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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 type: Interoperability Events

Event Technology: Open Source MANO

ETSI's Centre for Testing and Interoperability and the OSM community organised the OSM Mid-Release 10 Hackfest from 08 to 12 March 2021. The event was run remotely, allowing participants to join the hands-on sessions from home.

IMPORTANT: Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and associated travel / hosting restrictions, the OSM MR#10 Hackfest was run remotely (as it was done for the OSM#10 Hackfest). 

The OSM-MR#10 Hackfest, the very first one featuring OSM Release NINE, consisted on a series of sessions allowing participants to exchange and learn about:

In addition, participants were able to hear from key players in the OSM Ecosystem, who shared how OSM is helping them to achieve their goals and latest deployments during the OSM-MR#10 Ecosystem Day.

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: Interoperability Events

Event Technology: Public safety & emergency communications

ETSI, in cooperation with the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) and NENA: The 9-1-1 Association, is organizing the fourth NG112 Emergency Communications Plugtests™ event to be held remotely with the support of ETSI SC EMTEL. This event will take place from 22 February to 5 March 2021.

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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Event type: Webinars

9:00 am CET (8:00 am UTC) to 10:30 am CET - on ETSI BRIGHTTALK CHANNEL

This is in alignment to our White Paper #38, available at https://www.etsi.org/images/files/ETSIWhitePapers/etsi_WP38_RRS.pdf

Speakers will be Dr. Markus Mueck, Intel Germany; Prof. Seungwon Choi, Hanyang University, Korea; Prof. Vladimir Ivanov, State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Russia.

ETSI has recently generalized its Mobile Device Reconfiguration Architecture and related Interfaces European Norms such that Radio Equipment in general is covered. This Webinar provides an overview of i) the target Use Cases and related system requirements, ii) the architectural approach and iii) interfaces including the generalized Multi-User Interface (gMURI), the generalized Reconfigurable Radio Frequency Interface (gRRFI), the generalized Unified Radio Application Interface (gURAI) and the generalized Radio Programming Interface (gRPI). Finally, this webinar will illustrate how the technology can possibly support Article 3(3)(i) and Article 4 of the Radio Equipment Directive (RED) related to the Combination of Software & Hardware.

Presented by: Dr. Markus Mueck, Prof. Seungwon Choi, Prof. Vladimir Ivanov

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