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In September 2020, NTT Communications, Netcracker, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, and ADVA joined together to explore the role and technical feasibility of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) offering managed edge cloud services and connectivity to enterprises and industry verticals. The resulting PoC is built around MEF’s LSO framework. They discuss the rationale, goals, and approach the team took. Read More
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Gartner defined the convergence between networking and security that introduced the SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) paradigm as: “A service connecting users (machine or human) with their applications in the cloud while providing connectivity performance and security assurance determined by policies set by the Subscriber.” Silvia Marigonda of Sparkle discusses a MEF-defined SASE service for remote employee access to multiple public clouds. Read More
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AT&T, Ericsson, and VMware joined together to explore how AT&T SD-WAN, with VMware and 5G, can utilize a powerful hosted gateway and scalable architecture coupled with Ericsson’s multi-environment deployment capable dynamic orchestration platform. Vinayak Mohite discusses the benefits of combining SD-WAN and 5G and how they enhance the network experience. Read More
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As network and security boundaries morph, and converge into a single managed SASE Service offering from the cloud, AT&T, Cisco, and Ericsson, collaborate to address the challenges by utilizing a combination of AT&T’s network infrastructure, Cisco’s SD-WAN and security solutions, and Ericsson’s vendor agnostic orchestration platform in this pivotal use case. Read More
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In MEF 3.0 PoC (106), we endeavour to demonstrate how two important new concepts—SASE Services and Lean NFV—can make working remotely safe and painless, for both the employee and the enterprise that hires them. Read More
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MEF 3.0 PoC (136) explores how two rising technologies, SD-WAN and Kubernetes, relate and the benefits that arise from deeper integration between them, from within the perspective of the MEF 3.0 SD-WAN standardization initiatives. Read More
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To illustrate this AI/ML-based use case, MEF 3.0 PoC (138) is implementing what we term ‘extreme slicing’ over 5G to a MEC, to support both facial recognition and fish recognition along the coastline in Okinawa, Japan, protecting these scarce marine resources. Read More
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Introducing the MEF-SDCP Self Study Portal and MEF Professional Certification Corporate Program, both designed to enable individuals and companies to quickly and cost-effectively achieve their MEF Professional Certification objectives. Read More
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David Strauss, of the company, Broadband Success Partners, highlights a recent research study involving 24 executives from 11 MSOs who shared their views on edge computing, including company-related drivers, opportunities, and challenges. Read More
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MEF’s Smart Bilaterals promise major advances in cryptography, messaging, and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) that make it possible to deliver secure and private synchronization of systems of record between telecoms that is cost-effective, dynamic, and automated—by establishing a DLT-based shared ledger. Read More