Research and Standardization
Participation in standards bodies and applied research.
xFlow is a full-time member of European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) which sets standards for cutting technologies like NFV, MEC, IoT, Smart Cities, Augmented Reality. Engineers from xFlow work closely with ETSI in different domains like Conformance and Interoperability testing, Development of Simulation and other Educational Tools based on the ETSI specifications, Export Support in Plugtests, and many more.
Following are the competencies and related work described in terms of our ETSI engagement and participation in Specialist Task Forces (STFs) and Testing Task Forces (TTFs):
xFlow also participates in different activities conducted by ETSI:
- Part of the Plugtests Team in “Expert” capacity for organizing and supporting the NFV&MEC IOP Plugtests 2021 event
- Participated as an NFVI provider in the ETSI NFV&MEC API Plugtests 2021 event
- Participated as a “Technical Expert” in organizing the 4th NFV Plugtests event
- Founding member of OSM community
- Contributed to 6th OSM Hackfest
- Provided expert support in the OSM-MR13 Hackfest 2022 by setting up VMs for the participants, wrote a Blog Post, and edited Hackfest videos
- Presenting our experiences of using different automated testing techniques at the 8th User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT)