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Event type: None
Event Technology: 5G, Cybersecurity, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), Quantum-Safe Cryptography (QSC)

ETSI’s annual flagship event on Cyber Security, the ETSI Security Conference, took place face-to-face from 16 to 19 October 2023, in ETSI, Sophia Antipolis, France and gathered more than 200 people.

This year the event focused on Security Research and Global Security Standards in action The event also considered wider aspects such as Attracting the next generation of Cyber Security standardization professionals and supporting SMEs.

Meet & Network with the Community

This exclusive face-to-face event provided an exceptional opportunity for the security community to come together to exchange with experts, network with peers, and share facts and opinions around the subject of cybersecurity standardization. 

Posted by Claire Gauthier 4060 Hits
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Event type: Interoperability Events
Event Technology: Open Source MANO

ETSI's Centre for Testing and Interoperability and the TeraFlowSDN Community are organizing the TFS#3 Hackfest on 16-17 October 2023 and the Ecosystem Day on 18 October 2023. The events will be hosted by CTTC in their premises in Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain, and co-located with the TFS#3 Plenary.

Scope

This Hackfest will be dedicated to the use of P4 in TeraFlowSDN, starting with an overview, followed by a gradual walkthrough of an end-to-end P4 based demo, then a more interactive session. Sessions will be led by key members of the TeraFlowSDN community. Participants will be able to build their own hands on experience of P4 forwarding with TeraFlowSDN: deployment, configuration, operation, monitoring, update, etc...

Posted by Claire Gauthier 16856 Hits
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Event type: Interoperability Events
Event Technology: Public safety & emergency communications, Testing languages, TETRA

ETSI, with the support of the European Commission (EC), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the Critical Communications Association (TCCA), the European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) and the Union Internationale des Chemins de fer (UIC), is organizing the eighth MCX PlugtestsTM. This Plugtests will be hosted by the University of Malaga, Spain, from 9 to 13 October 2023. 

What are the objectives and scope of the 8th MCX Plugtests event?

The concept of Mission Critical Services such as “Mission Critical Push To Talk" (MCPTT), “Mission Critical Data" (MCData) and “Mission Critical Video" (MCVideo) started with 3GPP Release-13 and is ongoing in current Releases. The Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) is based on these Mission Critical Features.

The goal of this MCX Plugtests event is to validate the interoperability of a variety of implementations using different scenarios based on 3GPP Mission Critical Services. The MCX Plugtests event will also test, flexible group communications, MCData IP Connectivity and complex emergency call handling. The MCX Plugtests event will, besides mission critical features which have been tested in past events over 4G network, be extended to test Mission Critical Services over 5G test network. Specific focus will be put on inter-system communications including Off-Network, IWF and Inter-MCX scenarios. The tests are based on 3GPP, ETSI and IETF standards and are designed for:

MCS Application Servers (MCPTT, MCDATA, MCVIDEO) MCS Clients (MCPTT, MCDATA, MCVIDEO) FRMCS Applications using MCX Framework eMBMS Components IMS / SIP Cores Consoles and Control Rooms connected to MCX servers MCS Test Equipments RAN equipment (4G and 5G) Packet cores (4G and 5G) UEs (User Equipment), Cab Radios, embedded equipment, Rugged Handheld Phones TETRA and P25 systems with IWF

This event will feature tests with 4G and 5G radio equipment (gNBs, eNBs, 5GCs, EPCs, UEs) with Unicast and Multicast support and will also allow Over-The-Top (OTT) testing of Mission Critical Servers and Clients as well as included tests of railways-oriented capabilities. Test Equipment vendors will have the possibility to test as well in the Plugtests.

What are the advantages of attending the 8th MCX Plugtests event?

To assess the level of interoperability of your implementations To validate your understanding of the standards To test with (many) other real implementations and demonstrate end-to-end interoperability To debug your implementation: early bug fixing, saving time and costs To promote the technology and the ecosystem

Who may participate?

Vendors which develop and produce above-mentioned equipment Observers, which can be government organizations, mobile network operators, public safety operators, users, agencies or regulators.

New Vendors and Observers must sign the Rules of Engagement and NDA of the MCX Plugtests Programme to participate. 

