MEF 3.0 Proof of Concept Showcase to host over 50 companies

MEF has announced that more than 50 service providers and technology solution providers will participate in 20 interactive Proof of Concept (PoC) Showcase demonstrations at the MEF18 global networking event from 29 October to 2 November 2018. 

The showcase is expected to show how the MEF 3.0 framework can be orchestrated across a global ecosystem of automated networks and has several themes:

· Automated multidomain, multitechnology service fulfilment and activation

· Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN)

· Service assurance

· Automated commercial interactions

· Universal customer premise equipment (CPEs)

“MEF18 Proof of Concept demonstrations are crucial to accelerating the development and worldwide adoption of assured services orchestrated across automated networks with MEF 3.0,” said Pascal Menezes, CTO, MEF. 

“We are delighted by the tremendous support of leading service and technology solutions providers who are participating in this year’s PoC Showcase. The fact that we have more than double the number of participants compared to last year’s popular showcase illustrates the strategic importance of MEF 3.0 in driving industry innovation.”

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Browse the list of participants and preliminary titles for their demonstrations. A final list will be available in September 2018.

Some of the proofs of concept will include:

· Standardised intercarrier and intracarrier lifecycle service orchestration (LSO) APIs for all aspects of the service lifecycle

· Orchestrated, virtualised Ethernet services using Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP), Disaggregated Network Operating System (DANOS), and white boxes

· Distributed catalogues

· Smart contracts for data-on-demand services

· Distributed ledgers and Blockchain for ordering and billing/settlement

· Multilayer optical/Ethernet services

· Machine learning for service assurance

· Intent-based networking

· 5G and network slicing

· Augmented reality use cases in multi-operator domain environments

· Self-optimising networks

· Dynamic quality of service (QoS) for changing application demands

· Multivendor SD-WAN implementations using LSO

· Secure SD-WAN

· LSO Presto orchestration of universal CPEs for feature and service enhancement