Podcast | Open APIs, Networks, Open Digital Architecture (ODA), Network as a Service (NaaS)

Inside Out: Why MEF and TM Forum are aligning to help automate network services

Pascal Menezes, CTO, MEF, discusses why API alignment between standards organizations will enable network-as-a-service

Pascal Menezes

Joanne Taaffe, TM Forum

17 Jul 2024

Inside Out: Why MEF and TM Forum are aligning to help automate network services

TM Forum and MEF recently announced they are collaborating to harmonize MEF’s APIs with TM Forum’s Gen5 Open API standards to streamline automation within the MEF Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) domain.

We caught up with Pascal Menezes, CTO, MEF, to discuss what the alignment means for communications service providers as they seek to deliver increasingly complex multi-provider network services.

Listen to the podcast to find out more.

Pascal Menezes

CTO, MEF

Joanne Taaffe

Editor in Chief, Inform, TM Forum

Joanne has been covering telecoms and IT as an editor and journalist since the mid-90s. Prior to joining TM Forum, Joanne was a writer and editor in the smart manufacturing sector and is interested in how new technologies are impacting business ecosystems.