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MEF Takes On SD-WAN Standardization Mike Robuck, Editor, Telco Transformation, 7/20/2017 Email This Print Comment 9 comments Login 50% 50% The MEF is taking the SD-WAN bull by the horns by announcing it will standardize SD-WAN managed services through its Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) framework using open APIs. The MEF is also working on defining SD-WAN service terminology, components and implementations in order to bring together vendors, orchestration experts and managed service providers. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE: CTL), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Orange (NYSE: FTE) to name a just a few. as well as a large number of competing vendors that are offering their own flavors. According to IDC, the market for SD-WAN managed services is expected to hit $6 billon by 2020. To date, there hasn't been an industry standard definition for SD-WAN, which the MEF is now addressing through its OpenCS (Open Connectivity Services) SD-WAN Project. The project is drawing a bead on defining six managed use cases and business requirements to ensure that the open LSO APIs can enable orchestration of SD-WAN managed services across multiple service provider and vendor implementations. "Businesses are demanding WAN flexibility to control costs as they migrate applications to the cloud and see SD-WAN as an option to address this," said MEF CTO Pascal Menezes, in a prepared statement. "To meet these demands and remain competitive, service providers are looking to integrate SD-WAN into a portfolio of orchestrated services delivered in a seamless, automated fashion." Want to know more about the companies, people and organizations driving developments in the virtualization sector? Check out Virtuapedia, the most comprehensive online resource covering the virtualization industry. The LSO APIs enable SD-WAN assurance and application performance and security policies that include telemetry data that circles back into LSO analytic platforms for AI automated use cases. Riverbed Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD) and VeloCloud Networks Inc. are leading the charge for the Open CS project with contributions from Amartus , Cox Communications Inc. , Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. , GBI, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Nokia's Nuage Networks . As new MEF members, Versa Networks and Silver Peak Systems Inc. will also pitch in on the SD-WAN project. To further define SD-WAN, MEF published a white paper called "Understanding SD-WAN Managed Services: Service Components, MEF LSO Reference Architecture and Use Cases." 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