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2022 trends impacting service providers (Reader Forum)

The spectacular growth of online shopping and remote working in 2020 and 2021 thanks to the pandemic translated into almost nonchalant acceptance of the idea of home delivery of all manner of goods, meals and even drinks, and the dramatic decline of commuting to...

Neustar Webinar: Now is the time to jumpstart your Digital Transformation initiative

  As operators build out their 5G networks, the need to effectively manage their access networks and develop new solutions is critical. Digital Transformation has become a nebulous term due to overuse and vague promises. Join us and we will explore how carriers are improving efficiency...

MEF on 5G deployment considerations and automating lifecycle service orchestration

Because there is no single standard 5G network architecture, there is a lot for an operator to consider Communications industry association MEF has roots in mobile transport and mobile backhaul. But, according to MEF Board Member Rami Yaron, as new use cases are introduced in...

MEF releases service orchestration specifications for 3.0 framework

MEF announces two new specifications for MEF 3.0 framework The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a nonprofit international industry consortium, recently released two new specifications related to the MEF 3.0 framework. According to the organization, the specifications, dubbed Information Model (MEF 59) and Interface Profile Specification...

Verizon, Colt demonstrate inter-carrier SDN orchestration

Verizon and Colt make step toward real-time, cross carrier network automation Verizon and Colt reportedly demonstrated two-way, inter carrier Software Defined Networking (SDN) orchestration by making near real-time bandwidth changes in each other’s production networks. SDN is an architecture that has come to prominence as an...

MEF widens cloud app reach with IMTC integration

MEF casts wider net in cloud app market with IMTC Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a nonprofit international industry consortium, is seeking to make a splash in booming cloud-centric applications market by integrating the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) into its new Applications Committee, which formally...

International connectivity key to Amdocs intercarrier service orchestration solution

Amdocs launches new intercarrier service orchestration tool Amdocs, a software and services provider to communications and media companies, rolled out a new intercarrier service orchestration solution, which enables Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to automate traffic scaling across multiple carrier networks. The offering addresses issues CPS's face...

Open source virtualization gains momentum with MEF, ONAP partnership

MEF and ONAP join forces to develop LSO framework for physical and virtual network functions Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) recently announced it is collaborating with the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) to explore how automation and orchestration can provision software-driven domains leveraging applications program interfaces...

AT&T, Orange, Colt, MEF and TM Forum target SDN API standards

AT&T is part of a group looking to tackle SDN standards, though the carrier’s AIC deployment looks to be behind schedule. Looking to push the pace of development and adoption of software-defined networking services, a cadre of companies and organization led by...

Former ONF executive director Dan Pitt joins MEF

Pitt named SVP at MEF, where he is set to expand the organization’s reach into SDN and NFV in support of MEF Third Network vision. Networking trade group MEF said it has hired former Open Networking Foundation Executive Director Dan Pitt to...