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 A European standards organization
 Active in all areas of ICT
 Setting globally-applicable standards for
 telecommunications
 radiocommunications
 broadcasting
 related topics
 Independent, not-for-profit organization, created in 1988
 ISO 9001:2000 certified
 Offering direct participation
 660 Member companies and organisations
 We have more than 17 000 publications - freely available!
http://www.etsi.org
http://portal.etsi.org
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The mission of ETSI is to develop globally applicable deliverables meeting the needs of the Information and Communications
Technologies (ICT) community, whilst supporting EU and EFTA regulation and initiatives.
In order to achieve its mission, ETSI favours international collaboration.
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ETSI is the preferred organisation for the ICT industry and other stakeholders, to develop standards and specifications for the global market, and to support regional initiatives as appropriate
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 a REGULATORY body, but…
 we provide technical specifications to support regulation
 a CERTIFICATION body, but…
 we provide specifications and other tools to assist certification
 a FREQUENCY ALLOCATION body, but…
 we collect, co-ordinate and contribute frequency requirements for the ICT community
 part of the European Commission, nor part of CEPT, but…
 we work closely with these and many other organisations
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ESO
European
Standards
Organization
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GSP
Global
Standards
Producer
SPO
Service
Providing
Organization
ESO: European Standards Organization: standardization for
European needs
GSP: Global Standards Producer: standardization for the global level
SPO: Service Providing Organization: services such as interoperability testing, forum management etc.
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ESO
European Standards Organization
GSP
Global Standards Producer
SPO
Service Providing Organization
European Standards (EN)
Harmonised Standards (HS)
Technical Specifications
Technical Reports
ETSI Standards
ETSI Guides
(TS)
(TR)
(ES)
(EG)
Interoperability service
Forum hosting and secretariat services
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 Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)
 Fax, modems, etc
 Telecoms networks
 ADSL etc
 Cable distribution systems
 Exchange equipment
 Protocols
 Power line telecommunications
 Safety
 Speech recognition
 Testing
 SMS for fixed networks
 …
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 Mobile
 GSM, UMTS, Railway communications…
 private/professional land mobile radio systems
 Cordless (DECT)
 In the past, analogue cordless & paging
 Spectrum matters & electromagnetic compatibility
 Wireless Local Area Networks
 TETRA & other public safety systems
 Broadcast
 Satellite communications
 Short range devices
 Aeronautical and marine radio
 Wireless medical devices
 Ultra wideband (UWB)
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We are the home of the GSM™ family of standards…
And a founding partner in
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 ETSI was established as a European body and retains
European responsibilities. But…
 …many of ETSI’s Members are global players…
 …so ETSI seeks to have its standards adopted worldwide
 Over 100 of ETSI’s Members (about 20% of the total) have no established operations in Europe
 Many of the other 80% are headquartered outside Europe
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 Remember GSM ?
 Developed (by ETSI) for Europe
 Now a worldwide success story!
• More than 1.7 billion users in over 200 countries
• One million new users EVERY DAY!
