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Product Portfolio: Service Standards

Slicing for Shared 5G Fronthaul and Backhaul — 2020 Apr

Primary Resource for: 5G

Product Portfolio: 5G

Tags: Mobile Fronthaul, Network Slicing, Mobile Backhaul

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 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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MEF 48.1 MEF 48.1 Ethernet Service Activation Testing — 2020 Feb

Product Portfolio: Carrier Ethernet

Standard Type: Service Activation and Test

This document specifies the requirements and test methodologies for Service Activation Testing (SAT) of MEF defined E-Line, Access E-Line and Transit E-Line services.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – Digital Services Expertise – New MEF SD-WAN Certified Professional (MEF-SDCP) — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: SD-WAN

Product Portfolio: SD-WAN Certification, SD-WAN

Addressing the skills gap challenge is tantamount to successfully navigating the industry's digital transformation. MEF's SD-WAN Certified Professional designation validates the knowledge required to design, engineer, operate and solution MEF managed SD-WAN services.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – MEF Certification – Accelerating MEF 3.0 Adoption — 2019 Nov

Product Portfolio: SD-WAN, Carrier Ethernet

MEF’s service, technology, and professional certification programs are designed to accelerate availability and adoption of MEF 3.0 solutions and help ensure competitiveness now and in the future. MEF 3.0 certification enables service and technology providers to validate that their solutions comply with the highest industry standards for performance, assurance, and agility.

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