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Product Portfolio: Underlay Services

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 – 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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MEF 3.0 Workshop – MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet Certification — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: Carrier Ethernet, Carrier Ethernet Certification

Product Portfolio: Carrier Ethernet Certification, Carrier Ethernet

MEF's Carrier Ethernet certification has enabled the accelerated adoption and growth behind the $60 Billion dollar Carrier Ethernet services market by ensuring the delivered services and technology comply with the industry best-practices inherent in MEF's Carrier Ethernet standards.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – MEF & 5G: Orchestrating 5G Services — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: 5G

Product Portfolio: 5G

Following a brief introduction on 5G, the presentation covers the following main topics (beginning at 6:03): Transport for 5G, Orchestrating 5G services, 5G network slices, MEF Services over 5G network slices

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – MEF 3.0 Optical Transport Services — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: Optical Transport

Product Portfolio: Optical Transport

In 2018, MEF published its first Optical Transport services standard (MEF 63) for subscriber services that support Ethernet and Fibre Channel client protocols as well as SONET/SDH client protocols for legacy WAN services.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – MEF 3.0 IP Services — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: IP

Product Portfolio: IP

In May 2019, MEF published its IP Service Attributes (MEF 61.1) standard that is a foundational step for defining standardized MEF 3.0 IP services that can be orchestrated across multiple service providers.

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