PETACH TIKVA, Israel,
HONG KONG, ROME and LONDON, November 14,
2017 /PRNewswire/ --
- Thereby advancing
MEF 3.0 vision of supporting capabilities for
fulfillment, control, performance, and assurance
across multi-operator networks
- MEFnet partners
will demonstrate this project at the upcoming MEF17 in Orlando
ECI, PCCW Global, Sparkle and Tata
Communications announced today that the MEF 3.0 Service Fulfillment
and Activation Project led by them will demonstrate a major
advancement of the MEF's Third Network vision of agile, assured and
orchestrated network connectivity services, at MEF17 in
Orlando, Florida this week.
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In the age of ubiquitous internet,
seamless roaming, and decades after the advent of international
direct dialing, it is somewhat surprising that it still takes weeks
or months to set up widely used services across multiple service
provider domains. MEF 3.0 and the LSO framework were established
with the express purpose of facilitating simple, assured activation
of services across multiple service provider domains and
establishing industry standards which will solve this issue going
forward. Adopting LSO principles will enable service providers to
focus on quickly generating revenues rather than network operations
and may give them a competitive edge.
"The MEFnet project team, led by ECI, PCCW Global, Sparkle and
Tata Communications, is once again showing that the industry can
already benefit from the LSO framework today. It is important
the industry be able to realize the benefits in parallel to the
standardization process which is currently in the works," said
Pascal Menezes, MEF CTO. "We live
and work in a global economy, and advanced communications services
and their underlying networks can only meet their full potential if
they can be used on a global scale and span multiple service
providers. This is the goal of the MEF 3.0 services framework, and
MEF 3.0 Service Fulfillment and Activation Project is helping us to
realize that dream."
After the development of an LSO innovation platform, and an
award-winning proof of concept at MEF16, the MEF 3.0 Service
Fulfillment and Activation Project now takes the MEF vision and
implementation one step further. The ECI, PCCW Global, Sparkle and
Tata Communications project team, has shown that MEF 3.0 can
successfully speed up service turn up and assurance across multiple
service provider domains, even across domains which still rely on
proprietary OSS. This is done by providing a transparent overlay
which interfaces with OSS/BSS on the one side and LSO interfaces on
the other - thereby permitting the utilization of LSO protocols to
fulfill and assure the requested services.
The team's work is being turned into a permanent MEF sandbox
project. Open to all MEF members, it features live APIs, permitting
the creation and testing of multi-domain services. Most
importantly, participants can use this sandbox to test the
viability of the LSO solutions today. By adopting the suggested
inter-carrier overlay approach, service providers can benefit
immediately from global service
automation, while pursuing gradual and systematic upgrades of
the proprietary systems to become fully LSO-compliant.
"We've come a long way from when we first introduced our
proof-of-concept last year during MEF16, where attendees witnessed
the implementation of Third Network services firsthand," said
Sarit Tager, VP R&D SDN and LSO
at ECI. "Now that the proof of concept has become a reality, we're
pleased to bring this solution to MEF, showing a true global vision
for vendor agnostic SDN and NFV services is achievable, and that
global connectivity can be setup dynamically to access cloud-based
services or other applications, and align with end-user
expectations for on-demand agility."
The work done by MEFnet project will be demonstrated at MEF17 in
Orlando, FL, USA during the week
of Nov. 13th. For more
information about the MEFnet project, please click here.
About MEF and MEF17
An industry association of 210+ member companies, MEF is enabling
service providers to create a global ecosystem of networks that
deliver agile, assured, and orchestrated services for the digital
economy and hyper-connected world. These services provide an
on-demand, cloud-centric experience with user and
application-directed control over network resources and service
capabilities. They are delivered over automated, virtualized, and
interconnected networks powered by LSO, SDN, and NFV. MEF produces
LSO frameworks, open LSO APIs, software-driven reference
implementations, service specifications, and certification
programs. MEF's work will enable automated delivery of standardized
wavelength, Carrier Ethernet, IP, SD-WAN, and Layer 4-7 services
across multiple provider networks. For more information:
https://mef.net.
