Our rapidly evolving market is based on disruptive technologies like SDN, SD-WAN, and NFV, making it more essential to strengthen the channels of communication between enterprises, service providers, and vendors in order to rapidly provide information and feedback between them on business requirements and use cases,” said Nan Chen, president at MEF. “The MEF EAC brings representatives of the very important enterprise stakeholder group into direct collaborative and real-time engagement opportunities with MEF’s 120+ service provider community, as well as 60+ vendor community. The council will collaborate with MEF and extend our reach to incorporate this critical element of the ecosystem and establish MEF as the enterprise’s trusted advisor in digital transformation.

Digital transformation is happening at every layer of the network, impacting how services are created, delivered, monetized, and consumed,” said Gert Vanderstraeten, network architect, Microsoft's IT Network Infrastructure Services (CCE). “MEF is creating the framework for how automated networks will interoperate, bringing together the brightest minds from the enterprise, service provider, and vendor communities.