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MEF is the driving force enabling agile, assured, and orchestrated communications services across a global ecosystem of automated networks. MEF 3.0 services are optimized for the digital economy.
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We spotlight videos and articles on the transition to MEF 3.0 services that provide unprecedented user- and application-directed control over network resources and service capabilities.
TECHNICAL SPECS
MEF Committees have published 60 technical specifications and implementation agreements to effect interoperability, increase operational efficiency, and accelerate industry innovation.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
The MEF's Professional Certification program identifies the industry's leading professionals and showcases expertise and excellence in technological knowledge and ...
SERVICES CERTIFICATION
The MEF Services Certification Program enables service providers to certify that their Carrier Ethernet services comply with the highest industry standards
TECHNOLOGY CERTIFICATION
The MEF Equipment Certification Program enables network equipment manufacturers to certify that their Carrier Ethernet products comply with the relevant MEF specifications...
WEBINARS
MEF hosts webinars on the transformational journey to dynamic MEF 3.0 services delivered over automated, virtualized, and interconnected networks powered by LSO, SDN, and NFV.
SEMINARS
Our Seminars provide an overview of key MEF 3.0 work areas, including: (1) standardized, orchestrated services, (2) open LSO APIs, (3) agile service & technology certification, (4) 5G, and (5) expanded community activities.
MEF18
MEF is please to host the MEF18 global networking event, 29 October - 2 November 2018, Los Angeles, CA. MEF18 focuses on enabling agile, assured, and orchestrated services for the digital economy.
Get Ready For MEF18!
MEF18 focuses on enabling agile, assured, and orchestrated communications services for the digital economy. Emerging “MEF 3.0” services provide an on-demand experience with user- and application-directed control over network resources and service capabilities. They are delivered across a global ecosystem of automated networks powered by LSO, SDN, and NFV.
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MEF Announces MEF3.0
MEF 3.0 Transformational Global Services Framework for defining, delivering, and certifying agile, assured, and orchestrated communication services across a global ecosystem of automated networks. MEF 3.0 services empower users with the dynamic performance and security required to thrive in the digital economy. MEF 3.0 blends sophisticated, standardized services with an emerging suite of LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration) APIs to provide an on-demand, cloud-centric experience with unprecedented user- and application-directed control over network resources and service capabilities.
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MEF17 Plenary Videos
MEF is pleased to share a full set of 23 videos from the MEF17 event morning plenaries held on 14 & 15 November. These videos represent an extraordinary window into the state of the industry and are a gold mine of information and insight from top experts who are reshaping the communications landscape.
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Specifications published by MEF are intended for general distribution to the public and may be downloaded from this site and reproduced without charge.
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Managed Access E-Line Service Implementation Agreement
This document defines a MAEL Service to allow a SP/SO to monitor services by utilizing a standard set of management capabilities, including SOAM FM, SOAM PM, and Latching Loop-back, in the MAEL Operator’s network. By leveraging management capabilities in the MAEL Operator’s network, a MAEL Service is intended to eliminate the need for the SP/SO to deploy hardware at the Subscriber’s location.
IP Service Attributes for Subscriber IP Services
This document is the first MEF IP Services specification. It specifies Service Attributes for de-scribing Subscriber IP Services and is consistent with IETF STD 5 [77]. MEF Subscriber IP Services are IP Services described using the Service Attributes and includes private cloud access, Internet access, and managed VPN services. The specification does not discuss Internet peering between ISPs, it focuses on services for unicast traffic. Multicast traffic may covered in future revision. IPv4, IPv6 and “dual stack” services are supported.
Implementation Agreement – Transport Services for Mobile Networks
This document identifies the requirements for MEF Ethernet Services and MEF External Interfaces (EIs such as User-Network Interface (UNI)s) for use in Mobile Backhaul networks based on MEF specifications. In addition, new interface and service attributes have been specified where needed. The services and requirements in this Implementation Agreement (IA) are based on the services defined in MEF 6.2 [3], MEF 33[27] and MEF 51 [30] as well as the attributes in MEF 10.3 [7], MEF 26.2 [24] and this IA. The aim is to be flexible to support a wide range of Ethernet service based mobile network deployments.
Network Resource Provisioning Interface Profile Specification
The Interface Profile Specification defines the requirements, use cases, realized classes, network resource interfaces and associated operations/parameters, state machines, and sequence diagrams that describe the behavior of the Presto NRP interface.
Network Resource Management - Information Model: Connectivity
This specification describes the MEF Network Resource Management Information Model (NRM IM). Lifecycle Service Orchestration Reference Architecture (LSO RA, MEF 55 [10]) extends the tra-ditional MEF scope concerning Service Modeling, from a pure view “from outside the network” to cover a range of Operational, Orchestration, and Network Management behaviors, including SDN and NFV paradigms.
Legato - EVC Services YANG - Service Configuration & Activation
This document specifies the YANG modules for MEF 6.2 EVC based Services and MEF 10.3 Ethernet Services Attributes. These modules are for use in Service Orchestration Function (SOF) and to communicate the configuration state for Service attributes and values with other entities, such as Business Applications or Partners or Customers, specified in MEF 55 Lifecycle Ser-vice Orchestration Reference Architecture. One use of these modules is for the use cases at Le-gato reference point for Service Configuration and Activation (SCA) specified in MEF 56 SCA (Legato) Interface Profile specification. The elements of the YANG modules are aligned with the objects identified in MEF 7.3 Carrier Ethernet Service Information Model.