MEF

Daniel Bar-Lev, Chief Product Officer at MEF, presents insights on network-as-a-service programs and enterprise collaboration. He touches on new service performance monitoring and cybersecurity alert systems with industry partners.

Use cases are expanding for Campus NaaS. Sunil Khandekar, Chief Enterprise Development Officer at MEF, discusses the appeal of zero to minimal upfront capital expenditure and provider-managed operations and upgrades. He points to mid-sized and smaller companies as early beneficiaries of a NaaS approach, and suggests that remote offices of larger companies can also likewise benefit.

Sunil Khandekar, Chief Enterprise Development Officer at MEF, discusses the rise of Network as a Service (NaaS) and gives a preview of the upcoming GNE flagship event in Dallas in late October.

Pascal Menezes, CTO of MEF, discusses the industry's shift towards carrier NaaS, which involves automating and connecting global underlays in a federated model to support overlay models like SD-WAN and network slicing. Menezes outlines four major themes in MEF's NaaS vision: on-demand connectivity, application performance guarantees, cybersecurity, and multi-cloud integration, emphasizing the importance of automation and federation among NaaS providers.

Stan Hubbard, Principal Research Analyst at MEF, introduces their 2025 NaaS Industry Blueprint, which defines NaaS and outlines its key components. The blueprint provides guidance for service providers and partners in developing network services across a global ecosystem.

Kevin Vachon, COO of MEF, does a walking interview with Jim Carroll, and highlights the growing momentum behind NaaS at the Global MEF event, noting increased prioritization among carriers and new entrants.

Kevin Vachon, COO of MEF, highlights the growth of Network as a Service (NaaS) offerings in 2024., Vachon predicts vendors will align their solutions to enhance service provider offerings. He anticipates a breakthrough in inter-carrier automation in the US market, overcoming complexities of migrating from legacy standards, and foresees the emergence of market-specific automation solutions.

Kevin Vachon, COO of MEF, emphasized the organization’s focus on Network as a Service (NaaS) and its role in setting industry standards at the MEF’s Global NaaS event in Arlington, Texas. He also introduced an Enterprise Leadership Council to meet customer requirements and affirmed MEF’s commitment to tracking industry progress and advancing NaaS.

Sunil Khandekar, Chair of MEF's Enterprise Leadership Council, discussed the potential of Network as a Service (NaaS) to simplify network services consumption, despite challenges posed by diverse endpoints and office locations. Khandekar expressed optimism that technology vendors and service providers are progressing towards making NaaS consumption-based, aligning IT infrastructure with business needs in terms of network cloud and security.

Sunil Khandekar, Chair of MEF's Enterprise Leadership Council, is leading an initiative to establish a council comprising senior executives representing all major enterprise verticals to complement MEF's top-tier service providers board and technology vendors technical advisory board, aiming to integrate the essential enterprise viewpoint into MEF's leadership. The initiative also seeks to create a knowledge bank, managed by the Enterprise Leadership Council, to provide enterprises with practical insights for implementing their cloud network and security projects through use cases, best practices, white papers, and tutorials.

Nan Chen, President and CEO of MEF, unveiled the company’s new blueprint for Network as a Service (NaaS) at the MEF Global NaaS event, emphasizing the need for industry standards and MEF’s capacity to standardize and collaborate with the entire industry. Chen also highlighted the role of Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs in delivering automated services and building an ecosystem of service providers, technology vendors, and enterprises, defining NaaS as a blend of on-demand connectivity, application assurance, multi-cloud services, and cybersecurity delivered over a global network.

Pascal Menezes, CTO of MEF, presented the new Nas Global blueprint at the MEF Global NaaS event, aiming to standardize APIs to facilitate interaction between hyperscalers, product vendors, and cloud operators. Menezes envisions a future where all clouds are interconnected, creating a “super cloud” for a seamless user experience, and highlighted the synergy between MEF’s work and APIs from organizations like TM Forum and the Linux Foundation’s CAMARA project.

Service Providers have been adopting MEF LSO Sonata APIs to automate orchestrate delivery across a partner ecosystem. How will this trend fare in 2023? MEF's Stan Hubbard makes his predictions for service automation in 2023.

MEF is enabling an ecosystem of network, cloud, and technology providers dedicated to enterprise digital transformation. What are the next steps in network evolution in 2023? MEF's Pascal Menezes makes his predictions for network automation and orchestration in 2023.

Daniel Bar-Lev, VP Strategic Programs, Business Development at MEF, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Pascal Menezes, CTO of MEF, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Kevin Vachon, Chief Operating Officer of MEF, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.

Dan Pitt, Senior VP, MEF, discusses how SD-WAN enables access to cloud services, whether on-premises, in a colo, or on a public cloud. Communications service providers have an opportunity here while cloud operators figure out how much connectivity services they should provide.