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Enterprise IT teams are under pressure. AI workloads are growing. Private and hybrid clouds are now standard. Users are more distributed. Security threats are unrelenting. Internally, enterprise systems are evolving, but externally, interactions with service providers remain largely manual.
This automation gap slows provisioning, scaling, troubleshooting, and innovation. It forces IT teams to spend valuable resources on coordination and support instead of strategy. Mplify (formerly MEF) is solving this challenge.
As a global alliance of service providers, cloud providers, technology providers, enterprises, system integrators, and data centers, Mplify is driving the future of the AI-powered digital economy through standardization, certification, and collaboration. Its Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) network automation APIs give enterprises a consistent, automated way to interact with providers across the global network ecosystem.
This guide explains how LSO network automation APIs work, where they apply, and how Mplify is supporting enterprise adoption.
The Enterprise Automation Gap
Enterprises depend on multiple providers for connectivity, cloud access, edge compute, and security. But coordinating across them is still manual, inconsistent, and time-consuming.
Common challenges include:
- Orders and quotes require emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets.
- Troubleshooting takes too long without shared visibility.
- APIs vary across providers, forcing one-off integrations.
- Circuit impairments or planned maintenance events often go unreported.
- Lack of observability across overlays (SD-WAN) and underlays (Ethernet, IP, broadband).
Example: A financial services firm operating latency-sensitive trading apps needs seamless connectivity across metro, cloud, and international links. When one segment degrades, a delay in detection or response can lead to performance loss or compliance risk.
Today’s enterprise operations require automation at scale. AI and digital services need real-time awareness and control. Anything slower becomes a liability.
What Are LSO Network Automation APIs?
Mplify’s LSO network automation APIs standardize the way enterprises and providers interact. They replace proprietary systems and manual tasks with automated, machine-readable interfaces.
LSO APIs fall into two core categories:
- Business APIs: quoting, ordering, billing, inventory, and ticketing.
- Operational APIs: service performance, testing, impairment reporting, and fault isolation.
Each API uses standardized schemas that simplify integration, testing, and reuse. Instead of rebuilding integrations for every provider, enterprises can connect once and use across many.
Recent additions include:
- Irene LSO API Release: adds advanced addressing, expanded service coverage, real-time telemetry, and payloads for broadband and GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), significantly enhancing operational observability and lifecycle support.
- LSO API Adaptor Tool: an open-source, low-code solution for mapping commercial payloads to proprietary systems, accelerating implementation and reducing time-to-value.
LSO network automation APIs also support overlay/underlay orchestration use cases and are designed to help enterprises automate service interactions in environments increasingly influenced by AI, multi-cloud traffic flows, and dynamic policy enforcement.
Mplify continues to expand and improve its suite of LSO network automation APIs through regular releases. While new capabilities are added each cycle, a robust foundation is already available. Enterprises can adopt standardized business and operational APIs to automate quoting, ordering, performance monitoring, fault management, and more today. By the end of 2025, over 95 providers and enterprises are expected to exchange services using LSO-enabled automation across global markets.
Key Enterprise Use Cases
LSO APIs power a growing number of real-world automation use cases.
Circuit Impairment & Maintenance (CIM): Mplify’s CIM Service API enables service providers to notify enterprises when circuits are impaired or under maintenance. CIM improves incident response and eliminates the need to track outages via email.
Cybersecurity Alert Notifications (CSA): Through Mplify’s CSA notification service, enterprises can receive standardized real-time alerts for security threats and posture changes across service providers.
Multi-Provider Provisioning: LSO APIs allow enterprises to provision SD-WAN overlays, Ethernet underlays, or cloud access circuits from different providers via a unified interface. This enables fast scaling across regions and clouds.
GPUaaS: Some enterprises are exploring alternatives for AI training due to cost or data sovereignty. With GPUaaS offers from service providers and pureplay GPUaaS providers, they can request GPU infrastructure, defining clock speed, memory, and more, through LSO APIs. Specs like memory, chipsets, and location are selected programmatically. Mplify demonstrated this use case at Mobile World Congress.
Agentic AI Interaction: AI agents managing distributed workloads like smart checkout or industrial automation can use LSO APIs to reserve bandwidth, increase QoS, or spin up GPU nodes dynamically.
Industry examples:
- Retail: Store-level GPUaaS and edge analytics.
- Manufacturing: Predictive maintenance and automated network tuning.
- Finance: SLA-backed AI workloads in private cloud with real-time observability.
Why Standardization Matters
Without standardized APIs, each provider relationship becomes a unique integration challenge. LSO automation APIs reduce this friction.
Benefits include:
- Common quote, order, and incident flows using shared state machines.
- Consistent fault management across services and providers.
- Consistent fault management across services and providers.
- Reduced onboarding and maintenance time.
Standardization ensures consistency across networks, enabling automation that scales. It also supports AI-readiness, allowing agents and orchestration systems to operate without custom code.
How Mplify Supports the Enterprise
Mplify delivers more than standards, enabling enterprise automation through:
LSO API Payload Factory: Rapid generation of machine-readable service templates including Ethernet, SD-WAN, broadband, GPUaaS, and CIM/CSA notifications.
LSO API Marketplace: A public repository of SDKs, schemas, and payloads that help developers access and implement LSO APIs.
API Certification: A formal process validating that providers implement APIs correctly and support full lifecycle functionality.
Cross-Industry Collaboration: Mplify works with GSMA, CAMARA, TM Forum, and global cloud and network operators to align APIs across domains and ensure interoperability.
Federated Provider Ecosystem: Mplify’s vision is a federated, globally connected NaaS environment where enterprises can provision, observe, and modify services across providers as if they were one.
Enterprise Engagement & the ELC: Mplify’s Enterprise Leadership Council (ELC) is a leadership forum that comprises senior executives (CxOs) from mid-to-large enterprises, for which the network is critical. These leaders drive initiatives in the areas of AI, API automation, and cybersecurity that are most relevant and important for enterprises. The ELC has already helped define services like CIM, CSA, and real-time observability APIs.
How to Get Involved
Enterprises can:
- Influence enterprise related work by joining Mplify and participating in working groups.
- Work with LSO-certified providers or request certification from existing partners.
- Explore SDKs, payloads, and implementation guides in the LSO Marketplace.
- Leverage Mplify sandbox environments to evaluate LSO APIs.
- Join early adopter programs for CIM, CSA, GPUaaS, and AI-OPS.
These channels allow enterprise teams to influence standards, validate interoperability, and align automation initiatives with industry momentum.
Mplify at a Glance:
- Key Enterprise Tools: LSO APIs, CIM, CSA, GPUaaS
- Core Programs: API Payload Factory, Marketplace, API Certification
- Engagement Channels: ELC, working groups, early adopter programs
- Strategic Partners: GSMA, TM Forum, CAMARA, global cloud & service providers
Enterprises cannot automate in silos. LSO APIs close the gap between network services and enterprise automation platforms. They enable real-time orchestration, multi-provider control, and AI-driven adaptability.
Mplify’s framework is collaborative, future-ready, and growing rapidly. With LSO APIs and supporting services like CIM and CSA, enterprises finally have the tools to bring provider integration into the modern age.
Learn More
- See how Mplify helps Enterprises.
- Explore Mplify’s LSO APIs.
- Join peers from Fortune 500 enterprises at Mplify’s next Global NaaS Event.
