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This is the 4th and last event of the 2023 ETSI ZSM Webinar Series. The ultimate target of zero-touch network & service automation is a largely autonomous operation, enabling self-management, self-healing and self-optimization – without further human intervention. Trust is a major barrier to adoption and striving to build it requires a continuous learning process. As more automation processes are deployed and operate securely and efficiently, human trust will increase. Having native security (e.g. an adaptive secured framework, access control, trustworthiness, data protection) can help to establish confidence and instill trust as the automated processes deliver the intended business outcomes.
The webinar will present the results of the comprehensive study that was conducted by the ZSM group in ETSI report ZSM010 on potential security threats and risks to the ZSM framework and solutions. It will introduce mitigation options, countermeasures and security controls to address them. Furthermore, it will present additional capabilities and services being specified in ETSI ZSM 014 to ensure secured and trusted ZSM framework and solutions. Finally, a PoC on security SLA assurance in 5G network slices will be demonstrated.

Mitigating Potential Security Threats to Zero-Touch Network & Service Automation

This is the 3rd event of the 2023 ETSI ZSM Webinar Series. This webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of closed-loop automation, including the enablers, solutions, and open challenges involved. Drawing on the latest ETSI ZSM009-1, ZSM009-2, and upcoming ZSM009-3 standards, our panel of experts will offer insights to better understand closed-loop automation and the impacts of such technology in your organization. Whether you're new to the topic or looking to deepen your understanding, this webinar is an excellent opportunity to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in this subject and be able to truly unleash the potential of zero-touch network and service management.

Closed-loop automation: Unleashing the full potential of zero-touch management

This is the 2nd event of the 2023 ETSI ZSM Webinar Series. The ZSM framework and solutions were designed to enable self-management, closed-loop automation and optimized for data-driven analytics. Advanced machine-learning algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be essential tools to deal with the complexity and the diverse services.
The webinar will describe the management capabilities the ETSI specification ZSM 012 provides to enable full AI operations within the ZSM framework. These enablers include capabilities to:
• access the right data, at the right place and at the right time, while ensuring data integrity and trustworthiness 
• support coordination between multiple, distributed AI applications
• Trigger an action to support closed-loop automation
• Govern and supervise the AI-empowered operations 
• Express requirements and constraints for the deployment of the AI applications
The webinar will also introduce the results of the ETSI report ZSM 011 on Intent and will update you on the ongoing normative work on intent-drive closed loops. Finally, a Proof of Concept demonstrating the automation of intent-based cloud leased service will be presented.

Enabling AI and Providing Intent to Empower the Zero-touch Automation Solutions

This is the 1st event of the 2023 ETSI ZSM Webinar Series. This webinar will describe how the ZSM framework can be used for the cross-domain management and orchestration of end-to-end services. Based on the ETSI specification ZSM 008, it will cover the lifecycle management processes for the onboarding, fulfilment and assurance of general end-to-end services and will demonstrate how these processes can be realized leveraging the northbound interfaces of different technology domains, such as 3GPP Radio Access, Fixed Access, 3GPP Core and Transport, to realize these processes across different technology domains. Further, the mechanisms defined by ETSI ZSM 003 for the management and orchestration of network slices will be introduced. Finally, two proofs of concept (PoCs) demonstrating the ZSM end-to-end approach will be presented. The PoCs focus on autonomy, as well as on service scaling in multisite environments.

The ZSM Approach for E2E Service Orchestration: Standards and Proofs of Concept

New technologies, in particular artificial intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) are essential today for profiling users, in order to cope with their expectations to communicate "anywhere, anytime, on any device, for every service, with everyone ". 
It is important however to put the user at the center of the data system. Therefore, ETSI has developed a model allowing to design a user-centric digital clone for the smart identity, application independent, and leaving control of data to the user. This step will lead to the design of the Smart Interface.
In this webinar, the ETSI User Group will present their work and a Proof of Concept (POC), that demonstrates the possibility of digitizing personal information, by delivering the active user profile at any time.

A user-centric approach of smart digital identity by ETSI

This webinar will present the recently published ETSI GS MEC 040 specification, on “MEC Federation Enablement APIs”, which is critical to enable inter-MEC system communication and allow 5G operators to collaborate among themselves and with service cloud providers and other stakeholders. This new specification relates to the Telco Edge Cloud concept and the requirements introduced by GSMA OPG (Operator Platform Group), and it defines new APIs for the enablement of the MEC federation, by allowing operators to "federate" edge computing resources by offering their MEC service capabilities for: mutual consumption; application developers; and end customers (e.g. vertical market segments).

MEC Federation Enablement APIs: overview and instructions for use

This webinar offers an overview of the recently announced ETSI TeraFlowSDN release 2.0, and a demonstration of some of its latest features.

