NFV Testing Landscape

The pivotal deployment of 5G and network slicing has triggered the need for a radical change in the way networks and services are managed and orchestrated. Full end-to-end automation of network and service management has become an urgent necessity for delivering services with agility and speed and ensuring the economic sustainability of the very diverse set of services offered by Digital Service Providers. The ultimate automation target is to enable largely autonomous networks which will be driven by high-level policies and rules (AKA intent); these networks will be capable of self-configuration, self-monitoring, self-healing and self-optimization without further human intervention. All this requires a new flexible end-to-end architecture framework designed for closed-loop automation and optimized for data-driven machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.
The ETSI ISG ZSM was formed with the goal to accelerate the definition of the required end-to-end architecture, and the presenter will introduce the ETSI ZSM architecture that was published on August 2019.

The ETSI Technical Committee on cybersecurity published the first globally applicable standard for consumer IoT security, ETSI TS 103 645, in February 2019. The standard will soon become a European standard (EN). This standard has also inspired the development of a test specification. This webinar will go over the 13 key areas which establish a security baseline for internet-connected consumer products and could provide the basis for future IoT certification schemes.

This webinar will provide an update of the latest activities of the ETSI Technical Committee Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures to provide a standardization framework for trust services.
It will cover digital signatures formats and procedures and policies for their creation and validation; policy, security and technical requirements for trust service providers (TSP) such as certification authorities, time-stamping authorities, TSP providing remote signature creation or validation functions, registered e-delivery providers, and long-term data preservation providers. It will also address Trusted Lists that enhance the confidence of parties relying on certificates or other services related to digital signatures by indicating whether a given TSP was operating under the approval of any recognized scheme.

Hosted by the Chairman of TC CYBER, which is the most security-focused Technical Committee in ETSI, this webinar will cover work, standards and developments in cybersecurity eco-system. It will address protection of personal data and communications, IoT security and privacy, cybersecurity for critical infrastructures, enterprise and individual cybersecurity, cybersecurity tools to support government activities, forensic activities, direct support to EU Legislation and the Quantum-Safe Cryptography working group.

The webinar will provide a guidance for software developers on how to properly approach architecting and developing applications with components that will run in edge clouds, such as those compliant with ETSI’s MEC standards.

This webinar will also offer a live demo on how to use APIs, as suitable tools to use MEC technology, they will also be showcased at the forthcoming MEC Hackathon in September.

Two experts from the ETSI Special Committee USER, will present results of their work on future solutions for a new role of users and consequently providers. This presentation, based on the results of two surveys and the analysis of several use cases, introduces a generic model for this new approach. The webinar also introduces the concepts of composition of services and of “as a service”, including the definition of profiles. A special attention has been drawn on security, data protection, privacy and Quality of Experience.

Quantum computing will break today’s public key cryptography standards that we use to secure communications today. The ETSI Quantum-Safe Cryptography (QSC) working group is publishing standards that will secure data in a world where quantum computers exist. This webinar will cover the basics of what quantum computing is, how it works and its impacts on currently-used security practices and cryptography. We’ll then cover the industry response to quantum-based security threats and present the landscape of quantum-safe security mechanisms.

Attribute Based Encryption (ABE) bundles strong confidentiality with very flexible access control policies. Here, we present the ABE toolkit developed in ETSI TC CYBER through the standards ETSI TS 103 458 and ETSI TS 103 532. This webinar will introduce the challenges related to access control and protection of personal data and describe the ABE toolkit in detail. It will also provide real-world scenarios as example and an outlook on future developments of the toolkit.

ETSI's new Middlebox Security Protocol (MSP) standards describe a new approach to network security; using middleboxes for layered defence and for management of secure enterprise networks – without infringing user privacy. The MSP standards are designed to protect enterprise networks, facilitating secure management and vital network operations, whilst giving control of user data back to the user.
This webinar will describe use cases for MSP, outline projects from the hackathon held on 13 June 2018 and explain the standard for implementers.

Hosted by the Chairman of TC CYBER, which is the most security-focused Technical Committee in ETSI, this webinar will cover work, standards and developments in cyber security eco-system. It will address protection of personal data and communications, IoT security and privacy, cyber security for critical infrastructures, enterprise and individual cyber security, cyber security tools to support government activities, forensic activities, direct support to EU Legislation and the Quantum-Safe Cryptography working group.

