MEF 55.1 Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO): Reference Architecture and Framework

LSO is an agile approach to streamlining and automating the service lifecycle in a sustainable fash-ion for coordinated management and control across all network domains responsible for delivering an end-to-end Service (e.g., Carrier Ethernet as defined in MEF 6.3, IP VPN as defined in MEF 61.1, Layer 1 as defined in MEF 63, SD-WAN as defined in MEF 70, Cloud Services, etc.). This document describes a Reference Architecture and Framework for orchestrating the service lifecycle. It includes a set of functional management entities that enable cooperative ser-vice lifecycle orchestration for Services. The framework also provides high level functional re-quirements and outlines high level operational threads describing orchestrated Service behavior as well as interactions among management and control entities. The Management Interface Reference Points that characterize interactions between LSO functional management entities are identified in the reference architecture. These Management Interface Reference Points are described such that they can be realized by Interface Profiles and further by APIs, which can be used to enable auto-mated and orchestrated Services.