LSO Legato

Intra-domain service orchestration and automation.

MEF LSO Legato APIs

Within the LSO Framework, LSO Legato APIs address the internal intra-domain operational interactions between the business applications (BSS) layer and the underlying service orchestration (OSS) layer for MEF-standardized services, for functionalities such as performance monitoring and fault management. It is these LSO Legato APIs that take a business-level operation, such as ordering a service, and communicates that requirement to the service orchestration layer, to instantiate that service within a provider’s domain.

LSO Legato APIs cover the following functionalities: Service provisioning and control; service function testing; service inventory; service performance monitoring; service fault management.

The related LSO Legato SDK and standards can be used with a range of MEF-standardized services.
See MEF’s Technical Standards & Educational Materials for LSO Legato

Diagram LSO APIs for Operational Automation

LSO Legato Interface Reference Point

LSO Legato is the Interface Reference Point between the business applications (BSS) layer and service orchestration functionality (OSS) layer, supporting the management and operations of a service within a service provider’s domain.

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What Can I Achieve with MEF LSO Legato APIs?

Standard LSO Legato APIs remove the need for each application from having to interface through different vendor-proprietary service orchestration APIs, which in turn enhances service providers’ ability to adopt best-in-breed vendor solutions.

Common information models ease internal development of microservices by eliminating mapping between proprietary models.

MEF LSO Legato API advantages:

  • Reduced product-management costs for technology providers.
  • Lower implementation costs for service providers.
  • Optimized development costs focused on feature/function versus integration.
  • Faster service implementation.
  • Lower total cost of ownership for service providers.

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Technical Standards & SDKs:

LSO Framework Release ‘Grace’ — 2023 Dec

Product Portfolio: LSO Cantata, LSO Allegro, LSO Sonata, LSO Legato, LSO Presto, LSO Interlude

This release advances the Business Requirements and APIs for Product Catalog, Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery, Performance Monitoring and Streaming Management.

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LSO Framework Release ‘Fergie’ — 2023 Jun

Product Portfolio: LSO Cantata, LSO Allegro, LSO Sonata, LSO Legato, LSO Presto, LSO Interlude

The theme of this release is the complete Business APIs Suite (by adding Product Catalog and Product Offering Availability and Pricing Discovery APIs). It also enriches the Operational API Suite by adding Performance Monitoring and Passive Statistics and Streaming Management.

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LSO Framework Release ‘Ella’ — 2023 Jan

Product Portfolio: LSO Cantata, LSO Sonata, LSO Legato, LSO Presto

The theme of this release is the Introduction of LSO Operational APIs and it also introduces the Billing API. Three APIs and Developer Guides: Product Order Management, Trouble Ticketing, and LSO API Security Profile are now finalized standards, and six additional are in Letter Ballot.

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LSO Framework Release ‘Dolly’ — 2022 Jun

Product Portfolio: LSO Cantata, LSO Sonata, LSO Legato, LSO Presto

The theme of this release is Internet Access and adds APIs for Appointment and Work Order. 5 APIs and Developer Guides: Address, Site, POQ, Quote, and Inventory are now finalized standards.

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LSO Framework Release ‘Celine’ — 2022 Jan

Product Portfolio: LSO Legato, LSO Sonata, LSO Presto

The theme of this release is Ordering and Inventory: it delivers full coverage of Business Requirements, API and API Developer Guides for Ordering and Inventory API functions. NOTE: Some parts of the release are for MEF Members only.

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LSO Framework Release ‘Billie’ — 2021 Jun

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata, LSO Legato, LSO Presto

The theme of this release is Ordering and Inventory: it delivers full coverage of Business Requirements, API and API Developer Guides for Ordering and Inventory API functions. NOTE: Some parts of the release are for MEF Members only.

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MEF 135 LSO Legato Service Inventory Management API – Developer Guide — 2023 Oct

Product Portfolio: LSO Legato

This standard is intended to assist the implementation of the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the Service Inventory function of the Service Orchestration Functionality at the LSO Legato Interface Reference Point.

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MEF 99 LSO Service Ordering Management API Developer Guide — 2023 Oct

Product Portfolio: LSO Legato

This standard is intended to assist the implementation of the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the Service Provisioning function of the Service Orchestration Functionality at the LSO Legato Interface Reference Point.

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MEF 136 Allegro, Interlude and Legato Service Function Testing Business Requirements & Use Cases — 2023 Apr

Product Portfolio: LSO Allegro, LSO Legato, LSO Interlude

This document defines the Business Requirements and Use Cases to support Service Function Testing (SFT) at the Allegro, Interlude, and Legato Interface Reference Points.

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MEF 133 Allegro, Interlude and Legato Fault Management and Performance Monitoring BR&UC — 2023 Feb

Product Portfolio: LSO Allegro, LSO Legato, LSO Interlude

This document defines the Business Requirements and Use Cases to support Performance Moni-toring at the Allegro, Interlude and Legato Interface Reference Points (IRPs).

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