MEF 2025 Interim Members Meeting Atlanta

Join us in Atlanta for our first Interim Members Meeting of 2025!  

The Interim Members Meeting will focus on cross-project work, planning, and coordination. Topic oriented sessions will combine committees in sessions designed to allow members to contribute to the projects related to their business.

Activities for the Week

Tuesday, 11 February The Opening Plenary will cover MEF plans for 2025, the new MEF membership model, certification, and committee updates.  The plenary will be followed by combined committee sessions to discuss details on cross-committee topics (projects that affect work in other committees), certification planning, and rules and procedures updates.

Wednesday, 12 February and Thursday, 13 February Two tracks each day will facilitate detailed discussions between two committees on continuity of work between them in different areas including NaaS, cybersecurity, L1-L3 connectivity, and LSO automation.

At the Closing Plenary midday Thursday each committee will provide readouts in on the progress of work over the course of the members meeting.

As MEF continues to progress our important industry work, the Interim Member Meeting will center around three key areas:

• Re-orienting member work around topic areas rather than siloing them in each committee.
• Maximizing coordination between committees on work that can impact other committees' work.
• Identifying where gaps exist and need to be addressed in the 'development lifecycle' of a given work area.

Who Attends

• Committee chairs, project leaders, top subject matter experts and MEF senior staff
• Commercial, product, and technical contributors from service, cloud and technology providers, aggregators, systems integrators

Why Attend

• Influence the direction and accelerate progress of work that impacts your company's strategic plans.
• Bring yourself up to speed on MEF work that can impact your company's future revenues and network with the relevant subject matter experts and other leading networking industry professionals in the work areas of interest to your company.
• Maximize the opportunities of your company to position itself as an industry, global, and regional leader by familiarizing yourself with the various MEF programs like certification, marketing, and NaaS federation.

Summary of Discussions and Work

• NaaS
  
  • Six attributes of NaaS and extended features of NaaS
  • NaaS certification framework
  • NaaS Federation
  • Service Access Interface
• Cybersecurity
  • SASE
  • SD-WAN
  • SSE
  • ZTNA
  • Certification of SASE
  • Horizontal integration
• Carrier Ethernet over Broadband
  • Service attributes of Carrier Ethernet over Broadband
  • Standardized LSO Access E-Line over Broadband product
  • Certification of Carrier Ethernet over Broadband service and Access E-Line over Broadband product
• Internet Access
  • Standardized Internet Access product
  • Certification of Internet Access
• Carrier Ethernet
  • New performance tiers
• Wavelength services
  • Standardized wavelength products
  • Certification of wavelength services
• Cross connects
  • Standardized ordering
• Edge compute
  • Standardized ordering
• LSO Business functions
  • Location identity service
  • Enhanced address validation
  • LSO Adapter solution
  • Alignment of data models from order to billing
  • LSO API certification
  • API legal agreement template
  • Rated ordering using smart contracts
• LSO Operational functions
  • Service Function Testing
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Fault Management
• Service Level Agreements
  • Automated SLA Reporting service
  • Standardized SLA terminology and terms
• Notification services for enterprises
  • CIM (Circuit Impairment and Maintenance)
  • CSA (Cybersecurity Alerts)
  • Certification of notification services

Meeting Registration

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