In this second TeraFlowSDN release, a big focus is put on scalability and resilience of the controller, with a complete re-design of the Context Component to include a scalable database (i.e., CrocoachDB) to support the stringent non-functional requirements. Also, a lot of attention is put on network automation, with the implementation of a long list of new workflows, including L3VPN establishment with SLA, multi-layer topology discovery, service Access Control List (ACL), service restoration, service location-awareness, traffic engineering, slice SLA enforcement, slice grouping, forecasting, inter-domain slice SLA enforcement, inter-domain connectivity provisioning and SLA enforcement using DLT, and Energy-aware network service placement.

During the webinar, some of the main TFS participants will introduce the highlights of the new TFS release along with some demonstrations of the new capabilities and use cases that the TFS community has been working on during this cycle:

- Ricard Vilalta (Chair ETSI TeraFlowSDN | CTTC)
- Lluis Gifre (TSC Chair ETSI TeraFlowSDN | CTTC)
- Oscar Gonzalez de Dios (TSC Member ETSI TeraFlowSDN | Telefónica)

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TeraFlowSDN release 2 overview

This webinar offers an overview of the recently announced ETSI Open Source MANO Release THIRTEEN, and a demonstration of some of its latest features.

OSM Release THIRTEEN introduces a new scalable architecture for service assurance and closed-loop operations leveraging on cloud-native version of Apache Airflow and Prometheus. This architecture is prepared to cover the most demanding service assurance scenarios such as auto-healing and auto-scaling in large clouds and multiple edge sites. In addition, Release THIRTEEN includes significant improvements in other key areas such as new capabilities for NS deployment, improved execution environments, architectural evolution of LCM module, OSM air-gapped installation and some enhancements in OSM client.

During the webinar, some of the main OSM participants will introduce the highlights of the new OSM release along with some demonstrations of the new capabilities and use cases that the OSM community has been working on during this cycle:

- Francisco-Javier Ramón Salguero (Chair ETSI Open Source MANO | Telefónica)
- Gerardo García de Blas (TSC Chair ETSI Open Source MANO | Telefónica)
- Mark Beierl (TSC Member ETSI Open Source MANO | Canonical)

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OSM Release THIRTEEN overview

This Webinar is providing an overview on current initiatives by the European Commission driving a number of key policy initiatives related to Cybersecurity, Privacy, protection against fraud and Artificial Intelligence from a standardization point of view. In this context, new essential requirements are being introduced which are required to be met by equipment manufacturers in order to maintain continued access to the Single European market. A Delegated Act was issued related to the Radio Equipment Directive (RED) invoking RED Articles 3(3)(d), 3(3)(e) and 3(3)(f) related to Cybersecurity, Privacy and protection against fraud respectively for radio equipment. In the context of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), a broad concept of “digital elements” is being introduced for which new essential requirements are being defined. CRA explicitly relates to software such as Operating Systems as well as hardware components such as Microprocessors and others. The Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is furthermore providing a broad legal framework for future AI systems. The Webinar will enable the participant to understand the current status of the related activity and possibilities to influence the implementation of the regulation initiatives through participation in standardization activities.

Information about the speaker:
Dr. Markus Mueck is a Principal Engineer with Intel Deutschland, Munich, Germany and an Engineering Director leading Intel Germany’s Standardization organization; he acts as Member of the Board of the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), Vice-Chair of the ETSI Board, Vice-Chair of the ETSI OCG AI Committee overseeing ETSI’s AI/ML activities, he is member of the ETSI Delegation to 3GPP PCG/OP and Adj. Professor of University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is leading the Hexa-X Working Package on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Status update on Radio Equipment Directive, Cyber Resilience Act and AI Act

Making the edge sharp and safe: update on MEC security
MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) environments are by nature characterized by a complex multi-vendor, multi-supplier, multi-stakeholder ecosystem of equipment including both HW and SW devices. Given this overall level of system heterogeneity, the areas of security, trust, and privacy are key topics for the edge environments. Finally, the advent of edge cloud federations and the presence of (far) edge devices, e.g. in Internet-of-Things environments, requires tackling MEC security with an end-to-end (E2E) approach by leveraging existing standards relevant in the area, carefully selected to be applicable in edge computing systems.

This webinar will offer an overview of MEC security, by providing an updated status from standards and industry groups, and exploring security-related use cases and requirements with the aim of identifying aspects of security where the nature of edge computing results in insufficient industry approaches to cloud security.  In particular, webinar attendees will find from speakers key interesting aspects, like security for MEC Federation, Infrastructure security and physical protection, Data protection, User security and Data security, Network Security Layer and Application Security Layer.

