News and Press Releases

Sophia Antipolis, France, 11 July 2025

Standardisation is indispensable for ensuring the seamless integration of quantum technologies into existing and future infrastructures. The European Commission highlighted the strategic importance of standardisation in the Quantum Europe Strategy published on 2 July, acknowledging ETSI’s contributions on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). The strategy states that “A comprehensive QKD testing and evaluation facility is also being deployed […]. This facility enables rigorous characterisation, security testing, and early support for standardisation, closely aligned with the activities of ETSI Quantum Key Distribution”.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 2 July 2025

ETSI has published the official report from the NGSI‑LD Plugtests™ event, held from 24 to 28 February 2025 at its headquarters in Sophia Antipolis. The event achieved an 88 % interoperability success rate, highlighting the maturity and alignment of NGSI‑LD implementations with ETSI standards, including ETSI GS CIM 009.

Sophia Antipolis, 12 June 2025

Following the announce of the International Digital Strategy on 5 June, ETSI published a response to the European Commission.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 12 June 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce that its work in response to a new standardization request from the European Commission (EC) under the Cyber Resilience Act is well underway. ETSI’s work programme is being developed to facilitate the implementation of harmonized European cybersecurity standards for digital products across the EU market and beyond.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 6 June 2025

With nearly 50% growth in attendance and twice as many submissions to the call for presentations over the past two years, the ETSI and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) Quantum Safe Cryptography Conference joint event was a tremendous success.

Sophia Antipolis, 2 June 2025

ETSI is proud to announce the launch of TeraFlowSDN Release 5, bringing a host of new features to enhance network orchestration and automation capabilities.

Sophia Antipolis, 22 May 2025

Following the presentation of the Single Market Strategy on 21 May, ETSI published a statement.

Sophia Antipolis, 20 May 2025

Last week, the ETSI Speech Transmission Quality (STQ) conference opened with a strong message: technology must serve all of society - not just the most profitable users. This international event brought together leading voices to examine the critical intersection of technology, accessibility, and user experience.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 14 May 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the establishment of a new Software Development Group OpenOP (SDG OOP) dedicated to the development of an open-source Operator Platform allowing for 6G testbed federation, along with standardized capability exposure APIs.

Sophia Antipolis, 25 April 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the release of two new Group Reports on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). ETSI GR RIS 004 provides implementation and practical insights concerning RIS and ETSI GR RIS 005 studies RIS‑integrated MIMO systems, especially focused on diversity and multiplexing schemes.