Just some examples…
 ETSI’s Lawful Interception handover standard
 Being deployed in Europe…
 But also in USA and Australia, where the laws are being developed to comply with the ETSI Standard
 DECT – Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
 Originally Digital European Cordless Telecommunications
 Over 200 million terminals in more than 110 countries
 DVB system specifications
 Based on DVB Project proposals
 Services available on every continent
 TETRA
 Currently 788 contracts in 77 countries
 Radio microphones and cordless audio equipment
 Global agreement on common standards
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In addition to standards-making, ETSI provides a range of supporting services, notably…
 Creation of test specifications and methodologies
 Interoperability testing (Plugtests ™)
 Forum hosting (Forapolis)
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 Full member
 Established in geographical area of Europe (as defined by CEPT)
 Committed to ETSI Statutes and Rules of Procedure
 Associate member
 Committed to ETSI’s work, but without a presence in the CEPT geographical area of Europe
 Observer
 Entitled to be full member, but not wishing to participate in
ETSI’s technical work
 Counsellor
 Representative of European Commission or EFTA Secretariat
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 Administrations, Administrative Bodies and National
Standards Organizations
 Network Operators
 Manufacturers
 Users
 Service Providers, Research Bodies, Consultancy
Companies/Partnerships, and others
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 All members are expected to appoint a formal Contact
Person
 for Collective Letters, membership and other formal matters, etc
 All Full and Associate Members are expected to appoint a
Voting Contact
 for approval of ETSI deliverables
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(May 2006)
 511 Full Members from 37 European countries
• (but many headquartered outside Europe)
 38 Observers
 108 Associate Members from 21 non-European countries
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657 TOTAL from 59 countries 38
108
511
Full Members
Associate Members
Observers
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(May 2006)
700
600
500
400
300
200
126
187
100
249
289
316 330
365 387
418
457
512
567
607
653 672
537
520 498 511
0
Year
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(May 2006)
250
200
174
191
153
150
126 126
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100
72
50
43
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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 01 02
Year
102 108
03 04 05 06
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Albania 1
(Full & Associate)
Algeria 1
Andorra 1
(May 2006)
Australia 2
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
India
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Brazil
Canada
China
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
83
116
5
4
1
16
73
1
1
3
1
11
7
28
4
1
7
9
11
26
2
4
2
4
18
1
Japan
Korea
Latvia
Lichtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uzbekistan
Yemen
3
4
16
23
18
10
1
6
1
2
52
1
1
657
27
9
5
2
4
7
3
2
2
1
2
1
1
2
1
6
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60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
No of Members Weighted vote
Administration
Manufacturer
Network Operator
Service Provider
Users
Consultancy
Research Body
Others
Other Govt Bodies
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General
Assembly
ETSI
Board
Special
Committees
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“Technical
Organisation”
Technical
Committees
ETSI
Partnership
Projects
Working
Groups
The ETSI Secretariat gives support to all the different bodies in the Organization

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 Access & Terminals
 Broadband Radio Access Networks
 Broadcast
• Joint Technical Committee with European Broadcasting
Union and CENELEC
 Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication (DECT)
 Environmental Engineering
 Electromagnetic Compatibility & Radio Spectrum
 Electronic Signatures & Infrastructures
 Human Factors
 Information & Communication Systems
• Joint Technical Committee with ECMA
 Lawful Interception
 Mobile Standards Group
Continued…
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Continued…
 Methods for Testing & Specification
 Powerline Telecommunications
 Railway Telecommunications
 Safety
 Satellite Earth Stations & Systems
 Smart Card Platform
 Speech Processing, Transmission & Quality
 Telecoms & Internet converged Services
& Protocols for Advanced Networks
 Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA)
 Transmission & Multiplexing
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Technical
 Emergency Communications
 Security Algorithms
 User Group
Administrative
 Finance Committee
 Joint ETSI/ECMA
 Marketing & Promotion
 Operational Co-ordination
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3 rd Generation Partnership Project
specifying a W-CDMA system based on an evolution of the GSM core network, a member of the ITU’s IMT-2000 family
Organizational Partners:
ARIB (Japan), CCSA (China), ETSI , TTA (Korea), TTC (Japan),
ATIS (USA)
Market Representation Partners:
GSA, GSM Association, UMTS Forum, IPv6 Forum, 3G Americas,
TD-SCDMA Forum, TDIA http://www. 3gpp.org
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Mobile Broadband for Emergency and
Safety Applications
Formerly: Public Safety Partnership Project
 initiated by ETSI Project TETRA (under the name of DAWS)
 and by TIA and the Association of Public-Safety
Communications Officials (APCO) under APCO's Project 34.
