MEF focuses on SD-WAN with LSO and OpenCS

MEF focuses on SD-WAN with LSO and OpenCS

The old Metro Ethernet Forum (now simply MEF) issued a press release to cover a focus on SD-WAN. This covers three areas:

  • Service Implementations using the MEF frameworks
  • Market Education
  • Proof of Concept Demonstrations

Service Implementation

The Service Implementation uses the MEF Lifecycle Service Orchestration Reference Architecture and Framework (LSO) issued as MEF-55. This documents business process flows and the APIs that manage a network during its full lifecycle, and covers service delivery, ordering and billing, security and analytics.

It also covers the MEF OpenCS (Open Connectivity Services), and the SD- elements of OpenCS. These provide a benchmark level of capability for the various APIs implemented with the LSO platform. These deliver SD-WAN assurance, application performance, and security policies, which include telemetry data. Riverbed and Velocloud lead the OpenCS SD-WAN project, with contributions from others.

Market Education

White papers and webinars both cover the market education element.

The white paper is snappily entitled Understanding SD-WAN Managed Services: Service Components, MEF LSO Reference Architecture, and Use Cases.

“MEF's new SD-WAN work will address implementation challenges and accelerate SD-WAN services deployments by creating a common vernacular and service architecture, which have not existed up to this point.” – Ralph Santitoro, Head of SDN/NFV Solutions Practice, Fujitsu.

Ralph is the principal author of MEF's SD-WAN white paper, and a MEF Distinguished Fellow. Other contributors to the paper are Ceragon, /Netcracker, , RAD, Riverbed, Silver Peak, VeloCloud, and MEF's CTO.

A webinar at 11am US ET on 9 August 2017, which will address how MEF are working to address the operational challenges in SD-WANs, helping accelerating service delivery.

Registration for this available on BrightTalk.

Proof of Concept Demonstrations

During MEF17, the annual gathering of the forum participants, demonstrations of SD-WAN will be one of the hot-topics. Workshops and keynotes on the subject will also feature at the global networking event to be held November 13-16 at the Loews Sapphire Falls Resort in Orlando, Florida.

John Dixon

John Dixon is the Principal Consultant of thirteen-ten nanometre networks Ltd, based in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He has a wide range of experience, (including, but not limited to) operating, designing and optimizing systems and networks for customers from global to domestic in scale. He has worked with many international brands to implement both data centres and wide-area networks across a range of industries. He is currently supporting a major SD-WAN vendor on the implementation of an environment supporting a major global fast-food chain.

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