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Event Technology: Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV)

ETSI is proud to bring you an interactive virtual event on the topic of NFV Evolution, produced in partnership with TelecomTV.

Join this Special Report on NFV Evolution, in virtual format from the comfort of your home or office, broadcasting live on 21 April 2021, from 3 to 5pm CEST.

Established in 2013, the ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), has generated over 100 publications and has positioned itself as the standard for deploying and managing virtualised network functions, that have become essential for implementing 5G networks.

ETSI’s innovative NFV roadmap further evolved with the recent advances in network automation, edge-computing and cloud-native software architectures, creating new perspectives in the industry for NFV technology. As ETSI’s ISG is about to shape its 5th specification release, this Special Report on NFV Evolution provides you with an opportunity to engage with industry stakeholders and obtain insights into their implementation experience on ETSI NFV standards. The technical presentations and interactive panel discussions will give you an understanding of how emerging use cases and technology advances are likely to impact the evolution of NFV standardization.

The event programme features original presentations selected from the responses received to an open call, addressing deployment experience, new use cases and technical requirements. They confirm the industry objective of making networks increasingly autonomous and extending network resources to the edge. The programme will also feature presentations from or related-to four open source communities (Anuket, CNCF, ONAP and OSM) involved in the NFV landscape.

From 19 April, 48 hours in advance of the live event, on-demand videos of these technical presentations will be available online; you are invited to leave comments and raise questions on these.

The interactive live programme will take place on 21 April (3-5pm CEST) and feature two panel discussions where distinguished experts will follow-up on the presentations, share their viewpoints and engage with you.

Event type: Webinars

3:00 pm CEST (1:00 pm UTC) to 4:45 pm CEST - on ETSI BRIGHTTALK CHANNEL

ETSI ZSM ISG PoC#2 aims to demonstrate the capability to automatically scale out a network slice instance deployed across multiple administrative domains. This is achieved using the 5G assets of 5G-VINNI. 5G-VINNI is a large-scale, end-to-end 5G facility composed of several interworking sites, each corresponding to a different EU node and defining a single administrative domain. The management and orchestration capabilities of individual 5G-VINNI facility sites, and the enablers allowing for the interworking across them, are aligned with ZSM architectural design principles.

This webinar showcases the ZSM PoC#2, with a demo applied over a network slice deployed across two 5G-VINNI facility sites: Madrid (Spain) and Patras (Greece). This PoC demo will show how OSM and Openslice stacks collaboratively work to provide automation means for a zero-touch scaling operation over this network slice.

Presented by: Jose Ordonez-Lucena, Telefonica I+D, Christos Tranoris, University of Patras, Greece, Borja Nogales, UC3M

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Event type: Interoperability Events

Event Technology: Internet of Things (IoT)

ETSI and the University of Málaga are pleased to invite you to a virtual oneM2M Hackathon from 12 March to 9 April 2021.

This activity is supported by oneM2M and the InDiCo Project, a project funded by the European Union and coordinated by ETSI.

Event type: Interoperability Events

The current eCall regulation provides requirement for Circuit switched based Mobile Networks, supported by GSM and UMTS. The LTE coverage and the deployment of 5G networks grows rapidly and most of the mobile devices are supporting LTE. CEN has developed a technical specification, CEN TS 17184:2018, to provide eCall services via packet switched mobile network using IMS (LTE and beyond).

From 2 to 6 November 2020, ETSI Centre for Interoperability held a Next Generation eCall Plugtests interoperability testing event, remotely hosted by SINTESIO. The European Commission looks forward to updating the current eCall regulation to include the eCall over IMS procedures thus ensuring compliancy with Packet Switched only mobile networks.

In order to inform the eCall community about the eCall evolution, ETSI organised, on Wednesday 10 March 2021, from 13:30 to 17:00 CET, a Programme on the state of the art of the eCall over IMs technology and deployment challenges.

The Programme presented the following topics:

This Programme was open to all.

Event Technology: 5G

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), ETSI and IEEE are organizing a Joint SDOs Brainstorming Workshop on Testbeds Federations for 5G & Beyond: Interoperability, Standardization, Reference Model & APIs.
This workshop will take place virtually on 15 and 16 March 2021 from 14h00-17h30 CET each day.The workshop will be held in English only.

There is an urgent need to build an Ecosystem for enabling Sustainable Testbeds Development, Evolutions, and Federations based on the newly required Standards for Testbeds Federations (including the required Applications Programming Interfaces for Testbeds Federations) and Interoperability.

ITU-T, ETSI and IEEE are major SDOs working on the topic of Testbeds for 5G and Beyond. Part of the Objectives of this Workshop is to help identify and communicate the roles of the various stakeholders, moving forward. The Workshop also seeks to engage the various Stakeholders to discuss the roles the various Stakeholders can play in the desired Ecosystem to be built by the SDOs

Participation in the workshop is open to all and free of charge. 
For Full Description of the Workshop, Problem Statement, Objectives, Target Audience​, and Link to Registration, please go to www.itu.int/go/BTF4-5G

Event type: Conferences & Summits

Event Technology: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), Quantum-Safe Cryptography (QSC)

ETSI was pleased to invite you for a two-day virtual technical event focusing on Quantum Safe Cryptography.
The event, organized in partnership with the Insitute for Quantum Computing (IQC), took place on 18 and 19 February 2021 from 2 – 5.30 pm utc+1.

Event type: Webinars

Event Technology: Open Source MANO

3:00 pm CET (2:00 pm UTC) to 4:30 pm CET - on ETSI BRIGHTTALK CHANNEL

This webinar offers an overview of the recently announced Open Source MANO Release NINE, and some of its latest features:

OSM Release NINE completes the native adoption of ETSI NFV standardized YANG Data Models (ETSI NFV-SOL006), ensuring a consistent standardized and interoperable way to describe network functions and services, allowing them to be deployed in any Telco Cloud and orchestrated by any SOL006 compliant orchestrator.

This release also improves the use of VNF Operations, providing a more efficient and scalable way to manage network functions in Kubernetes, and allowing to distribute the agents managing VNF/CNF operations (Juju Proxy Charms) across different types of clouds; bringing higher resiliency to highly distributed edge deployments.

Finally, from the management perspective, Release NINE offers a seamless integration with Grafana (the world’s most popular technology used to compose observability dashboards), that now supports Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), in order to provide granular access to dashboards for different users, based on their security profiles.

Presented by: Francisco-Javier Ramon, Telefonica, Alejandro Garcia, Whitestack, David Garcia, Canonical, Subhankar Pal, Altran

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Event type: Webinars

Event Technology: Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC)

3:00 pm CET (2:00 pm UTC) to 4:15 pm CET - on ETSI BRIGHTTALK CHANNEL

This webinar will provide an introduction into ETSI MEC and specifically the MEC Deployment and ECOsystem DEvelopment Working Group (DECODE). Before getting into the details of the MEC Sandbox, we will highlight MEC resources available to developers, including the MEC OpenAPI specifications on ETSI Forge, the MEC Developer Wiki, and information on MEC Hackathons. We will introduce the MEC Sandbox and do a live demonstration on how to get started. This will include showing developers where to find the MEC Sandbox, how to sign-in, configuring the Sandbox and selecting a scenario. Finally, we demonstrate how to interact with the MEC Service APIs (Location, Radio Network Info, and WLAN Access Info) via a few hands-on examples.

Presented by: Walter Featherstone – MEC DECODE Chair and Michel Roy – Sandbox Architect

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