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for rail, ‘Managing Rail Mobile Communications Evolution: 5G: From Myth to Reality
On Track for Future Challenges’, took place in November. In April, we held our annual ETSI Summit on the subject of
In January, we convened a unique industry information ‘5G: From Myth to Reality’. Around 240 participants gathered
modelling workshop in Louisville, USA, bringing standards to discuss the 5G priority use cases of mobile broadband,
bodies and Open Source communities together to accelerate supporting massive connectivity for the IoT and ultra-
the alignment of their Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) reliable/low latency communications.
activities.

Open Source
Supporting the Development of New Open innovation is a major trend in technology development.

Technologies Working across traditional borders, for example with Open
Source communities and foundations, can accelerate the
Industry Specification Groups development of new and innovative digital technologies. In
Our Industry Specification Groups (ISGs) have proved to be a 2016 we continued to analyse the differences and similarities
flexible platform to bring together key stakeholders, including between traditional telecommunication standardisation and
non-members of ETSI, to shape the industry. We have Open Source, and to examine possible co-operation models,
already nurtured a number of innovations in our ISGs and the with a view to establishing whether and how our work and
output of some of our earliest groups is now being built upon our members might benefit from the use of Open Source
in other ETSI committees. approaches, methodologies and frameworks in ETSI.
In 2016 we established a new ISG on Mobile and Broadcast Our Centre for Testing and Interoperability is already making
Convergence to deliver the requirements for media delivery use of Open Source-like software development approaches in
over converged networks. the production of test specifications and platforms.

Developing the Building Blocks for 5G We considered the legal implications of Open Source at a
We are working to support the development of 5G, both as a workshop in September.
partner in the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP™)
and oneM2M as well as in our own committees. We are ETSI Open Source MANO group
also helping to define the requirements for 5G. In 2016, we In February we created a new group to develop a software
conducted a comprehensive survey to collect information reference implementation (code) for the Management and
on all 5G-related activities in ETSI. Some of these activities, Orchestration (MANO) of NFV. The ETSI Open Source MANO
such as NFV, Millimetre Wave Transmission and Multi-access group (ETSI OSM) uses Open Source working procedures and
Edge Computing, will form the potential building blocks for a software development platform hosted and managed by
a 5G system and are considered key components of the next ETSI.
generation of ICT platforms.

Spectrum is a major issue for 5G. We are helping to ensure Education on Standardisation
compatibility between the different uses which may occupy We kicked-off an EC-funded project on the design and
adjacent spectrum and we are looking for ways to improve development of teaching materials for education on
spectral efficiency by using the latest methodology and ICT standardisation. We conducted interviews about
advanced techniques for sharing spectrum. standardisation with standardisation professionals, university
academics and researchers in order to identify topics to be
We have already started work on monitoring and controlling taught. The results provided the basis for a table of contents
power consumption in 5G networks. This will be a for the teaching materials under development. By the end
crucial factor in the viability of 5G in both economic and of the project in June 2018, the plan is to be able to offer
environmental terms. several teaching modules to be integrated flexibly as part of
curricula for engineers, MBA students and law students.

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