MEF is expanding from Carrier Ethernet to many new types of services, including SD-WAN managed services. Ralph Santitoro, Distinguished Fellow, MEF, discusses a new white paper from MEF that introduces SD-WAN functions, terminology, and service components; explains how the components fit within the LSO Reference Architecture; and provides SD-WAN managed services use cases. Ralph says that many of MEF’s successful programs related to Carrier Ethernet will be replicated with SD-WAN.
Recorded at the MEF Annual Members’ Meeting in Toronto.
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You just read about SD-WAN. Here is what it replaced:
MPLS served from 1997. What ultimately replaced it?
MPLS routers prepend a short label to each packet; downstream label-switched routers forward by label swap along pre-computed paths (LSPs) instead of per-hop IP lookups, enabling traffic engineering and VPNs. Its job passed to SD-WAN — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
