News and Press Releases

ETSI announces the appointment of Martin Chatel as Chief Policy Officer

Sophia Antipolis, France - 10 February 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Chatel as Chief Policy Officer, who will lead the Policy Affairs Department at ETSI. Martin Chatel will join ETSI on 10 February 2025 and will be based in Brussels. As Chief Policy Officer, Martin Chatel will spearhead ETSI’s strategic policy engagement with the European Commission, EFTA, CEPT, international policymakers, societal stakeholders, and industry associations, under the leadership of ETSI Director-General Jan Ellsberger.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 31 January 2025

ETSI announces the second Release of the open-source software platform developed by the Software Development Group OpenSlice. This Release continues to drive the evolution of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions, offering service providers and consumers a powerful framework for orchestrating and managing end-to-end (E2E) network services across private and public clouds.

Additionally, OpenSlice 2024Q4 builds on its comprehensive, service-based Operations Support System (OSS) capabilities to meet the evolving demands of the telecom industry. It extends developments beyond NaaS to embrace Telco Cloud scenarios, incorporating support for CAMARA and TMF Operate APIs. These enhancements enable the capability exposure essential for a contemporary Operator Platform.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 28 January 2025

ETSI has announced the establishment of a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) focused on Multiple Access Techniques (MAT) for 6G mobile systems. The group aims to build industry consensus on innovative multiple access techniques, based on 3GPP specifications.

The ISG MAT will explore candidate techniques such as Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA), Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA), Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) that enhance the transmission efficiency across parameters such as spectrum efficiency, power consumption, latency and user fairness. Relevant deployment environments considered in the ISG MAT are indoor hotspot, urban macro (e.g., High Demand Density areas) and rural settings. The ISG MAT will concentrate on downlink multiple access techniques for the physical layer of the 3GPP radio interface.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 23 January 2025

ETSI SDG OpenCAPIF, the Software Development Group developing an open-source implementation of the Common API Framework (CAPIF) defined by 3GPP, has just launched their Release 2.0.0. This version has been upgraded to support CAPIF Release 18 Technical Specifications from 3GPP and the associated YAML templates available in the 3GPP Forge.

This new Release also introduces significant updates, enhancements, and new features aimed at providing a more robust, secure, and efficient API management platform.

Sophia Antipolis, 15 January 2025

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release SEVENTEEN, a Standard non‑LTS release of OSM, meeting the established cadence of two releases per year and incorporating the innovations produced by the OSM Community.

OSM Release SEVENTEEN means the consolidation of the new architecture and scope introduced in the previous release, positioning OSM as a generalized cloud‑native orchestrator for infrastructure, platforms and services. The full cloud-native management of Kubernetes clusters introduced in Release SIXTEEN for public clouds has been extended to private clouds based on Openstack, following the same intent‑based GitOps model where every operation related to the clusters or the applications running on them is done through Git repositories.

Sophia Antipolis, November 18, 2024

The status of Open Source as a mature component of the standardization landscape and as a tool of choice for research and product development has shone through the agenda of this week’s Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services - SNS4SNS - event.

A mix of presentations, tutorials, Hackfests, posters, demos and social networking over three days has attracted over 100 experts to ETSI to explore the role of software development, advanced research and industry standards in next generation networks.

Sophia Antipolis, 6 November 2024

End-to-end Network Automation and Security Framework

Sophia Antipolis, 31 October 2024

Protect Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of Data as Smart Devices Proliferate.

Sophia Antipolis, 18 October 2024

One of the event highlights of the year - the ETSI Security Conference – has closed its doors at the end of expert discussions on a range of cybersecurity standardization topics.

195 onsite attendees enjoyed presentations across multiple sessions, over three and a half days, as well as networking opportunities at the breaks - extending into the evening - during the ETSI hosted social events.

Sophia Antipolis, 8 October 2024

ETSI announces the completion of its Release 3 specifications on Fifth Generation Advanced Fixed Network (F5G-A). Building on the achievements of the Release 1 and Release 2, the ETSI ISG F5G has specified a series of new features and capabilities, further elevating fixed fiber networks to a new level: