Thus far hundreds of systems from over 45 vendors have been certified for
MEF 9 (Abstract Test Suite for Ethernet Services at the UNI; the Ethernet services
are defined in MEF 6); certification for MEF 14 (Service Quality) is also now underway
and numerous vendors ??” over 35, have already been certified as well.
?– Phase 2 This is focused on ensuring that the Carrier Ethernet services offered by
Service Providers are compliant with the MEF specifications. The first set of over
15 Service Providers was certified for MEF 9; this guarantees that the E-LINE and
E-LAN from these Service Providers will be compliant with MEF. Eleven Service
Providers have been certified for MEF 14 as well.
The certification program is extending to testing Traffic Management (MEF 10.1)
according to the definitions in MEF 7.
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Figure 2.23 depicts the extent of progress made in the MEF Certification Program, as
of July 2007. To date 17 Service Providers and 45 equipment vendors with 320 systems
have been certified.
MEF has also recently introduced two new technical test specifications, MEF 18
(Abstract test suite for CES over Ethernet services) and MEF 19 (Abstract test suite for
UNI Type 1), and is working on developing potentially test suites for E-NNI and LMI.
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