Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) stepped out at the ETSI SNS4SNS 2026 event, held over four days in February 2026 at ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis.

The event, titled “Building an Open Software Ecosystem for Future Connectivity and Services”, brought together researchers, industry experts, and innovators working on standardization, open-source software, and next-generation 5G and 6G networks. The focus was on creating interoperable and standards-based platforms.

During the ETSI SDG OpenSlice Tutorial, Rafael Direito, a PhD student at the University of Aveiro conducting research at IT, presented an advanced feature of ETSI SDG OpenSlice: offering CAMARA APIs as a Service. He explained how OpenSlice can be used to manage and expose CAMARA APIs, covering service lifecycle management, integration with telecom infrastructure, and alignment with CAMARA and TMF standards.

Rafael also presented a live demonstration showing the full process of delivering CAMARA APIs as a service. The demo showed how developers can use standardized APIs without managing the underlying network's complexity.

Also, Diogo Gomes, Associate Professor at the University of Aveiro and Senior Researcher at IT, presented “Deploying Mobility Services using OpenSlice.” He showed how OpenSlice supports Digital Twins for Mobility within the DT4MOB project. His presentation highlighted the orchestration of computing and network resources across 5G infrastructures, lifecycle management of Digital Twins, support for low-latency AI workloads at the edge, and reproducible experimentation across federated testbeds.

The IT team won the competition with their project “Network Testbeds as a Service (NTaaS) for Application Development” of the SNS4SNS Hackathon, which demonstrated strong technical skills and delivered a working solution aligned with the event’s focus on standardization and open-source innovation of the team members João Capucho, Igor Coelho, and Zakhar Kruptsala, supervised by Diogo Gomes and Rafael Direito.

IT participation in ETSI SNS4SNS 2026 reinforced its active role in advancing open-source networking and standardization efforts. The event also provided valuable opportunities to collaborate with the ETSI SDG community and contribute to open standards and interoperable solutions for future networks.