LSO Sonata

MEF continues to be the driving force in the service-provider community, bringing standardization of specifications promoting carrier interoperability of next generation services like Ethernet and SD-WAN. AT&T is pleased to be part of this effort and we are continually implementing these specifications to enable on-demand services, drive complexity out of our processes, and lower our operating costs. Today’s announcement demonstrates that LSO Sonata APIs have arrived, and it’s incumbent upon all of us in the service-provider community to implement them in the same standardized fashion to ensure cross-carrier interoperability.

Roman Pacewicz

Chief Product Officer, AT&T Business (formerly)

(MEF PR, June 2019)

Colt has been a key supporter and driver of the MEF LSO Sonata standard since its inception. We see this standard as being critical for the evolution of Colt’s On Demand offering, which allows customers to take full control of their network, by managing service quoting, activation and assurance all via an online portal or via APIs. The LSO Sonata standard allows us to extend the service beyond the Colt network boundaries onto third party carrier networks. We are excited to see what can be done as this standard continues to evolve, and we feel proud to have shown the transformative nature of the LSO Sonata APIs in our industry-first production deployment with AT&T.

Mirko Voltolini

Head of Network On Demand, Colt

(MEF PR, June 2020)

I think the biggest thing coming up for us, for the industry, was the announcement that we made with AT&T in of terms of the first API that follows the MEF standards. Now that we've got Colt and AT&T, our goal for this year, and certainly into next year, is to get as many carriers—on a global basis—to join that API capability, because that'll speed up everything for not only the carriers but for the customers as well. I also think that that's another major step along the way for SDN. We'll continue to build out SDN, but the API plays a critical role in that scenario as well. For this year and next year, we will be building out that API capability with other carriers.

Carl Grivner

CEO, Colt Technology Services

(Fierce Telecom, July 2019)

Sparkle is a strong supporter of the evolution underway of the interaction process between partner carriers to accelerate time to market and improve customer experience. Having this clear objective, we are fully committed to implement Sonata APIs in production, for both seller and buyer roles, within June 2020. At the same time, we are actively working to empower selected partner providers with a plug & play Sonata-enabling technology to expand the ecosystem with the aim to offer customers a consistent experience throughout Sparkle’s extended footprint.

Mario Di Mauro

CEO, Sparkle

(MEF PR, June 2020)

We at PCCW Global are very pleased to be one of the first few services providers to have production-ready MEF 3.0 LSO Sonata APIs for serviceability, quoting and ordering of Ethernet services. These APIs are proving to be very useful when it comes to dealing with high volume transactional elements of the telecoms business. LSO Sonata APIs are vital in an inter-carrier, automated services environment where our customers are expecting to order and consume network services in real-time and on-demand, such as that offered by Console Connect. We foresee that a wider adoption of these standardized Sonata APIs would help the ICT community as a whole and pave the path to common information modeling and automated commercial settlements among them.

Frederick Chui

Chief Commercial Officer, PCCW Global

(MEF PR, June 2020)

HGC is a firm believer in standards that drive consistent and repeatable collaboration between carriers. LSO Sonata enables HGC to access markets faster and to integrate our core platforms with other carriers to provide frictionless customer experience. Such seamless integration would enable HGC to achieve our vision of digital customer journeys, improve our productivity and further down the road, make inclusion of new business models possible.

Jacqueline Teo

Chief Digital Officer, HGC Global Communications

(MEF PR, June 2020)

We’re expecting two benefits [from LSO Sonata APIs]…agility to our customers and efficiency. On agility, we are envisioning that we can complete the evolution of our network and systems to provide…automated services for our customers. On efficiency, this is something all carriers are looking for every day and every year…This is a way to get efficiency and to skip human intervention in some low-value activities, avoid errors, and dedicate our resources, our teams, to more valued activities.

Juan Carlos Bernal

CEO International Wholesale Business, Telefónica International Wholesale Services

(ITW Global Leaders’ Forum Panel, June 2019)

Orange is pleased to be part of the early adopters of MEF 3.0 LSO Sonata. The integration of these APIs into our on-demand services will provide efficiency and thus simplify cooperation between operators on existing and new on-demand services. Because digital transformation is growing at such an incredible pace, here at Orange we are convinced that automation is a key element in customer experience!

Emmanuel Rochas

CEO, Orange International Carriers

(MEF PR, June 2019)

At Infonas, our focus has been on transforming and evolving our commercial interactions; and MEF's LSO Sonata has been our go-to framework for sales & B2B workflow automation. For us, it is not only about instant on-line quoting, but rather evolving to a flexible and sustainable business model to efficiently and rapidly deliver (or procure) connectivity to any location around the world.

Rafik Shafik

CTO, Infonas

(MEF PR, June 2020)

Certified MEF 3.0 LSO Sonata APIs will be the critical enabler for orchestrating MEF 3.0 services—starting with Carrier Ethernet and extending to SD-WAN, Optical Transport, and IP—across a global federation of automated networks.

Pascal Menezes

CTO, MEF

(MEF PR, June 2019)

MEF has leveraged the natural extension capability of the TM Forum Open APIs to enable the LSO Sonata SDKs. This is a great example of industry partnership and application of the common core capabilities of the Forum Open APIs, which enable interoperability and connectivity across all technologies and services in open digital ecosystems.

Nik Willetts

CEO, TM Forum

(MEF PR, October 2017)

The top business driver for service providers migrating to new dynamic network offerings is the ability to provision services faster and more efficiently for their customers, according to results of the 2018 MEF-Vertical Systems Group survey. Standardized LSO Sonata APIs help service providers achieve this goal by automating the business-to-business interactions that take place in multi-provider environments. From our survey, the two most important benefits of implementing LSO Sonata APIs are to reduce the time from serviceability to activation and to improve quality of experience for customers.

Rosemary Cochran

Principal Analyst & Co-Founder, Vertical Systems Group

(MEF PR, October 2018)