Sponsored by:

Bruno GiguèreDirector, Product Marketing, MEF

MEF Reference Implementations: Accelerating Adoption of

Third Network Services and LSO

25 min

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MEF Development Model

Liaisons to SDOs

Open Source Projects

Collaboration

MEF Agile Development LifecycleMEF Committees

Accelerator

MEF ReferenceImplementations

PlatformMEF Dev.

Community

Marketing

ServicesOperations

Orchestration

Technical and Operations

ServicesTechnologiesProfessionals

Certification

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MEF’s Inter-operator APIs and Open InitiativesInter-Operator

Open APIsService Orchestration

Service Orchestration

Service Orchestration

Inter-OperatorOpen APIs

ServiceabilityOrdering

Address Validation… Others

Technology Domain Technology Domain Technology Domain

Services

Orchestrated Services

E-Line E-LAN E-Tree E-AccessSECaaS

E-Transit

Internet Access L3 VPNs IP TransitWavelength

AppServices

AT&T Announcement

MEF & TM Forum Announcement

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• Nature of OpenLSO:– A MEF-facilitated open service orchestration ecosystem– Collaboration environment for MEF member companies to maximize

the alignment of market implementations of LSO– Both Open Source and proprietary components using MEF-defined LSO

specifications to foster best-of-breed solutions

• Objectives– Simplify and accelerate adoption of LSO specs for orchestration of

Third Network services– Iterative work towards APIs that are standardized and open– Maximize alignment of LSO specifications and Open Source code for

consistency with LSO use cases and capabilities– Low-risk experience, rapid feedback, agile development

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OpenLSO Capabilities – Analytics and Assurance Projects

• Reference implementation of LSO Analytics using the PNDA.io analytics platform

• To demonstrate analytics as part of Third Network services user stories

• Feed requirements into specifications work in MEF

• Supports other LSO capabilities such as LSO Assurance and LSO Performance

• Aims to demonstrate examples of these inter-relationships via the LSO sub-architecture

Customer Application Coordinator

PartnerSOF

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Network Level Orchestration Open APIs

MEF’s Intra-operator APIs and Open Initiatives

Fulfillment Performance Policy

Control Assurance Usage

Security

Analytics

Service Orchestration

Technology Domains

Service Level Orchestration Open APIs

Open APIs

NFVData Center Packet WAN Optical TransportSD-WAN Cloud Exchange 5G Wireless

Services

Orchestrated Services

E-Line E-LAN E-Tree E-AccessSECaaS

E-Transit

Internet Access L3 VPNs IP TransitWavelength

AppServices

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• Nature of OpenCS

– OpenCS is a MEF-facilitated ecosystem that provides reference implementations of MEF-defined connectivity services (e.g. E-Line)

– Uses combinations of open source and proprietary components and CE 2.0-certified network devices

• Objective

– Simplify and accelerate adoption of MEF specs to develop Third Network services based on any infrastructure

• Any combination of SDN controllers, NFV infrastructure, VNFs, white boxes and traditional PNFs

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OpenCS – SD-WAN Use Case

• The OpenCS SD-WAN project is creating for service providers reference SD-WAN implementations that can be service orchestrated by LSO (MEF-defined Lifecycle Service Orchestration) and integrated into multi-operator agile, assured and orchestrated end to end L2 and L3 services.

Load Bal.

Central Office, Data Center or Head End

CPE

Presto APIs

SD-WANController

GW

UNI

SDNSwitch

CE 2.0 / MPLS

Self-serviceWeb Portal

SDNController SDN

SwitchNFV

MANO

UNI

SD-WAN

SD-WAN

Internet

RO - Resource OrchestratorGW - GatewayCPE - Customer Premise Equipment

Presto APIsPresto APIs

• LSO Hackathons:

– Accelerate the development of comprehensive OpenLSO and OpenCS instances as part of the MEF's Open Initiatives

– Provide feedback to ongoing MEF projects in support of the MEF's Agile Standards Development approach to MEF specification development

– Facilitate discussion, collaboration, and the development of ideas, sample code, and solutions

– Encourage interdepartmental collaboration and communications within MEF member companies

– Held several times a year

– Offer both learning & commercial value

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What is MEFnet?

• A physical and virtual hosting environment for the hardware and software components of OpenLSO and OpenCS implementations

• Includes OpenLSO and OpenCS instances comprised of solutions from Open Source Projects and Closed Source industry products

• Supports distributed and interconnected member and partner labs, accessible for LSO Hackathons and ongoing MEF development and testing work

• Ample resources, 100+ VMs

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MEFnet Projects - Inter-carrier Orchestrated L3VPN

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MEF Software Development Community

• Internships for telecom university grad programs and their students

• Council of university professors to advise on program

• Special designation for interns in MEF branding for access to jobs

• Additional information to be available at official launch

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MEF UNITE Program• To coordinate internal & external engagement with

Standards Development Organizations, Industry Consortia, & Open Source Projects

• To avoid duplication of effort

• To bring technology silos into a coherent whole

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Industry White Paper of Third Network Services

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Third Network Services

http://mef.net/tgn

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Service OnBoarding & design

Policies for Operations

Service Distribution (Model)

Customer Service order

Service instantiation

Operations & real-time monitoring

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TEO

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PORTAL

DESIGN ORCHESTRATE OPERATE

Service Design

and Create (SDC)

Policy designer

Master Service

Orchestrator

(MSO)

Software Defined Network

Controller (SDN-C)

Application Controller (APP-C)

Active & Available

Inventory (A&AI)

ANALYTICS

Policy Engine

Data Collection

Analytics and

Events (DCAE)

ONAP

PHYSICAL NETWORK / PRIVATE CLOUD

PRESTO / ADAGIO

INTE

RLU

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CANTATA

ORDER ORCHESTRATION

ALLEGROLEGATO

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MEF and ONAP Collaboration

MEF AND PNDA COLLABORATION

The network state from the layers of

the LSO stack provides the context

required for the analytics

applications to provide meaningful

insight

The output from the analytics applications combines with policy to influence network behavior by optimizing the deployed services through feedback to the LSO orchestration and control functions

Enabling LSO to realize the vision of reactive networking

Sponsored by:

Bruno GiguèreDirector, Product Marketing, MEF

MEF Reference Implementations: Accelerating Adoption of

Third Network Services and LSO

25 min