New features solve complex addressing and operational challenges for NaaS ecosystem
LOS ANGELES, February 18, 2025 – MEF, a global industry association of enterprise and network, cloud, security, and technology providers accelerating enterprise digital transformation, today announced its most powerful Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) API release to date. MEF’s ninth LSO API release solves for the first time complex addressing and operational challenges, including observability. Additionally, this release introduces a suite of advancements designed to enhance service provider and enterprise adoption of standardized, open ecosystem automation for Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) offerings.
“As enterprise networks increasingly become mission-critical, especially with the advent of generative AI, service providers must have the automation capabilities necessary to deliver seamless, standardized services at scale,” said Pascal Menezes, CTO, MEF. “This latest LSO API release represents MEF’s most advanced set of automation tools yet, solving fundamental challenges in service qualification, operational observability, and product definition.”
Key enhancements in the latest MEF LSO API release include:
Advanced Addressing Capabilities – One of the most significant challenges in network automation is determining service availability at specific locations due to varying global address representations. MEF’s new LSO API release solves this challenge by introducing the concept of Installation Place within the MEF Addressing and Site API, allowing service providers to validate addresses more accurately. This innovation enables multiple representations of an address, improving the success rate of service qualification queries and enhancing global service delivery.
Comprehensive Operational Observability – Enterprises increasingly demand full observability of the services they subscribe to, even when delivered across multiple supply chain partners. Now global service providers can interconnect and offer real-time insights into Service Function Testing, performance monitoring, fault detection, and trouble ticketing. This delivers comprehensive end-to-end operational observability for Day N automation workflows.
Expanded Suite of Product and Service Payloads – MEF LSO APIs are designed to support the full lifecycle of NaaS, enabling automated service delivery among enterprises, service providers, and cloud providers. This release augments Carrier Ethernet, DIA, and IP Broadband payloads while incorporating pre-standard payloads for SD-WAN, Wavelengths, Data Center Cross-Connect, MEC IaaS, CAMARA Quality on Demand, and Google Cloud Connect.
Enhanced Product Catalog API – The new API release introduces bundling and pricing capabilities to better define and automate NaaS service offerings. By providing a machine-readable product schema, service providers can create flexible, standardized service definitions that streamline interactions with ecosystem partners.
MEF’s LSO Irene release is now available on the MEF LSO Marketplace.
MEF’s State of the Industry Report: Paradigm Shift – Automating Business Functions Between Service Providers highlights why standardized business and operational APIs are critical for unlocking new market opportunities in NaaS and next-generation services.
MEF’s NaaS Customer Experience White Paper defines key service features, helping enterprises understand what to expect—scalability, dynamic connectivity, real-time insights, and security—while guiding providers on standardized, automated delivery.
MEF’s 2025 NaaS Industry Blueprint provides a comprehensive guide to help service providers and ecosystem participants develop, deliver, and manage NaaS offerings across a standards-based automated ecosystem.
For more information, visit www.mef.net.
About MEF
MEF is a global consortium of service, cloud, cybersecurity, and technology providers collaborating to accelerate enterprise digital transformation. It delivers standards-based frameworks, services, technologies, APIs, and certification programs to enable Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) across an automated ecosystem. MEF is the defining authority for certified Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) business and operational APIs and Carrier Ethernet, SASE, SD-WAN, Zero Trust, and Security Service Edge (SSE) technologies and services. MEF’s Global NaaS Event (GNE) convenes industry leaders building and delivering the next generation of NaaS solutions. For more information about MEF, visit MEF.net and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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