MEF17 brings together the key industry players who are enabling
agile, assured, and orchestrated services optimized for the digital
economy and hyper-connected world. The event is on pace to be
bigger and better than last year's popular MEF16 event, with a
target of 1,000+ attendees from 275+ companies, 275+ service &
technology executives, 110+ expert speakers, 110+ sponsors &
event partners, 11 Proof of Concept demonstrations, and more. For
more event information, visit MEF17.com.
ABOUT ECI
ECI is a global provider of ELASTIC network solutions to CSPs,
critical infrastructures as well as data center operators. Along
with its long-standing, industry-proven packet-optical transport,
ECI offers a variety of SDN/NFV applications, end-to-end network
management, a comprehensive cybersecurity solution, and a range of
professional services. ECI's ELASTIC solutions ensure open,
future-proof, and secure communications. With ECI, customers have
the luxury of choosing a network that can be tailor-made to their
needs today while being flexible enough to evolve with the changing
needs of tomorrow. For more information visit
http://www.ecitele.com.
The ECI team will be presenting, speaking and demoing various
solutions at MEF17 at booth 101. ECI has been also named finalist
for 2 prominent MEF Awards (CE 2.0 and orchestration).
About PCCW Global
PCCW Global is the international operating division of HKT,
Hong Kong's premier
telecommunications service provider, which is majority-owned by
PCCW Limited. Covering more than 3,000 cities and 150 countries,
the PCCW Global network supports a portfolio of integrated global
communications solutions which include Ethernet, IP, fiber and
satellite transmission solutions, international voice and VoIPX
services, managed network & security services and our expanding
"as-a-service" solutions including OTT video and Unified
Communications.
PCCW Global is headquartered in Hong
Kong, and maintains regional centers in Belgium, China, France, Greece, Japan, Korea, Singapore, South
Africa, the United Arab
Emirates, the United
Kingdom and the United States of
America. To learn more about PCCW Global, please visit
http://www.pccwglobal.com.
About Sparkle
Sparkle is the wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia Group
(NYSE:TI) with the mission to develop and consolidate the Italian
telco's international services business. As a leading global
carrier and through a global backbone of around 560.000 km of
fiber, Sparkle offers a full range of IP, Data, Cloud, Data
Center, Mobile Data and Voice solutions to fixed and mobile
operators, Internet service providers, Media and Content providers
and to Multinational enterprises. Its sales force is active
worldwide and distributed over 37 countries. Find out more about
Telecom Italia Sparkle at http://www.tisparkle.com.
About Tata Communications
Tata Communications Limited (CIN no: L64200MH1986PLC039266) along
with its subsidiaries (Tata Communications) is a leading global
provider of A New World of Communications™. With a leadership
position in emerging markets, Tata Communications leverages its
advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its
global network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national
enterprises and communications service providers.
The Tata Communications global network includes one of the most
advanced and largest submarine cable networks and a Tier-1 IP
network with connectivity to more than 240 countries and
territories across 400 PoPs, as well as nearly 1 million square
feet of data centre and colocation space worldwide.
Tata Communications' depth and breadth of reach in emerging
markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services and
leadership in global international voice communications. Tata
Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and
the National Stock Exchange of India. http://www.tatacommunications.com
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owners. TATA COMMUNICATIONS and TATA are trademarks of Tata Sons
Limited in certain countries.
Ashley Schulte
Witz Communications for MEF
ashley@witzcommunications.com
OneChocolate for ECI Telecom
+1-415-989-9803
ecitelecom@onechocolatecomms.com
Ivan Ho
PCCW Group
+852-2883-8747
ivan.wy.ho@pccw.com
Natalie Chak
Tata Communications
M: +44(0)7833-043-779
E: natalie.chak@tatacommunications.com
SOURCE ECI Telecom