Organizational Partners:
ETSI , TIA (USA)
Observers:
ISACC (Canada), TTA (Korea) http://www. projectmesa.org
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 Supports all activities of the Institute
 Around 100 staff
 Includes:
 ‘Mobile Competence Centre’
 ‘Fixed Competence Centre’
 ‘Radio Competence Centre’
 ‘Protocols and Testing Competence Centre’
 Plugtests ™ service
 Forapolis service
 Additional technical experts on a full time basis in Specialist
Task Forces (STF)
 based at ETSI headquarters
 at any time, about 30 STFs,
100 experts
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Work Item introduced
Drafting
Drafting in technical committee, working group or
Specialist Task Force
Approval Publication
IMMEDIATE
If Technical
Specification or Technical
Report
Approval of draft by technical committee
ETSI
Member vote
NSO
Enquiry and Vote
90 DAYS
If ETSI
Standard or
ETSI Guide
6 – 12
MONTHS
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 ETSI Technical Specifications (TSs)
 ETSI Technical Reports (TRs)
 Approved by the TC or Project concerned
 Traditional or web-based voting
 ETSI Standards (ESs)
 ETSI Guides (EGs)
 Approved by the full ETSI Membership
 Web-based voting tool
 European Standards (ENs, telecommunications series )
 Approved by National Delegations, through the
National Standards Organizations (NSOs)
 Web-based voting tool
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Annual PRODUCTION
(Values for 2006 and 2007 are predicted values)
All Technical Bodies and all deliverables types
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1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
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3000
2800
2600
2400
2200
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1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
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Publications from beginning of ETSI up to end March 2006
16762 298
Document type Published Adopted awaiting publication
EN
ES
EG
4039
381
176
(1) 7
0
0
TS
TR
SR
10428
1692
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(2)
(3)
273
18
(1) i ncluding amendments, ETS, I-ETS and TBR.
(2) including GTS.
(3) including TCR-TR, TC-TR and ETR.
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In process of adoption
(after TB approval)
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ISO
JTC1 IEC ITU
NATIONAL
ADMINISTRATIONS
CEN
NATIONAL
BODIES
CENELEC ETSI
INDUSTRY, USERS ETC.
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 EC and EFTA
 ITU, IEC and ISO
 European standards organizations
 Standards bodies in other regions
 CEPT
 R&D bodies and programmes
 National Standards Organizations
 Fora and Consortia
 Other bodies inside and outside Europe
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International bodies
ITU-T ITU-R
Interregional
Co-operation
GTSC
GRSC
CEN CENELEC
JTC1
Fora /
Consortia
• DECT Forum
• DVB Project Group
• EBU
• GSM Association
• IEEE
• IMTC
• IPv6 Forum
• TETRA Forum
• UMTS Forum
• & 50+ others
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Interregional collaboration on selected standardization subjects between
(Chin a)
ISACC (Canada)
ARIB
(Japan)
TTC
(Japan)
TIA (USA)
TTA
(Korea)
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ATIS (USA)
ITU
(International)
ACIF
(Australia)
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 EC: Green Paper on Telecommunications (1987)
 Counsellors of ETSI
 Contribution to the ETSI Work Programme
 ETSI official recognition by the EC in Summer 1992
 Framework Contracts
 "Mandated" (contracted) work in support of European regulation and legislation
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 Numerous agreements with global and regional standards bodies, fora, research projects, etc., etc.
See the ETSI web site for the latest list and summaries of current agreements
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Global Standard Producer
• Fulfil industry needs for specifications
• ETSI first choice for new work
• External relations
• Strengthen links with research institutes
& universities
• Promote ETSI (use EC programmes)
• Open Standards & interoperability
• Increase visibility of ETSI in ICT
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Service Proving Organization
• Strengthen links between ETSI TBs and Strategic Topics
• Promote Forapolis
• Develop PTCC and Plugtests™, partnering with other standards org’s and fora on test specifications and testing
• Increase responsiveness and efficiency of customer support
ETSI
Strategie s
European Standards Org’n
• Keep role as ESO
• Keep ETSI strategy in line with EC initiatives & support European ICT agenda
• Pursue new EC opportunities
See ETSI/GA46(05)13
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 Most ETSI & 3GPP meetings now totally paperless
 Document distribution by e-mail and web sites
 All meeting rooms equipped with LANs
 increasingly wireless LAN
 Most administrative tasks now performed using web applications, including:
 meeting organization
 meeting registration
 document numbering and 'distribution'
 approval of deliverables (standards and reports)
 membership information
 delegates' contact details and account management
 free download of published deliverables
 IPR declarations and database
 on-line shopping
 ETSI Documentation Service on DVD; updates via web site

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 ETSI website
 ETSI portal
 3GPP website
 MESA website
 Other hosted sites
 E-mail exploder lists
 For all of ETSI’s activities
 Official Contact for each ETSI Member
 Receives all formal correspondence
 Plus the complete ETSI library on DVD
4 times a year
 Helpdesk
 +33 (0)4 92 94 49 00 : helpdesk@etsi.org
 http://portal.etsi.org/Helpdesk/home.asp
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