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Product Portfolio: APIs

MEF 78.1 MEF 78.1 MEF Core Model (MCM) — 2020 Jul

Primary Resource for: Models

Product Portfolio: Models

Standard Type: Information and Data Models

This specification defines the MEF Core Information Model (MCM), which is an information model describing the base set of object definitions and relationships supporting the concepts de-fined in the MEF Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) Reference Architecture (RA)

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SDK R4 LSO Legato SDK Release Candidate 4 — 2020 Jul

Primary Resource for: LSO Legato

Product Portfolio: LSO Legato

MEF LSO Legato SDK core includes API definitions for the following functional areas:
• Service Catalog
• Service Ordering
• Service Inventory
• Service Notification

In addition to the Service Provisioning APIs, the SDK includes the following MEF Service Specification schemas:
• SD-WAN Services
• Carrier Ethernet Services
• L1 Connectivity Services

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Simplifying NFV Operations in the WAN with LSO and Lean NFV — 2020 Jun

Product Portfolio: Intra-Provider APIs

Tags: NFV

This document is aimed at Information and Communications Technology Service Providers (ICT-SPs) that are experiencing challenges scaling adoption of NFV in their WAN infrastructure.

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MEF LSO Sonata APIs – Frequently Asked Questions — 2021 Nov

Primary Resource for: LSO Sonata

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata

MEF LSO Sonata APIs – Frequently Asked Questions

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Standardized VNF License Management Framework — 2020 Apr

Product Portfolio: Intra-Provider APIs

Tags: NFV, VNF

This White Paper is aimed at Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and their VNF vendors who are currently challenged with introducing large numbers of VNFs into the Service Provider’s environment due to high overhead involved in agreeing and managing VNF licenses.

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The Case for Standardized and Automated Inter-Provider Business Interface — 2020 Feb

Also See: Business and Operational Aspects of Implementing LSO Sonata

Primary Resource for: LSO Sonata

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata, Carrier Ethernet

This paper is aimed at those decision makers within ICT-SPs (Information and Communications Technologies Service Providers including traditional telcos, MSOs, MNOs, cloud operators and other entities involved in wholesale supply of data services) and their wholesale data services partners that are discussing adoption of standardized and automated inter-provider business interfaces.

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Business and Operational Aspects of Implementing LSO Sonata — 2020 Feb

Also See: The Case for Standardized and Automated Inter-Provider Business Interface

Primary Resource for: LSO Sonata

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata, Carrier Ethernet

This White Paper is aimed at service providers that have made a decision to create a standardized zero-touch/automated inter-provider commercial and business interface based on MEF’s extensive LSO Sonata APIs and underlying standards.

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MEF 81.0.1 MEF 81.0.1 Amendment to MEF 81: Product Inventory Management — 2020 Feb

Amends: 81

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata

Standard Type: MEF Service Lifecycle

This amendment addresses seven known issues with MEF 81.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – Intra-Provider Automation with LSO APIs – LSO Presto & LSO Legato — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: LSO Legato, LSO Presto

Product Portfolio: Intra-Provider APIs

MEF's intra-domain service and network orchestration is addressed by the North-South APIs, including LSO Presto, LSO Legato and LSO Adagio. Here the key elements of LSO Presto and LSO Legato which interface from the business layer through to the domain controller layer of service provider's domain are detailed.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – Automation of LSO APIs Using Intent-Based Networking — 2019 Nov

Product Portfolio: APIs

MEF’s initial Intent-Based Networking (IBN) work aims to enable an SD-WAN service subscriber to set intent-related performance and security objectives and have those be translated into granular technical policies at the network level.

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