MEF, a global industry association of network, cloud, and technology providers, on Thursday announced a comprehensive set of new APIs, services, and programs in response to significant market demand to accelerate the implementation of MEF Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs.
More than 23 companies, including AT&T and Verizon, are either in production with LSO Sonata APIs or intend to be within the next nine months, said MEF. Companies currently in production with LSO Sonata include: AT&T, Axtel Networks, Bloomberg, China Unicom Global, Colt Technology Services, HGC Global Communications, Lumen, Orange, PCCW Global, Sparkle, Telefónica Global Solutions, Telia, and Zayo. Companies committed to implementing LSO Sonata include: CMC Networks, Proximus, TELUS, TIME dotCom, Verizon Business Group, and others.
The new APIs, services, and programs will support service providers throughout all stages of their LSO adoption journey—from evaluation and business-case development to the testing, production, and certification phases of implementation.
The MEF LSO API Framework is a set of SDKs containing APIs, tools, documentation, and underlying standards for delivering frictionless service provider commerce. The new Billie release includes support for automated business functionalities including address validation, site query, product offering qualification, quote, product order, product inventory, and trouble ticketing for Carrier Ethernet (CE) connectivity services. Additional functions such as billing and settlement, and support for additional payloads (e.g., Internet Access) will be available in future releases.
John Nolan, Vice President, Global Connections & Alliance Management at AT&T
AT&T is leading the global implementation of MEF LSO Sonata APIs through our ecosystem. We’re seeing an acceleration in the number of global providers working towards a 2021 implementation and an increase in the number of providers who were actively discussing and evaluating the benefits of MEF Sonata API adoption.
Nan Chen, President, MEF
MEF LSO APIs are taking off because they offer an automated, standardized way for service providers to turn up services in seconds, not days. And now, with new services, programs, and resources designed to accelerate LSO implementation, MEF is taking away pain points throughout the adoption and implementation journey.
