The MEF is offering unique opportunities to students and graduates to participate in ongoing software and modelling projects that will have profound and immediate impact on the connectivity and cloud services industry. These projects involve many of the MEF's member companies including major global service providers and technology providers, and touch on the latest in standards work including LSO, SDN and NFV.
Interested students, graduates and academic institutions should contact Daniel Bar-Lev.
Projects for Students
These projects can be integrated into one semester university projects for undergraduates with the backing of the student's university or similar academic institution.
JIRA is used to scope out the project for development work in agile methodology (e.g. sprints) and to track the achievements of individual students in such a way that supervisors can assess their success.
All contributions of code by students are under Apache 2.0 licensing (see Code Contribution Agreement)
Requirements for Software Developers
- Studying Information or Computer Science, Telematics, Networking, Internet or Web Engineering
- Practical experience in developing sofware in Java 8
- Prior knowledge of tools like Spring Boot and implementation approaches like Micro-Services
- At least basic knowledge of networking (e.g. Carrier Ethernet, IP, MPLS etc.)
- Preferred: Familiarity with MEF terminology and specs
- Preferred: Experience working with Open Source projects (e.g. OpenStack, OpenDaylight, OPNFV, ON.Lab)
- Preferred: Experience using OpenStack solutions
- Preferred: HCI or User Interface design experience
Current Projects
Inter-Carrier Serviceability
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies that will implement business requirements and processes defined by Service Provider MEF members for checking serviceability of wholesale services (e.g. E-Access and E-Transit) in an M2M environment across open APIs defined by the MEF at LSO Sonata and LSO Interlude.
Inter-Carrier Product Ordering
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies that will implement business requirements and processes defined by Service Provider MEF members for ordering of wholesale services (e.g. E-Access and E-Transit) in an M2M environment across open APIs defined by the MEF at LSO Sonata and LSO Interlude.
Inter-Carrier Product Activation and Configuration
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies that will implement business requirements and processes defined by Service Provider MEF members for activation and configuration of wholesale services (e.g. E-Access and E-Transit) in an M2M environment across open APIs defined by the MEF at LSO Sonata and LSO Interlude .
Inter-Carrier Invoicing
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies that will implement business requirements and processes defined by Service Provider MEF members for invoicing (including billing) of wholesale services (e.g. E-Access and E-Transit) in an M2M environment across open APIs defined by the MEF at LSO Sonata and LSO Interlude.
Inter-Carrier Assurance
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies that will implement business requirements and processes defined by Service Provider MEF members for all aspects of service assurance (e.g. trouble ticketing) of wholesale services (e.g. E-Access and E-Transit) in an M2M environment across open APIs defined by the MEF at LSO Sonata and LSO Interlude.
Inter-Carrier Security
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies that will test the vulnerability of open APIs defined by the MEF at the M2M interfaces between Carriers.
Intra-Carrier Network Data Collection
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies to collect data from networks based on different technology domains (e.g. CORD, Packet WAN, Optical Transport, 5G, SD WAN) for use in assessing the performance of the network as defined in MEF specifications (e.g. MEF 30.1, MEF 35.1)
Inter-Carrier Network Data Collection
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies to collect data from wholesale Operators for use in assessing the performance of the wholesale service as defined in MEF specifications (e.g. MEF 30.1 , MEF 35.1)
LSO Orchestratable SDN Controllers
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies to enable SDN Controllers (e.g. OpenDaylight, ONOS, OpenContrail) to be orchestrated via open APIs at LSO Presto (i.e. develop LSO Presto plugins for Open Source controllers)
LSO Orchestratable NFV Orchestrators
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies to enable NFVOs to be LSO orchestrated (e.g. OPNFV MANO, ETSI MANO)
User Portal
Developers will write code in sprints defined and led by MEF member companies to be used in sample user portals to manage MEF-defined services via open APIs the fulfillment and control phases of a service lifecycle.
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