MEF Certification Update

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1 Seminar Series Sponsor Event Sponsors MEF Certification Update Thomas Mandeville Head of Operations & Customer Relations Iometrix, MEF Official Certification Test Lab

2 Agenda: MEF Certification Program Program Achievements MEF-CECP Professional Certification CE 2.0 Services and Equipment Program CE 2.0 Certification Process New 100 G Carrier Ethernet Services New E-Access and E-Transit Services New MEF Services Interconnect Program MEF Certification Program Roadmap 2

3 MEF CE 2.0 Certification Achievements MEF certification programs Services and Equipment launched in Professional launched in 2012 MEF launched CE 2.0 certification in CE 2.0 Service Providers 44 CE 2.0 E-Access Service Providers 302 CE 2.0 device certifications 43 CE 2.0 Equipment Manufacturers 3

4 63 CE 2.0 Certified Service Providers 4

5 43 CE 2.0 Certified Equipment Vendors 5

6 Professional Certification MEF Certified Professionals Convention Successful event at GEN15 MEF-CECP Certification Nearly 4,182+ MEF-CECPs in 421 organizations in 76 countries MEF-C3 Professional Certification Covers all aspects of MEF s work Terminology and concepts Pilot planned for H

7 MEF-CECP is a Globally Recognized, Vendor Neutral Certification Program, Designed to Ensure That Organizations Have a Common Baseline of Technical Carrier Ethernet Skills Across Many Organizational Functions 1h 45m online exam available worldwide Self-study or attend accredited training programs US$350 testing fee MEF membership not required Pre-requisite for MEF Services Interconnect Program May ,182+ MEF-CECPs 421 Companies 209+ Service Providers 76 countries 24% 12% 64% Network Opera ons 4% Technical Development 4% Other 15% Technical Support 4% Product Development 4% Sales Engineering 26% Service Providers Equipment Manufacturers Other Training 5% Network Architecture 7% Network Design 6% Product Management 9% Network Engineering 16% 7

8 Accredited Training Choose from 7 global MEF Accredited Training Providers (MEF-ATPs) Class training on customer premises or on the MEF-ATP premises anywhere in the world Group purchase of MEF-CECP exams on behalf of examinees Group proctoring of examinees at the end of the MEF-CECP training Pricing and scheduling agreed directly with the MEF-ATPs More than 80% of MEF-CECPs studied with a MEF-ATP 8

9 CE 2.0 Services Certifications Service Type Port Based Service VLAN Based Service E-Line Point-to-point EVC UNI to UNI E-LAN Multipoint-to-multipoint EVC UNI to UNI E-Tree Rooted-multipoint EVC UNI to UNI E-Access Point-to-point OVC UNI to ENNI EPL Ethernet Private Line EP-LAN Ethernet Private LAN EP-Tree Ethernet Private Tree Access EPL Access Ethernet Private Line EVPL Ethernet Virtual Private Line EVP-LAN Ethernet Virtual Private LAN EVP-Tree Ethernet Virtual Private Tree Access EVPL Access Ethernet Virtual Private Line 9

10 10 CE 2.0 Test Plan Part 1: Services Attributes Test Cases Part 2: Traffic Management Test Cases E-Line E-LAN E-Tree E-Access UNI to UNI UNI to UNI UNI to UNI UNI to ENNI Test Cases for Physical Interface & Frame Format Physical Medium, Speed, Mode and MAC Layer Untagged, C-tagged, S-tagged frames 802.1ad-2005 MTU Size: UNI, ENNI, EVC & OVC Test Cases for UNI Attributes UNI Service Multiplexing UNI Bundling UNI All-to-One Bundling Test Cases for EVC and OVC Support EVC Support (Point-to-point, Multipoint-to-multipoint and Rooted-multipoint EVC) CE-VLAN ID and CE-VLAN CoS Preservation CE-VLAN ID/EVC Map and OVC EP Map Unicast, Multicast, Broadcast Service Frame Delivery Test Cases for L2CP Handling L2CP Must Tunnel L2CP Must Not Tunnel Test Cases for Service OAM Handling Subscriber MEG and Test MEG CCM, LBM, LBR, LTM and LTR messages E-Line E-LAN E-Tree E-Access UNI to UNI UNI to UNI UNI to UNI UNI to ENNI Test Cases for Performance Three Class of Service: High, Medium, Low 5 performance metrics: One-Way Frame Delay Performance One-Way Mean Frame Delay Performance One-Way Inter-Frame Delay Performance One-Way Frame Delay Range One-Way Frame Loss Ratio 4 Performance Tiers: PT1, PT2, PT3, PT4 Test Cases for Ingress Bandwidth Profile CIR Enforcement & Granularity CBS Enforcement EIR Enforcement & Granularity EBS Enforcement BWP Types (Per UNI, Per EVC, Per PCP, Per DSCP, Per L2CP) Color-Aware BWP Color-Blind BWP Test Cases for Egress Bandwidth Profile CIR Enforcement & Granularity BWP Types (Per UNI, Per EVC, Per PCP, Per DSCP, Per L2CP)

