As enterprises navigate increasingly complex hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments, they need trusted, standardized solutions to drive automation, agility, and security. MEF provides a strategic partnership for enterprise IT leaders to collaborate with industry leaders, influence MEF work, and confidently adopt new technologies, streamline operations, and lead digital transformation initiatives.
Backed by MEF’s global ecosystem of service providers, technology companies, and systems integrators, MEF delivers standards-based APIs, certifications, and peer collaboration that enable enterprises to deploy secure, resilient, and automated network services aligned with their business goals.
Connect with the enterprise leaders and changemakers who are amplifying NaaS.
MEF invites senior executives from mid-to-large enterprises to join MEF’s Enterprise Leadership Council (ELC) to work side-by-side with MEF Board members and the MEF Technology Advisory Board (TAB).
Through the ELC, these executives work directly with MEF to shape priorities and deliver impactful outcomes—from cybersecurity-alerting standards to advanced service-performance APIs.
The CIM Service API automates real-time notifications of network impairments and maintenance activities—replacing today’s slow, manual communications between enterprise IT teams and service providers.
Developed in collaboration with the Enterprise Leadership Council, CIM is part of MEF’s offering of Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) automation APIs that empower enterprise systems to interact directly with service provider networks—enhancing resiliency, visibility, and decision-making across your infrastructure.
CIM is designed for seamless integration into existing network-management systems and can be specified in RFPs and RFIs.
MEF CIM Service API offers:
In today’s threat landscape, real-time security intelligence sharing is critical. MEF’s CSA Notifications Service enables standardized communication of security events between service providers (sellers) and enterprises (buyers).
By automating incident reporting and response, the CSA service helps enterprise security teams act faster and minimize potential disruption—a critical pillar of MEF’s support for SASE, Zero Trust, and SSE frameworks.
Using a standardized API interface, enterprises can:
Enterprises individually face the third largest economy of the world after those of the US and China—the cybercrime economy that is growing 15% each year. It was a $3 trillion industry in 2015 and will grow to a $10.5 trillion industry by 2025. The cybercrime economy already costs the real and productive global economy a trillion dollars in damages annually.
Enterprises also face a bewildering range of cybersecurity technology solutions that tackle different layers and areas of the cyberthreat landscape, as well as increasing demands for compliance from regulators, shareholders, and insurance companies while maintaining the performance of the critical business applications.
In response to these major challenges for enterprises worldwide, leading cybersecurity and application assurance technology providers have helped MEF to develop and publish industry standards and drive a new, modular MEF SASE Certification program. Together, these standards and certification program help enterprises maintain application performance and protect business and customer data in the constantly evolving worlds of cybercrime and cybersecurity.
SASE Certification = SD-WAN Certification + SSE Certification + Zero Trust Certification
SASE = Application Assurance + Cybersecurity
MEF’s SASE certification is an aggregate of the certification of the underlying components of:
While service provider buy- and sell-side partners are leading the adoption of standardized LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration) APIs, enterprises can also benefit by using these APIs to automate business and operational functions with their retail service providers.Enterprises can leverage LSO APIs to seamlessly integrate their internal automation systems and applications with service provider networks. This approach gives them greater control, flexibility, and visibility over their NaaS environments, while eliminating the need for proprietary APIs.
Multiple enterprises already are using LSO APIs to order Ethernet connectivity services and receive performance information from their provider. Adoption is expected to accelerate as more service providers introduce LSO APIs to enterprises in support of NaaS offerings and more enterprises discover the availability of LSO APIs to support digital transformation.
MEF Enterprise Membership brings together enterprise leaders and MEF members to accelerate digital transformation through innovation, collaboration, and standardization.
MEF participation can help your enterprise to accelerate digital transformation, improve market positioning, and uncover new revenue opportunities. Whether you’re solving for security, multi-cloud performance, or network automation, MEF helps enterprises lead with confidence.
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