The Plugtests Observer Program

Observers are welcome to help define the scope (i.e. functionality to be tested) for this event and to evaluate the tests statistics in the TRT (Test Reporting Tool).

In parallel to the testing, we are planning to organise an observer round table discussion, observer program and interoperability demos. The focus of the observer round table discussion and program is to examine and discuss the progress of deployment and the challenges in testing of the Mission Critical Services for Public Safety and Public Transport. The observer round table discussion and program will be held onsite during the event.

The interoperability demos will be demonstrated by the interested vendors showing interoperability of their equipment by showcasing the MCX Plugtests test cases and observer scenario use cases.

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Event Technology: Internet of Things (IoT)

ETSI’s annual flagship event returned in 2023. The 2023 edition of the ETSI IoT Conference - IoT Technologies for Green and Digital Transformation - took place on 4-5-6 July 2023 in ETSI premises, Sophia Antipolis, France and online.

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Event type: Interoperability Events
Event Technology: Public safety & emergency communications, Testing languages

ETSI organised, with the support of the European Commission (EC), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the Critical Communications Association (TCCA) and the Union Internationale des Chemins de fer (UIC), the 3rd FRMCS (Future Railway Mobile Communication System) Plugtests event which was hosted by UIC in Paris, FR from 3 to 7 July 2023. 

Important: ETSI monitors the situation of the Coronavirus pandemic and will ensure that all necessary measures are taken in accordance with the instructions of the local government authorities. We recommend flexible booking of hotel / flights accordingly.

GSM-R is the current standard for the railway telecommunication services developed and maintained by ETSI TC RT. With the increased need for more throughout, higher capacity and flexible deployment options, FRMCS is being developed based on 3GPP Mission Critical Services.

What were the objectives and scope of the 3rd FRMCS Plugtests event?

Interoperability and Mission Critical services harmonisation are critical challenges for the successful deployment and operation of Mobile Broadband based communication Systems for various sectors, including Railways.

The concept of Mission Critical Services such as “Mission Critical Push To Talk" (MCPTT), “Mission Critical Data" (MCData) and “Mission Critical Video" (MCVideo) started with 3GPP Release-13 and is ongoing in current Releases. The Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) is based on these Mission Critical Features.

The goal of the FRMCS Plugtests event was to validate the interoperability of a variety of implementations using different test scenarios based on the 3GPP Mission Critical Services framework with focus on the rail specific features. The FRMCS Plugtests event tested railways-oriented capabilities defined in 3GPP. This FRMCS Plugtests event was part of the MCX Plugtests programme.

The tests were based on 3GPP, ETSI and IETF standards, and were designed for the following equipment:

FRMCS capable MCX Application Servers (MCPTT, MCDATA, MCVIDEO) FRMCS capable MCX Clients (MCPTT, MCDATA, MCVIDEO) UEs and Cab Radios eMBMS Components IMS / SIP Cores Consoles and Control Rooms Test Equipments RAM Equipment (5G) Packet cores (5G)

The purpose and scope of the FRMCS Plugtests event were to test independently and jointly all components of the Mobile communication System for Railways. Railway-related test cases are available in ETSI TS 103 564. Additional railway-oriented test cases were also be developed for this Plugtests.

Who could participate?

Vendors which develop and produce above mentioned equipment. All vendors must actively participate in the testing railway features. Products have to support Rail features and test cases. Observers, which can be government organisations, mobile network operators, railways operators, users, agencies or regulators. Observers are welcome to help define the scope (i.e.functionality to be tested) for this event and to evaluate the tests statistics in the TRT (Test Reporting Tool).  New Vendors and Observers have to sign the Rules of Engagement and NDA of the MCX Plugtests Programme to participate. 

What were the advantages of attending the FRMCS Plugtests event?

To assess the level of interoperability of your implementations To validate your understanding of the standards To test with (many) other real implementations and demonstrate end-to-end interoperability To debug your implementation: early bug fixing, saving time and costs To promote the technology and the ecosystem

The Plugtests observer program

The focus of the observer program was to examine and discuss the progress of deployment and the challenges of FRMCS. The observer program was held onsite and provided a platform to the various stake holders in railways to discuss the progress of FRMCS. 

The observer program also included interoperability demos from interested vendors, which could show how their solutions meet the FRMCS Plugtests test cases and observer scenario use cases.

