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Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) are wireless communication platforms operating above the surface of the Earth, typically achieved using satellites in low, medium or geostationary orbit as well as drones, High Altitude Platforms (HAPS) and other aerial systems. A component of 5G since 3GPP Release 17, there is now general agreement that future 6G will feature the “native integration” of NTN from the outset.

Recognizing the importance of the topic, ETSI recently held a Conference on ‘Non-Terrestrial Networks, a Native Component of 6G’ (https://www.etsi.org/events/2306-etsi-ntn-conference#pane-1/). The conference examined NTN use cases, candidate technologies, current research status and standardization roadmaps. 

Due to the intense interest in the 6G and NTN topics, this ETSI webinar will allow further discussion around the topic as our expert speakers will discuss and develop the priority areas for 6G and NTN. 

We will encourage strong audience participation during the event where the experts will answer your questions and get your thoughts / feedback on the future directions for NTN in 6G.

The webinar will be presented by:

-  Moderator: David BOSWARTHICK, Director New Technologies (NET),  ETSI 
- Javier ALBARES BUENO, Head of 5G/6G Program, Smart Network and Services Joint Undertaking 
- Nicolas CHUBERRE, 3GPP NTN Rapporteur, Thales
- Maria Guta, Senior 5G 6G SatCom Solutions Architect in the European Space Agency (ESA)  
- Alessandro Vanelli Coralli, 6G-NTN Project Coordinator

Essential Discussions about Non-Terrestrial Networks for 6G

ETSI’s Industry Specification Group (ISG) THz provides the opportunity for ETSI members to share their pre-standardization efforts on THz technology resulting from various collaborative research projects and being extended with relevant global initiatives.
The first two deliverables of this group are available. The first one is identifying and describing use cases either enabled by or highly benefiting from the use of THz communications. The second one sheds a light on the regulatory landscape and identifies the most interesting frequency bands for THz communications, as it is at the time of publication.

Use-cases and Spectrum - Key Starting Points for TeraHertz Standards

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies are enabling disruptive new applications across a wide range of digital products and services. ETSI recently run a Conference dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Reviewing the current status of AI developments worldwide, the Conference explored the role of standardization in ETSI and other SDOs to support the development of a robust market for safe, lawful AI applications and services within the framework of European policy making.  
 
Held at ETSI’s Sophia Antipolis headquarters from 5-7 February, the event welcomed close to 200 participants from 25+ countries, with featured speakers including AI experts from government agencies, standards bodies, academia and industry. 
If you missed the conference, this webinar is for you! In addition to catching up on insights from the main discussion and outcomes, we will also dive into Telco aspects of AI, aspects of verticals and Testing / Conformity assessment in AI. 
The webinar being live, this is your last opportunity to address your questions directly.

Highlights and Outcomes of the ETSI AI Conference

Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have risen dramatically over the last three decades and are of major concern for our society. Fibre-powered broadband solutions can help address these issues by providing high-speed, low-latency connections with high reliability and energy efficiency. The telecom industry has been pointed out as one of the drivers of carbon emission increase, but an attentive analysis demonstrates that a smart use of telecom networks, with state-of-the-art network technologies, allows a net carbon emission that tends to zero.

How can all-optical networks contribute to carbon transition?

OSM Release FOURTEEN makes generally available the new scalable architecture for service assurance based on Apache Airflow and Prometheus already introduced in previous release, now including the closed loops for auto-scaling and the handling of alerts coming from the VNF. 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 FOURTEEN includes significant improvements in other key areas such as secured helm-based Execution Environments (EE), new capabilities for NS deployment, relevant enhancements in user management policies and audit logs, a helm-based installation of OSM and some enhancements in OSM client. This webinar will present the highlights of the new release along with some demonstrations of the new capabilities and use cases.

OSM Release FOURTEEN Overview: a New Scalable Architecture for Service Assurance

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

The webinar will provide a guide to the MEC Service API application enablement and its interworking with the Common API Framework (CAPIF) defined in 3GPP. The speakers, as key experts in the area, will present the latest achievements and alignments in standardization in ETSI and 3GPP. The webinar will also provide an overview of the recently established Software Development Group (SDG) in ETSI called OpenCAPIF, an important open-source initiative in the area, as complementary effort to standardization. Attendees will not only benefit from this comprehensive overview but will also have the chance to get (in the final Q&A session) technical insights both from standards and open-source software points of view.

The webinar will be presented by:
• Dario Sabella, ETSI ISG MEC Chair, Intel 
• Abdessamad El Moatamid, 3GPP CT3 Delegate, Huawei
• Uwe Rauschenbach, ETSI ISG MEC Vice Chair, Nokia
• David Artunedo, ETSI SDG OpenCAPIF Chair, Telefonica

CAPIF from Standards to Practice: Synergy between 3GPP, ETSI MEC and OpenCAPIF

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