Technologies

Sophia Antipolis, 11 December 2025

ETSI published a response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the EU Quantum Act.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 3 December 2025

ETSI’s 86th General Assembly took place on 2 and 3 December 2025.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 27 November 2025

Today, the European Patent Office and ETSI held their first high-level meeting at the EPO’s headquarters in Munich, marking a new chapter in a partnership that started two decades ago. During the meeting, EPO VP for Legal and International Affairs Christoph Ernst and ETSI Director-General Jan Ellsberger signed a renewed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a 3-year Workplan.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 24 November 2025

ETSI is pleased to publish the Report of the interoperability event on the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS), held from 27 to 31 October 2025.

Organised by ETSI with the support of the European Union, EFTA, TCCA-Critical Communications and UIC - International union of railways, these Plugtests™ play a key role in accelerating the global adoption of future railway communications. They enable stakeholders across the value chain to test their solutions against each other, ensuring interoperability when deploying FRMCS over 5G networks and guaranteeing interworking with the legacy GSM-R system.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 3 November 2025

ETSI’s Director-General, Mr. Jan Ellsberger, and Chief Policy Officer, Mr. Martin Chatel are in the Republic of Korea this week to engage with government representatives, trade associations, and standardisation partners.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 18 November 2025

Building the Foundation for Autonomous 6G Transport Networks, ETSI is proud to announce the launch of TeraFlowSDN Release 6. With a large set of new features across automation, observability, optical integration, and security, this release establishes TeraFlowSDN as a programmable and intelligent SDN controller that bridges IP and optical domains with full lifecycle orchestration.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 10 October 2025

If you missed the annual ETSI Security Conference, held from 6 to 9 October in the beautiful surroundings of ETSI headquarters on the French Riviera, you can still benefit from the presentations on the website.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 6 October 2025

Following the mission to Delhi in October 2024 by ETSI’s Director General, Mr. Jan Ellsberger, an ETSI Delegation is in India this week to engage with institutional and private partners and to take part in the India Mobile Congress 2025 in the context of the InDiCo-Global project.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 1 October 2025

On 1 October 2025, ETSI’s Director-General, Mr. Jan Ellsberger, and Chief Policy Officer, Mr. Martin Chatel, were honoured to meet with European Commission Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Ms. Henna Virkkunen.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 24 September 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Communications Office (ECO) to enhance cooperation on ICT standards and regulations.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 19 September 2025

During the ITEA Award of Excellence ceremony this week, the IML4E (Industrial Machine Learning for Enterprises) project was honoured with the ITEA Award of Excellence for Standardisation. ITEA is the Eureka RD&I Cluster on software innovation. Among the projects it hosts, IML4E simplifies and scales the adoption of AI & MLOps in European industry through tools, methodologies, and an open, cloud-agnostic platform.

Sophia Antipolis, 27 August 2025

ETSI published a response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence for the Revision of the New Legislative Framework.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 7 August 2025

ETSI Software Development Group OpenCAPIF (SDG OCF) is excited to announce Release 3.0.0, introducing several new features and enhancements aimed at improving functionality, security, and usability. This release includes significant updates to event management, feature negotiation, dynamic configurations, and security, along with numerous bug fixes and testing improvements.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 23 July 2025

ETSI Software Development Group OpenSlice (SDG OSL) is thrilled to announce the Release 2025Q2, marking a significant step forward in integrating advanced technologies and enhancing the user experience. This release reaffirms the group’s commitment to innovation and excellence in the ICT sector.

Sophia Antipolis, 17 July 2025

ETSI published a response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the revision of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on European standardisation.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 17 July 2025

The ETSI Work Programme showcases the ongoing efforts of our Technical Committees (TCs), Industry Specification Groups (ISGs), and Software Development Groups (SDGs), shaped by European standardisation mandates and the goals of our 900+ members.

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, 09 September 2025

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release EIGHTEEN, a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release of OSM, meeting the established cadence of two releases per year and incorporating the latest innovations produced by the OSM Community.

