 November 2025

ETSI’s Director-General, Mr. Jan Ellsberger, and Chief Policy Officer, Mr. Martin Chatel are in the Republic of Korea this week to engage with government representatives, trade associations, and standardisation partners.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 10 October 2025

If you missed the annual ETSI Security Conference, held from 6 to 9 October in the beautiful surroundings of ETSI headquarters on the French Riviera, you can still benefit from the presentations on the website.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 6 October 2025

Following the mission to Delhi in October 2024 by ETSI’s Director General, Mr. Jan Ellsberger, an ETSI Delegation is in India this week to engage with institutional and private partners and to take part in the India Mobile Congress 2025 in the context of the InDiCo-Global project.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 1 October 2025

On 1 October 2025, ETSI’s Director-General, Mr. Jan Ellsberger, and Chief Policy Officer, Mr. Martin Chatel, were honoured to meet with European Commission Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Ms. Henna Virkkunen.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 24 September 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Communications Office (ECO) to enhance cooperation on ICT standards and regulations.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 19 September 2025

During the ITEA Award of Excellence ceremony this week, the IML4E (Industrial Machine Learning for Enterprises) project was honoured with the ITEA Award of Excellence for Standardisation. ITEA is the Eureka RD&I Cluster on software innovation. Among the projects it hosts, IML4E simplifies and scales the adoption of AI & MLOps in European industry through tools, methodologies, and an open, cloud-agnostic platform.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 09 September 2025

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release EIGHTEEN, a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release of OSM, meeting the established cadence of two releases per year and incorporating the latest innovations produced by the OSM Community.

OSM Release EIGHTEEN builds upon the architectural evolution of previous releases, further consolidating OSM as a cloud-native orchestrator for infrastructure, platforms, and services. This release introduces significant advancements in declarative operations, cluster management, and modular installation, reinforcing OSM’s position as a leading open-source orchestration solution.