DATA-Introduction of ETSI SDGs to TC DATA and Presentation from SDG OpenSlice

Several partners in the COP-PILOT Horizon consortium (UBITECH, Telefónica, and p-NET Emerging Networks & Vertical Applications) attended the “DATA-Introduction of ETSI SDGs to TC DATA and Presentation from SDG OpenSlice.” 

Diego R. Lopez, from Telefonica, leads the TC Data Technical Group in ETSI.

Christos Tranoris, from p-NET, did an introduction to ETSI SDG OpenSlice. His talk covered how and when OpenSlice was conceived back in 2019, its transition to ETSI, the current ETSI SDG OpenSlice architecture, the ecosystem of plug-and-play controllers around SDG OpenSlice, as well as the recent ETSI HypO MDG that was introduced as an extension of OpenSlice towards multi-domain scenarios.

Georgios P. Katsikas presented UBITECH’s work within COP-PILOT project, focusing on extending ETSI SDG OpenSlice to enable data-aware, secure multi-domain orchestration for telco-edge environments. During the presentation, Georgios P. Katsikas from UBITECH discussed the evolving compute–network–data continuum and highlighted the need to bridge the gap between orchestration platforms and data space ecosystems.

The presentation described OpenSlice as a Telco Edge–ready orchestration platform capable of multi-domain service orchestration with built-in security and extensibility through pluggable controllers. A key focus was integrating “data-awareness” into orchestration processes, enabling data services to be dynamically combined with compute and network resources while respecting policy and data-sharing constraints across domains.

COP-PILOT was presented as a large-scale European initiative where OpenSlice plays a central architectural role in supporting federated orchestration across multiple vertical sectors, including smart cities, energy, agriculture, manufacturing, and mining. The presentation also highlighted the project’s distributed marketplace of orchestration services and its use of federated data infrastructures and secure networking technologies to enable policy-driven and secure data exchange across domains.

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