PLUGTESTS events are organized by ETSI and are co-funded by the European Commission (EC) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

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Event type: Webinars
Event Technology: Zero touch network & Service Management (ZSM)

2:00 pm CEST - on ETSI BRIGHTTALK CHANNEL

 

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View all past and upcoming ETSI webinars on our webinar page.

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Event Technology: Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC)

ETSI ISG MEC is pleased to host the first of a series of Multi-access Edge Computing live panels. Hybrid event taking place on 26 June 2023 in the ETSI premises and online, this live panel will explore the drone business from a MEC perspective with a variety of speakers coming from this vertical market. 

The goal is to share insights from experts on regulation, technology and business, and understand how the various drones use cases (e.g. private sky/network and public U-spaces) can benefit from computing resources at the edge and information exposed.
After the intervention of the various speakers, a final panel discussion will include a Q&A interactive session with both F2F and remote participants.

Speakers will participate in a final panel discussion which will include a Q&A interactive session with both face to face and remote participants.

Read the related Blog "MEC for Drones Panel: Unlocking 5G Edge Value for the Drone Industry", published on 10 August.

More information is available here.

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Event type: Interoperability Events
Event Technology: Open Source MANO

ETSI's Centre for Testing and Interoperability and the TeraFlowSDN Community are organizing the second TFS Hackfest on 20-21 June 2023. The event will be held face-to-face during the IEEE NetSoft Conference in Madrid, Spain.

Participation in ETSI Hackfests is free and open to all upon Registration. You are most welcome to register to NetSoft2023 as well, though it is not mandatory.

Scope

This edition will feature TeraFlow Release 2, allowing participants to get hands-on experience with TeraFlowSDN. 

The event will take the form of a competition with the objective of integrating ETSI TeraFlowSDN Controller Release 2 with the ContainerLab environment.
ContainerLab is an environment that enables deploying versatile lab network topologies where each node can run a containerized Network Operating System, allowing to establish and test connectivity services traversing the network devices.
Participants will be grouped in teams and each team will collaborate to complete the following list of challenges (tentative):

Deploy a ContainerLab environment together with ETSI TeraFlowSDN controller Onboard the network devices emulated with ContainerLab in TeraFlowSDN Establish packet connectivity services through ContainerLab network devices Monitor the packet traffic on ContainerLab devices, e.g., through gNMI, and plot the data in TFS's L3 Monitoring Grafana dashboard

Each team is expected to focus on a specific ContainerLab network device kind, e.g., IPInfusion OcNOS, Nokia SR Linux, SONiC, etc. Some ETSI TFS experts will be around to help you and resolve your questions during the hacking sessions.
NOTE: It is under study the possibility of involving P4 in the challenge through SONiC (To Be Decided).

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Event type: Interoperability Events
Event Technology: Open Source MANO

ETSI's Centre for Testing and Interoperability and the OpenSourceMANO community are organizing the OSM#15 Hackfest on 12-16 June 2023. The event will be hosted by CTTC and co-located with the OSM#15 Plenary Meeting.

Participation in ETSI Hackfests is free and open to all upon registration.

Scope

This event is a development oriented Hackfest in the form of several self-contained challenges such as bug fixes, developing small features, writing unit tests, or automating end-to-end tests exercising some use case. Challenges will be mentored by key members of the OSM community.

The Hackfest will start on Monday 12 June and finish on Friday 16 June. On Monday, some theory sessions will be provided, followed by a description of the different challenges to be completed through the week. Participants will select a challenge to work on individually or by pairs.

During the week, participants will code autonomously (individually or by pairs) to solve their challenges. Daily sessions will be scheduled with the mentors, so that participants can ask questions and solve blocking points.

On Friday, participants will share their achievements and lessons learn with the OSM community.

All active participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. Certificates of Excellence will be awarded to all those participants that complete their challenge.

This event will be an opportunity for participants to:

Understanding the role of NFV Orchestration and OSM Understanding OSM architecture and relationship with ETSI NFV Specifications Getting familiar with OSM installation Understanding OSM development workflow, practices and tools: git, tox, gerrit, jenkins.. Understanding the way of working in an open source project: contributing code, code reviews, automated testing... Developing a first-hand experience with code development in OSM Getting to meet and interact with key OSM community members.