In a major milestone for the COP‑PILOT project, UBITECH’s Maestro, the multi-domain service orchestrator acting as the COP‑PILOT End-to-end Service Orchestrator (ESO), has officially joined the ETSI OpenSlice community as a new Module Development Group (MDG). As part of this transition, Maestro has been rebranded as Hyper Orchestrator (HypO) to align with ETSI’s open-source ecosystem.
From January 14, 2026, HypO’s codebase is publicly available on the ETSI GitLab, opening the platform to the broader ETSI OSL community. This move strengthens the project’s commitment to open standards and ensures that HypO’s capabilities in multi-domain orchestration, SLA-aware service management, and automated provisioning can be leveraged by a wider audience.
HypO was formally introduced to the ETSI community during the ETSI SNS4SNS 2026 event (February 2–5) and at the ETSI OSL Plenary #8 (February 6), in France, with UBITECH and the University of Patras representing COP‑PILOT. Attendees were able to see HypO’s orchestration capabilities in action, highlighting how the platform integrates compute, network, and service domains under a unified, automated control framework. The demonstration was part of a broader OpenSlice ecosystem showcase, highlighting the latest advancements introduced in the 2025Q4 release, including AI-native orchestration and GitOps-based control.
Within this evolving landscape, HypO, COP‑PILOT’s ESO, plays a central role in enabling seamless, end-to-end multi-domain service orchestration, ensuring that complex deployments across IoT, cloud, and 5G infrastructures meet predefined SLAs. Its integration into ETSI OpenSlice represents a strategic step toward community-driven development, wider interoperability, and adoption across the telecom and IT ecosystems.
With HypO now under the ETSI umbrella, COP‑PILOT takes a significant step forward in demonstrating how open-source orchestration frameworks can power the next generation of smart networks and services, paving the way for more collaborative, secure, and automated network operations across Europe and beyond.
Live Demonstration at ETSI SNS4SNS 2026
The SNS4SNS 2026 event offered an excellent platform for HypO to showcase its real-time orchestration capabilities in front of an international audience of experts, researchers, and ETSI members. As part of Demo 8, HypO coordinated multiple distributed network and compute resources across simulated multi-domain environments, emphasizing its ability to provision, monitor, and optimize services automatically.
During the live demo, HypO successfully:
- Deployed multi-domain services spanning cloud, edge, and 5G slices in a fully automated fashion.
- Dynamically adjusted resources to maintain SLA compliance, even under simulated network congestion and unexpected service demand changes.
- Demonstrated interoperability with other ETSI OpenSlice modules, showing how the platform can integrate into a broader ecosystem of open-source orchestration tools.
- Provided clear, real-time visualizations of the orchestration workflow, highlighting decision-making processes, resource allocation, and fault mitigation.
This demonstration was a concrete proof of HypO’s ability to translate the vision of COP‑PILOT into operational reality. By automating complex orchestration tasks and maintaining strict SLA adherence, HypO illustrates the potential of next-generation, zero-touch network operations for both research pilots and future commercial deployments.
The impact of HypO’s capabilities was further validated during the event, where the joint demonstration featuring OpenSlice, TeraFlowSDN, OSM, and Maestro (HypO) was awarded the Best Demo Award at ETSI SNS4SNS 2026. This recognition highlights the technical excellence of the solution and its relevance in addressing real-world challenges in cross-layer, multi-domain service orchestration.
- Detailed presentation of Talks and Demos presented at ETSI SNS4SNS 2026
1. Talk and Demo #1- February 3rd, Tutorial on ETSI SDG OpenSlice
OpenSlice’s advanced and new features
Instructors: Kostis Trantzas, University of Patras - Rafael Direito, IT Aveiro - Georgios P. Katsikas, UBITECH
This tutorial provided a hands-on introduction to the latest OpenSlice capabilities, guiding participants from functional observability to practical demonstrations of delivering network services as-a-Service. It highlighted AI-powered interactions through the MCP interface and illustrated OpenSlice’s alignment with industry standards, covering Northbound interfaces (TMF and CAMARA) and Southbound integrations (ETSI, Kubernetes, IETF). The session also explored OpenSlice peering mechanisms, enabling the exchange and orchestration of standardized service blueprints across instances. Attendees gained a comprehensive understanding of how OpenSlice streamlines service delivery, interoperability, and automation in modern network environments.