ETSI ISG MEC is the home of MEC standards. ETSI MEC has developed a flexible API framework for multi-access networks that can be deployed not only in 5G systems but in current 4G systems. MEC specifications support the transition from 4G to 5G, by enhancing the capabilities of current systems with full forward compatibility with the next generation. This webinar will explain these concepts, illustrating a few deployment options of MEC in 4G. It will also describe its relation with the key elements and functionalities of the brand new 5G architecture and explain their collaborative interactions with MEC. The content of this webinar is supported by two recently published ETSI white papers, “MEC Deployments in 4G and Evolution Towards 5G” and “MEC in 5G networks.”

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is one of the key building blocks of 5G and a market driver for current 4G networks. After a short introduction to MEC, this webinar will bring you through ETSI MEC progress and how the industry is using it to build actual commercial products, based on Nokia use case. We will also share how ETSI drives activities to help accelerate market adoption through hackathons, Proofs of Concepts, best practice and informative white papers.

Software radio reconfiguration offers solutions to recurring issues when linking hardware radio systems with software, allowing the upgrade and patching of radio systems deployed in the field. However, software radio systems must address a number of issues:

• How to transfer and install radio software components in a secure way

• How to provide access to new software components to a user/operator

• How to deal with device certification and type approval issues when new radio software components can modify the radio behaviour of a device

• How to provide software portability and achieve efficient radio performance

• How to gradually evolve a system towards software reconfigurability

ETSI’s Software Radio Reconfiguration model provides a modular and scalable solution to the challenge of deploying and using software radio systems. The solution, described in a recent ETSI white paper and in the EN 303 146 series of European Standards, allows a gradual and stepwise deployment of software reconfigurable radio, through different generations of equipment. This enables device manufacturers to gradually implement software reconfigurable radios, developing confidence at each step of the way.

Dr. Markus Mueck, of Intel, is the chairman of ETSI’s technical committee for Reconfigurable Radio Systems (TC RRS). In this webinar, he will explain in more details the advantages of software radio reconfiguration, and explain how the ETSI Software Radio Reconfiguration model addresses each of the issues identified above.

This webinar walks the audience through the main ingredients of the Test Description Language (TDL) standardized at ETSI. It showcases the use of TDL for designing scenario-based test purposes and test descriptions, using examples from test suites standardized at ETSI. An integrated development environment for TDL, developed as part of the TDL Open Source Project (TOP) under the guidance of the ETSI Technical Committee Method for Testing and Specification (TC MTS), will be demonstrated as means to get started with using TDL today.

This Webinar will provide a high level overview of ETSI activities on the development of REST APIs for NFV Management and Orchestration, followed by a tutorial on the VNF Package specification that has just been completed.
The VNF package specification ETSI GS NFV-SOL 004 defines a standard way for VNF providers to deliver VNFs to service providers and makes the delivery simple, effective and efficient. A uniform VNF package format enables automatic execution of VNF on-boarding and acceptance testing, and allows the VNFs to be interoperable with independently developed NFV management and orchestration systems.
The VNF package specification leverages the TOSCA YAML CSAR archive format by adding all necessary integrity and authenticity features.

Since 13 June 2016, European Union Member States applied new rules for placing radio equipment on the European market and putting them into service. From 13 June this year, all radio equipment being placed on the market or put into service must comply with the new Radio Equipment Directive (RED), 2014/53/EU. ETSI’s Harmonised Standards are often the preferred method of demonstrating compliance with European radio regulations. This webinar will explain how industry can access the EU market using ETSI Harmonised Standards, provide an update on the status of availability of ETSI’s Harmonised Standards, and indicate alternative paths in the cases where Harmonised Standards are not yet available.

Dr. Michael Sharpe is the Director of Spectrum and Equipment Regulation at ETSI. He is responsible for ensuring effective co-operation of ETSI’s technical activities with the work of key regulatory bodies and partner standards bodies at the National, European and Global level. His current priorities include working with the European Commission to ensure the smooth introduction of the Radio Equipment Directive, and the continuing close co-operation with CEPT and the Commission Radio Spectrum Unit to ensure that ETSI Harmonised Standards and Regulations on radio frequency use are developed in a co-ordinated and effective manner.

Network Functions Virtualisation holds some particular challenges in the telecommunications space. This webinar will discuss the publications of ETSI NFV Security Working Group and some future work directions.
The webinar will be presented by Mike Bursell, Chief Security Architect at Red Hat Inc. Mike is also the vice-chair of ETSI NFV SEC working group.