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ETSI Plugtests The interoperability service

Interop Events & Open Source Products

16 December 2004 - Patrick GUILLEMIN

ETSI Plugtests Technical Coordinator

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European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ETSI : manufacturers, network operators and service providers, administrations, research bodies and users providing a forum in which all key players can contribute. ISDN, GSM, UMTS, DECT, TETRA, SAT COM, DVB, NGN, VoIP, BRAN, Powerline, IP Cablecom…

Non-profit organization, Recognized Standards Development Organization

Based in Sophia Antipolis, south of France,

688 members from 55 countries

http://www.etsi.org/

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Plugtests Events looks like this…

Oh I discovered a BUG !!!!

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ETSI Plugtests Services

“Interop”, “Bake-off”, “Plugtests” – they are all the same

Improve both quality and interoperability

Debug fast all together

Complementary to standardisation

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INTEROPERABILTY and CONFORMANCE TESTING TOGETHER

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ETSI Plugtests Services

It is an ETSI Service : Neutral and Open to all other organizations and standards

50 events in 4 years, ~3000 engineers, ~1000 Companies and very good rate of usefulness

no sales, no marketing, no observer attend the meetings

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What is Plugtests ?

5 Staff coordinating big events with experts from ETSI

Pragmatic extended interoperability tests

Not a laboratory, no certification

Come & Test is our leitmotiv

Saving time !

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Philippe Cousin

The Boss

Nathalie Guinet

Maria-Luisa Parlatano Patrick Guillemin

*new*

Maya Ayache

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Plugtests Set up?

Participants – Implementations – standards or specifications – and Experts

Test case and Test bed at ETSI ?

Scheduling – Test Plan

Rules of engagements

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18 Plugtests Events in 2004

OSA/Parlay #2 SiPiT #14 1st ENUM Workshop SQTE #3 PKI & XAdES#2 ebXML UWB SIGTRAN #4 DSL #3 SQTE #4

IPv6 #5 GRID F-MMS & F-SMS J2ME Powerline #2 Smart Card NGN VoIP 2nd ENUM Workshop

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Open Source Products & Standards and ETSI Plugtests - 1

With IETF VoIP : SIP, SIGTRAN using ETSI TCCN Test Suites ENUM ITU-T, RIPE-NCC and ETSI

IPv6 using ETSI TCCN Test Suites MIP6 http://mip6.plugtests.org PKI

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Open Source Products & Standards and ETSI Plugtests - 2

With W3C and ObjectWeb XAdES with ETSI TC ESI GRID (ProActive Java Open Source Middleware)

OASIS and CEN/ISSS ebXML with Open Source Test Service

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WLAN Roaming (February) SQTE

3rd OSA/PARLAY (March) UWB

STQ Mobile (April)

NGN at home (April) Smart Card

ebXML (May) 2nd GRID

ENUM (June) 6th IPv6

F-SMS/MMS (June) WIMAX

4th DSL Human Factors (HF)

4th OSA/PARLAY (September) 3rd Powerline

Mobile Applications

Plugtests Events in 2005

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Open Source Plugtests

Good Idea!

GRID Plugtests is showing the way

Let us work together with a pragmatic approach!

Invent together a new kind of test event! Bring your ideas!

Motivated experts and key players are needed.

With small budget we can obtain good results ;-)

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1st « low-profile » and pragmatic Open Source Plugtests event in Q3-Q4 2005

<Contributors Wanted>

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Thank you !

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ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ISDN integrated services digital networkGSM Global System for Mobile Communications

(cellular phone technology)UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications

SystemDECT Digital European Cordless

Telecommunication systemTETRA TErrestrial TRunked RAdioSAT COM Satellite CommunicationsDVB Digital Video Broadcasting NGN Next Generation NetworksVoIP Voice Over IP (Internet Protocols)BRAN Broadband Radio Access Networks Powerline, PLC Powerline Communications :

The transmission of information using the existing power

IP Cablecom : Internet Protocol Cable Communications

SDO Standards Development OrganizationsOSA Open Service Architecture,Open Service

AccessSIPIT SIP Interoperability testsSIP Session Initiation ProtocolENUM tElephone Numbering MappingSQTE Speech Quality Test EventPKI Public Key InfrastructureXAdES XML Advanced Electronic Signatures

ebXML Electronic Business XML (eXtensible Markup

UWB Ultra-Wide BandSIGTRAN Signaling Transport DSL Digital Dubscriber Line IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (current version

is version 4)MIP6 Mobile IPv6GRID Computer Grid (like power grid)SMS Short Message Service MMS Multimedia Message Service J2ME Java 2 Micro Edition IETF The Internet Engineering Task ForceTTCN The Testing and Test Control Notation

(Tree and Tabular Combined Notation)W3C World Wide Web ConsortiumTC ESI Technical Committee Electronic

Signatures and InfrastructuresOASIS Organization for the Advancement of

Structured Information StandardsCEN/ISSS Information Society Standardization

System (European Committee for Standardisation)

WLAN Wireless LAN WIMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave

Access HF Human Factors