Making the edge sharp and safe: update on MEC security

XR systems embed many sensors to capture the real world in 3D. They use them mainly for localization and understanding purposes. But how to structure the captured representation of the real world in a way to provide interoperability among existing XR systems? This webinar will present you the recently published ETSI specifications and available tools to create, modify and store a world representation. The storage takes place as a shared graph on a remote server. With this approach, the world representation specification also supports the creation of large scale XR experiences.

Towards an interoperable world representation for XR

This webinar offers an overview of the recently announced ETSI Open Source MANO Release TWELVE, and a demonstration of some of its latest features.

Release TWELVE is the second Long Term Support release of ETSI Open Source MANO bringing a significant progression in terms of functionality, with the addition of new healing capabilities, improved day-2 operations for Network Services, and ETSI NFV-SOL003 support for Network Functions life cycle management, among others.

During the webinar, some key OSM community members will introduce the highlights of OSM Release TWELVE along with in-depth demonstrations of the new capabilities and use cases that the OSM community has developed during this cycle:

- Francisco-Javier Ramón Salguero (Chair ETSI Open Source MANO | Telefónica)
- Gerardo García de Blas (TSC Chair ETSI Open Source MANO | Telefónica)
- Mark Beierl (TSC Member ETSI Open Source MANO | Canonical)
- Ramesh Ramanathan (TSC Member ETSI Open Source MANO | Tata Elxsi)

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OSM Release TWELVE Overview

ETSI ISG IPE is addressing a number of major industry scenarios to fulfil the connectivity needs that arise from each sector. The Rapporteurs of each report addressing 5G transport, Cloud Integration and Datacenter, Industrial Internet and Enterprise, and IPv6 based Blockchain present their key findings and recommendations.

Moderator - Latif Ladid, ISG IPE Chair
1) 5G transport over IPv6 and SRV6, Medel Ramirez, Phillipine IPv6 Forum, Global Telecom and Sebastien Lourdez, POST Lux - 30 minutes
2) Datacenter and Cloud Integration, Cong (Claire) Li, China Telecom - 15 minutes
3) Industrial Internet and Enterprise, Pascal Thubert, Cisco - 15 minutes
4) IPv6-based Blockchain, Jack Davies, nChain - 15 minutes
5) Q&A

Part 2: IPv6 Enhanced Innovation - Major Industry Scenarios

A number of ETSI ISG IPE and global industry leaders will discuss the current IPv6 status and the future perspectives and identify needs in terms of guidelines, policies and functional evolution. An approach from the 90 members of ISG IPE and interaction with other SDOs will identify benefits and reuse of each other's output. This includes the IETF, Operators, Verticals and government policies that are key to define the varied co-operation toward a common strategy and to accelerate the IP industry evolution.

0) Open introduction - ETSI
1) IPE status and plan, Latif Ladid (ISG IPE Chair) - 10 minutes
2) IPE and IETF synergy, Pascal Thubert, IETF WG Chair, Cisco - 15 minutes
3) IPv6-based Blockchain Vision, Craig Wright, nChain - 15 minutes
4) IPv6 in France: Policy and Deployment, Jean-Charles Bisecco, France IPv6 Task Force -  15 minutes
5) IPv6 and SRv6 experience and expectations, Thomas Graf, Swisscom - 15 minutes
6) Q&A

Part 1: IPv6 Enhanced Innovation Global Vision

The F5G network has three characteristics for extending and enhancing fixed networks, defined as eFBB, FFC and GRE. To implement these characteristics, the F5G architecture has introduced new design principles and new features. Such features include separation of the data plane into an Underlay Plane and a Service Plane, dual network fabrics for the Aggregation Network, comprising an IP/Ethernet and an OTN fabric, and the seamless and combined usage of PON and OTN, and E2E slicing. Based on these design principles and new features, F5G can provide a variety of services for residential and enterprise customers over one physical network with guaranteed SLAs. 

The webinar will provide brief introduction of the E2E F5G architecture and addressing the above mentioned features. Besides the network architecture, also the overall ISG F5G projects and its progress will be illustrated.

The new F5G fibre network – a future proof architecture

The importance of testing and interoperability

Cybersecurity - status of work in ETSI

ICT Standards overview and ETSI - discover the ETSI environment

Wireless technology is becoming an ever-increasing part of our lives. The EMC Directive (2014/30/EU) and the Radio Equipment Directive (2014/53/EU) have now been in place for several years, but the technology and the regulatory environment are still developing rapidly.  This webinar will give an overview of recent developments and identify how the more recent ETSI standards and other deliverables can be used to support manufacturers  to demonstrate compliance and access the market in Europe.

Recent developments in RED & EMCD: How to make the best use of ETSI

Radio Equipment Directive

EMC Directive

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