The MEF 3.0 SD-WAN certification program accelerates implementation of standardized SD-WAN services worldwide. The certification tests the service attributes and their behaviors defined in the MEF SD-WAN standard.
SD-WAN certification enables service providers to demonstrate conformity with the industry’s highest SD-WAN service standards through rigorous testing of service attributes, functions, and capabilities for a policy-driven, application-aware, over-the-top WAN connectivity service that uses policies to determine how application flows are directed over multiple underlay networks.
SD-WAN Certification Blueprint — 2025 Jun
Product Portfolio: SD-WAN Certification
This document specifies the SD-WAN Certification test categories, descriptions, requirement IDs, test cases and requirements (TC & R) references, and scoring used as part of the SASE Certification Program – Phase 1.
MEF-Certified SASE and SD-WAN Webinar — 2025 Apr
Product Portfolio: SASE, SD-WAN Certification, SASE Certification, SD-WAN
Tags: SASE
Looking to stand out in the competitive SASE and SD-WAN market? In this webinar, you'll discover how MEF certification enables service providers to offer high-performance solutions validated against stringent security and application performance criteria.
MEF SASE Certification – Frequently Asked Questions — 2025 Mar
Product Portfolio: Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification, SASE, SD-WAN Certification
Tags: Certification
Addressing over 40 common questions with links to additional materials.
MEF Certified SASE RFI Template for Enterprises — 2025 Feb
Product Portfolio: Enterprise APIs, SASE, SD-WAN Certification, Zero Trust Certification, SSE Certification, SASE Certification
This RFI template helps enterprise buyers evaluate certified, standards-based Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions that integrate SD-WAN, Zero Trust, and Security Service Edge (SSE) capabilities.
MEF 90.2 Draft Release 3 SD-WAN Certification Test Cases and Requirements – Phase 2 — 2024 May
Product Portfolio: SD-WAN Certification
Tags: Certification, SD-WAN
This document defines the Test Cases and requirements for SD-WAN certification.
MEF 70.1 SD-WAN Service Attributes and Service Framework — 2021 Nov
Amendments: MEF 70.2
Product Portfolio: SD-WAN Certification, SD-WAN
The SD-WAN Service Attributes and Service Framework Standard defines the externally visible behavior of SD-WAN Services. A Service deployment is based on an agreement between an SD-WAN Subscriber (the buyer) and an SD-WAN Service Provider (the seller) that includes agreement on the values of a set of SD-WAN Service Attributes defined in this document.
Adopting MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Service standards empowers service providers to unlock new overlay digital services potential and best adapt to the application-centric needs of your enterprise customers. Enterprises can, in turn, quickly assess and verify the foundational components and service attributes of a certified SD-WAN service to fully address business requirements.
MEF 3.0 Certified SD-WAN service is future-proofed to enable dynamic and automated capabilities supporting operational and control-related interactions related to the service.
All certified services and their providers are listed in the Services Certification Registry.