11 11 CE 2.0 Certification Process 11

12 CE 2.0 Test Bed Site B (City, Country) Test Probe UNI B1 E-Line E-LAN E-Tree UNI B2 Iometrix Test Control Center EPL EP-LAN EP-Tree EVPL EVP-LAN EVP-Tree Site A (City, Country) Test Probe UNI B3 UNI B4 MGT Port Public Internet UNI A1 UNI B5 Iometrix Test Control Center UNI A2 UNI B6 Public Internet MGT Port UNI A3 UNI A4 UNI C1 UNI C2 Test Probe Iometrix Test Control Center UNI A5 UNI A6 UNI C3 UNI C4 MGT Port Public Internet UNI C5 Site C (City, Country) 12

13 CE2.0 Test Bed for Wholesale Services E-Access Access EPL Access EVPL Site A (City, Country) Site B (City, Country) Test Probe Test Probe Iometrix Test Control Center Public Internet MGT Port ENNI A OVC EP 1 OVC EP 2 OVC EP 3 OVC EP 4 OVC 1 OVC 2 OVC 3 OVC 4 OVC EP 11 OVC EP 22 OVC EP 33 OVC EP 44 UNI A UNI B UNI C MGT Port Iometrix Test Control Center Public Internet ENNI B OVC EP 5 OVC 5 OVC EP 55 UNI D OVC EP 6 OVC 6 OVC EP 66 13

14 CE 2.0 Certification Benefits MEF certification registry provides global exposure to CE 2.0 certified service providers A single MEF-sanctioned conformity testing process replaces costly in-house testing CE 2.0 certified services adhere to full set of MEF attributes and performance specifications Ensures support for advanced business, wholesale, mobile backhaul and cloud CE 2.0 E-Access makes it simpler and less costly to interconnect and deliver services to off-net locations 14

15 First 100G CE 2.0 Certifications First six CE G equipment vendors announced in GEN15 First 100G service provider completed March 2016 Now part of regular CE 2.0 program! 15

16 New E-Transit & Augmented E-Access Completes the family of CE 2.0 services Based on MEF 51 specification Current E-Access certifications based on MEF 33 remain fully valid Augmented E-Access (ENNI to UNI service) Access service for a service provider to reach off-net locations New E-Transit (ENNI to ENNI service) Transit service between 2 or more operators E-Access E-Transit Pilot Phase for Equipment Manufacturers underway Available for Service Providers when vendor pilot phase completes 16

17 Certification Program Evolution From Services Certification to Orchestrated Services Certification Orchestrated Services CE 2.0 Services E-Line E-LAN E-Tree E-Access Access E-Line Transit E-Line E-Line E-LAN E-Tree CE 1.0 Services E-Access Access E-Line Transit E-Line IP Services Cloud Services NFaaS L4-L7 E-Line E-LAN Other CE 2.0 Services Other Connectivity Services 17

18 First LSO Certification Pilot Phase Proposal Several test topologies are to be used to verify the E-Line services attributes. Several service attributes may be modified during certification testing using the LSO PRESTO NRP API CE 2.0 E-Line Orchestrated Using LSO PRESTO NRP API Create Activate Key attributes Mapping CoS MTU Initial EPL Value All-to-one Single CoS (H) 1522 B L2CP Option 1 Bandwidth Profile Cos H Modification of an EPL service using the LSO PRESTO NRP API Query Suspend Resume Query Test CE 2.0 CIR CBS EIR EBS 10 Mbps 15 KB 0 Mbps 0 KB Deactivate Modify Re-Activate Query Suspend Resume Query Key attributes Mapping CoS MTU Final EPL Value All-to-one Two CoS (H-M) 2000 B L2CP Option 2 Bandwidth Profile Cos H Bandwidth Profile Cos M CIR CBS EIR EBS CIR CBS EIR EBS Test CE Mbps 20 KB 0 Mbps 0 KB 50 Mbps 35 KB 30 Mbps 25 KB Deactivate Delete 18

19 Certification Program Roadmap Aligned with OpenCS and OpenLSO development LSO Orchestrated Services Certification CE 2.0 Services Certification Connectivity Services Certification E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, & E- Access Services 1G-10G-100G New E-Access & E- Transit Services added to CE 2.0 Certification SDN/NFV implementations can be submitted to CE 2.0 Certification First LSO Orchestrated Services Certification - Using the PRESTO NRP API Ongoing development of LSO Orchestrated Services Certification - Using PRESTO, INTERLUDE, SONATA, LEGATO, CANTATA, ALLEGRO LSO Interfaces APIs First IP Services added to the Services Certification 19

20 Seminar Series Sponsor Event Sponsors MEF Certification Update Thomas Mandeville Head of Operations & Customer Relations Iometrix, MEF Official Certification Test Lab