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Product Portfolio: Service Standards

MEF and 5G — 2020 Jun

Primary Resource for: 5G

Product Portfolio: 5G

Tags: Mobile Backhaul, Mobile Fronthaul, Network Slicing

Relationship between the work of MEF and 5G technologies

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MEF 22.3.1 MEF 22.3.1 Amendment to MEF 22.3: Transport Services for Mobile Networks — 2020 Apr

Amends: 22.3

Primary Resource for: 5G

Product Portfolio: 5G, Carrier Ethernet

Standard Type: Service Definitions

This amendment specifies changes to the baseline document MEF 22.3 to include the requirements for Ethernet Services that can be used as transport for 5G mobile networks. The services and requirements in this document are based on the Services defined in MEF 6.2 as well as the Service Attributes defined in MEF 10.3.

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Slicing for Shared 5G Fronthaul and Backhaul — 2020 Apr

Primary Resource for: 5G

Product Portfolio: 5G

Tags: Network Slicing, Mobile Backhaul, Mobile Fronthaul

This White Paper introduces the concept of 5G mobile access network sharing and use cases for providing multiple mobile access network services over a common underlying fronthaul and backhaul infrastructure.

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Orchestrated MEF 3.0 Optical Transport Services — 2020 Mar

Primary Resource for: Optical Transport

Product Portfolio: Optical Transport

MEF is the first industry body to publish standards for Optical Transport services and their orchestration.

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MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet Certification Business Case for Service Providers — 2020 Mar

Primary Resource for: Carrier Ethernet, Carrier Ethernet Certification

Product Portfolio: Carrier Ethernet Certification, Carrier Ethernet

Tags: Business Case, Certification

This document focuses on the business case for service providers to certify MEF 3.0 CE services

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MEF 3.0 SD-WAN & SASE – Frequently Asked Questions — 2021 Dec

Primary Resource for: SD-WAN

Product Portfolio: SASE, SD-WAN, Overlay Services

Tags: Certification

MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Services & SASE – Frequently Asked Questions

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MEF 65 MEF 65 Simplified Transit E-Line Service — 2020 Feb

Product Portfolio: Carrier Ethernet

Standard Type: Service Definitions

This MEF Standard specifies a Simplified Transit E-Line (STEL) Service that constrains selected values of the ENNI Common Attributes, ENNI Service Attributes and Operator Ethernet Service Attributes specified in MEF 26.2 to simplify ordering and provisioning for a common case of Transit E-Line Services defined in MEF 51.1.

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MEF 64 MEF 64 Operator Layer 1 Service Attributes and Services — 2020 Feb

Primary Resource for: Optical Transport

Product Portfolio: Optical Transport

Standard Type: Service Attributes

The Service Attributes of an Operator Layer 1 Service observable at a Layer 1 User Network Interface and a Layer 1 External Network Network Interface are defined.

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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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