A demonstration of the OpenSlice peering mechanism was given with the COP-PILOT platform as an example. The demo showcased 8 OpenSlice instances across Europe, peered with HypO, which is a Module Development Group (MDG) under ETSI OSL SDG.
Related ETSI Software Development Groups:
Business value
The demo showcased how ETSI SDG OpenSlice and ETSI HypO OpenSlice MDG established a Pan-European Marketplace for COP-PILOT, offering services across multiple vertical sectors (Mining in Sweden, Smart City of Valencia, Smart Agriculture in Greece and Spain, and Energy Grid reliability in Greece) to the COP-PILOT stakeholders. Peering is a fundamental element of this marketplace that allows real-time exchange of standardized service catalogs and service specifications between orchestrators across Europe, enabling business collaboration in an emerging telco edge cloud ecosystem.
2. Talk and Demo #2– February 3rd, ETSI SDGs in Action
Cross-layer automation across multi-site and multi-stakeholder environments with OpenSlice, OSM, TeraFlowSDN, Maestro, and OpenZiti, Georgios P. Katsikas, UBITECH
This talk introduced a hierarchical orchestration platform (based on open-source components) that allows telco operators, (edge) cloud providers, large industries, and stakeholders across different business sectors to collaboratively offer modern types of services using: (i) standardized TMForum APIs (adopted by the industry today) and (ii) a user-friendly portal that realizes critical user operations with a high degree of automation, increased security, and zero-trust among the participating parties. The operations demonstrated in this talk covered:
- Scenario #1: The registration of a new private domain under the platform, showing how quickly an orchestration platform expands towards private (edge) infrastructures and new stakeholder environments in a secure and trusted manner.
- Scenario #2: The end-to-end provisioning of compute, network (5G), telemetry, and end-user services in a private edge domain in a fully automated way.
- Scenario #3A: The runtime protection of a modern service with on-demand security as a service.
- Scenario #3B: The proactive SLA preservation of a modern service through Analytics training and Inference and an automation service that closed the loop via standardized service update APIs.
The talk concluded with a demonstration of Scenario #1 and the impact of this PoC on ETSI ZSM which was the inspiration behind the PoC.
Related ETSI Software Development Groups:
- ETSI HypO OpenSlice MDG
- ETSI OpenSlice SDG
- ETSI TeraFlowSDN SDG
- ETSI Open-Source MANO SDG
Other Related SDO
ETSI ISG ZSM (ACROSS demonstrated PoC16 there)
Business value
The COP-PILOT platform leverages this ETSI ZSM PoC to offer important automation mechanisms to its infrastructure and service providers. The former stakeholders leverage Scenario #1 to effortlessly transform their (edge) domains into Connected Collaborative Computing infrastructures, promoting the advent of EU’s vision for 3C digital ecosystems. The latter stakeholders are offered nice abstractions and Zero-Touch mechanisms to auto-deploy their services and auto-manage their runtime requirements, leveraging real-time control loops that turn monitoring data into smart decisions for preserving security and performance SLAs.
3. Demo #3 – February 4th, DEMO 8 + POSTER
Cross-layer automation across multi-site and multi-stakeholder environments, Georgios P. Katsikas, UBITECH
This demonstration complemented Talk and Demo #2, showing all 4 scenarios in action.
In Talk and Demo #2 (see Section 2), Georgios P. Katsikas delivered a talk that explained all 4 scenarios of the entire ETSI ZSM PoC.
During this demo, Georgios P. Katsikas demonstrated all 4 scenarios, delving into details around all automation aspects tackled by this PoC.
Related Projects
ACROSS HEU and COP-PILOT
Related ETSI Software Development Groups
- ETSI HypO OpenSlice MDG
- ETSI OpenSlice SDG
- ETSI TeraFlowSDN SDG
- ETSI Open-Source MANO SDG
Other Related SDO
ETSI ISG ZSM (ACROSS demonstrated PoC16 there)
