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Product Portfolio: APIs

Business and Operational Aspects of Implementing LSO Sonata — 2020 Feb

Also See: The Case for Standardized and Automated Inter-Provider Business Interface

Primary Resource for: LSO Sonata

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata, Carrier Ethernet

This White Paper is aimed at service providers that have made a decision to create a standardized zero-touch/automated inter-provider commercial and business interface based on MEF’s extensive LSO Sonata APIs and underlying standards.

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MEF 81.0.1 MEF 81.0.1 Amendment to MEF 81: Product Inventory Management — 2020 Feb

Amends: 81

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata

Standard Type: MEF Service Lifecycle

This amendment addresses seven known issues with MEF 81.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – Intra-Provider Automation with LSO APIs – LSO Presto & LSO Legato — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: LSO Legato, LSO Presto

Product Portfolio: Intra-Provider APIs

MEF's intra-domain service and network orchestration is addressed by the North-South APIs, including LSO Presto, LSO Legato and LSO Adagio. Here the key elements of LSO Presto and LSO Legato which interface from the business layer through to the domain controller layer of service provider's domain are detailed.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – Automation of LSO APIs Using Intent-Based Networking — 2019 Nov

Product Portfolio: APIs

MEF’s initial Intent-Based Networking (IBN) work aims to enable an SD-WAN service subscriber to set intent-related performance and security objectives and have those be translated into granular technical policies at the network level.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – Inter-Provider Automation – LSO Sonata Roadmap & Use Cases — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: LSO Sonata

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata

LSO Sonata is the corner-stone effort of inter-provider service automation, enabling service provider partners to use automation to manage their service-oriented business functions, from serviceability to order. Initial service automation is focused on MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet services, delivering increased business velocity for the service provider and its enterprise customers.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – MEF 3.0 LSO Sonata Certification — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: LSO Sonata

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata

MEF LSO Sonata Certification will enable the verification and resulting business velocity to inter-provider service automation by establishing and validating adherence to the LSO Sonata API standards.

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MEF 3.0 Workshop – End-to-End Service Automation – LSO Framework and API Standardization — 2019 Nov

Primary Resource for: LSO Interlude

Product Portfolio: APIs, LSO Interlude

MEF’s LSO Reference Architecture guides agile development of standardized LSO APIs that enable end-to-end automation of MEF 3.0 services across multiple providers and over multiple network technology domains (e.g., Optical Transport, CE, IP, 5G, etc.).

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MEF 79 MEF 79 Address, Service Site, and Product Offering Qualification Management – Requirements and Use Cases — 2019 Nov

Amendments: 81 , 81

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata

Standard Type: MEF Service Lifecycle

This document identifies the common attributes and processes needed to support Address, Service Site and Product Offering Qualification (POQ) operations across the Sonata Management Interface Reference Point (IRP).

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MEF 81 MEF 81 Product Inventory Management – Requirements and Use Cases — 2019 Nov

Amendments: 81

Product Portfolio: LSO Sonata

Standard Type: MEF Service Lifecycle

This document identifies the common Product Inventory attributes and processes needed to support inter-carrier retrieval of Product Inventory. This document supports the requirements defined in the MEF Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) Reference Architecture and Framework (MEF 55) requirements for Inventory over the Sonata interface (Service Provider <-> Partner interactions).

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MEF 86 MEF 86 Presto Service OAM Interface Profile Specification — 2019 Sep

Product Portfolio: Carrier Ethernet, LSO Presto

Standard Type: Information and Data Models

This Interface Profile Specification specifies Presto Management Interface for SOAM (Service Operations, Administration and Maintenance) in support of performance and fault management of MEF Network Resource Provisioning (NRP) activated resources.

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