OSM Release EIGHTEEN builds upon the architectural evolution of previous releases, further consolidating OSM as a cloud-native orchestrator for infrastructure, platforms, and services. This release introduces significant advancements in declarative operations, cluster management, and modular installation, reinforcing OSM’s position as a leading open-source orchestration solution.

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, 25 April 2025

On April 25, 2025, an open session on "ETSI ZSM and CCSA TC7 AN L4 Technologies and Standards" was successfully held in Beijing. The session was facilitated by Professor Wenjing Li, Chair of CCSA TC7/WG1, with opening remarks delivered by Ku Wen, Chair of CCSA Board. CCSA Vice Secretary-General Xinsheng Nan, Chair of CCSA TC7 Luoming Meng, and over 40 representatives attended the seminar.

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, 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.

Sophia Antipolis, 31 March 2025

ETSI and TTA, the Telecommunication Technology Association of South Korea, are pleased to announce the renewal of their cooperation agreement. The signing ceremony, held on 25 March at ETSI’s facilities, was attended by Mr. Seung-hyun Son, President of TTA and Mr. Jan Ellsberger, ETSI Director-General. This agreement reaffirms a partnership that dates back to 1992, evolving from an initial Memorandum of Understanding to the current, robust Cooperation Agreement.

Sophia Antipolis, 26 March 2025

ETSI is pleased to unveil its 2025 ETSI Fellows who were announced at the 85th ETSI General Assembly on 25 March. The awards ceremony took place at the Meridien hotel, located in the beautiful settings of the famous Promenade des Anglais in Nice, in the South of France. Serge Raes and Alex Leadbeater were unanimously nominated as ETSI Fellows for their outstanding personal contributions to the organization by the Awards committee, composed of the GA Chair and Vice-Chairs, the Board Chair and the ETSI Director-General.

Brussels, 21 March 2025

The European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs) CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, together with ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, successfully co-hosted the 9th Cybersecurity Standardisation Conference on 20 March 2025 in Brussels.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 11 March 2025

With over 109,000 attendees from 205 countries gathering in Barcelona, Mobile World Congress (MWC) once again proved to be a key destination for ETSI.

Europe to Establish Presence in Five Countries to Strengthen Cooperation on ICT Standardization

Sophia Antipolis, France, 28 February 2025 - Are you the experts we are looking for?

The Global Partnership for Human-Centric ICT Standardization Project (GIST) was officially launched on 06 Feb 2025 at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), marking a significant step towards strengthening global collaboration on ICT standardization, as part of the EU’s Global Gateway initiative.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 17 February 2025

While Paris became the artificial intelligence (AI) capital of the world during the AI Action Summit, ETSI held its AI conference, How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI, at its premises. More than 160 face-to-face attendees from 22 countries engaged with experts who discussed the essential role of AI standards and how Standards Development Organizations can bring rationality to the AI debate.

Looking forward to the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event - Mobile World Congress 2025, March 3 - 6 in Barcelona.

Jan Ellsberger, ETSI Director-General, will be taking to the stage as a featured speaker at the following sessions:

Session 2: Monetising Mobile Services with 5G-Advanced: mobile AI, networking slicing, and massive IoT
This session will explore how 5G-Advanced is unlocking new revenue streams for MNOs through innovations such as enhanced mobile AI, network slicing, and Massive IoT.
🗓️ Monday, March 3rd | ⏰ 17:00 - 18:30 | 📍 GSMA Summit Stage, Hall 6
👉 Registration: bit.ly/4gbgGi2

The Summit will explore the future evolution of 3GPP and O-RAN ALLIANCE architectures towards 6G. Jan Ellsberger will take part of a panel discussion about Regional Views on Open RAN Activity & Outlook.
🗓️ Tuesday, March 4th | ⏰ 11:35 - 12:15 | 📍 Partner Theatre 6, Hall 8 - 4YFN & Partner Theatres
👉 Registration: https://bit.ly/3CdJXef

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, 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.