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Security is a top requirement for SD-WAN services and is major area of focus for MEF's industry-leading SD-WAN standardization work. In this interactive public webinar, we will explore key building blocks for the convergence of software-defined networking and security.  These include: 

(1) MEF’s foundational industry standard that defines SD-WAN Service Attributes and Services; 

(2) MEF’s emerging, well-progressed Application Security for SD-WAN standard that specifies the policy criteria needed to add application security to SD-WAN; 

(3) a Zero Trust Framework, which aims to ensure that users and applications are properly authenticated before granting them access to network resources;

(4) a SASE Services Framework, which introduces a new construct called a SASE Service that connects users with their applications in the cloud while providing connectivity performance and security assurance determined by policies set by the user.

Join this webinar to engage with MEF’s CTO and subject matter experts to gain valuable insight into the hottest area of SD-WAN services market development!

Agenda:

Introduction
Stan Hubbard, Workshop Moderator; Communications & Research Director, MEF

Building Blocks for Convergence of Networking & Security
Pascal Menezes, CTO, MEF

SD-WAN Service Attributes & Services (MEF 70.x)
Neil Danilowicz, Principal Architect, Versa Networks

Application Security for SD-WAN Services (MEF W88)
Nicolas Thomas, SDN/APIs Strategist, Fortinet 

Zero Trust Framework and Requirements Ad Hoc for SD-WAN
Q&A with Ralph Santitoro, Head of Digital Services, Fujitsu Network Communications

SASE Services Framework Ad Hoc and White Paper
Open

Closing Remarks
Stan Hubbard, Workshop Moderator; Communications & Research Director, MEF

MEF and Layer123: SD-WAN Security & SASE

Network automation has been underway across carriers and connectivity providers for some time - now, it's time to move the conversation to the balance sheet. PCCW Global's AVP New Technology, Shahar Steiff, discusses how network transformation can offer new and improved sources of revenue.

Enabling new services: How can automation generate new revenue streams?

This webinar will provide first hand insights on the current status & trends in the Dutch data center market. The Netherlands is considered the Digital Gateway to Europe: the data hub right in the heart of Europe's Single Market and in between the large economies of the UK, Germany, France and Scandinavia. During this webinar, Stijn Grove, Managing Director of Dutch Data Center Association, will share his insights on The Netherlands as one of the strongest digital ecosystems in the world.

Overview, current status & trends: Dutch data centre market

What is the current situation with NFV and SDN, and how is this shaping up for the future? Roy Chua, Principal and Founder of the AvidThink independent research and analysis firm, will lead this webinar discussing the current situation and the key insights of the market at the present time.

The state of NFV/SDN - what we need to know

What does it take to build a high quality/highly available network to support peak application performance? Find out what tools Verizon used to deliver better services for its customers and manage its networks more efficiently.

Application Performance Enablement Drives SDN Networks

As service providers progress towards network virtualization, the hot topic of NFV license management becomes critical to solve. In our increasingly software world, volumes of VNF instances - from many vendors - can be instantiated anywhere on demand. ETSI and TM Forum understood this need and have been instrumental in accelerating standardization in this area. In this webinar, experts Don Clarke (Principal Architect for Network Technologies at CableLabs and Chair of the ETSI NFV Network Operator Council) and Abinash Vishwakarma (Senior Member of Netcracker’s CTO group and Leader of the ETSI NFV License Management activity) will explain the motivation for service providers to quickly develop standardized methods for NFV License Management and describe the fast progress the standards groups are making.

NFV License Management: Why We Need to Solve It Quickly

Industry updates, challenges or big issues coming up in the next 3-6 months in the SDN NFV environment.

Alan Burkitt-Gray will be moderating the panel discussion with Marc Cohn (VP Product Management, EnterpriseWeb), Emir Halilovic (Principal Analyst, Global Telecom Technology and Software, GlobalData), Dan Pitt (Senior VP, MEF) and Sue Rudd (Director Service Provider Analysis, Strategy Analytics)

SDN NFV World Congress - Virtual Panel Discussion

Enabling a simple, visually oriented platform that customers can use to design and order complex network services is very important strategy to drive digital transformation and meeting demands for superior customer experience. Verizon Service Designer, Intuitive Visual Design tool, is a cornerstone Strategy for Enterprise customers.

- It as a unified portal to create, maintain, manage large complex E2E network designs for legacy, Wireless, IOT, SDN/NFV Network services.
- Manages lifecycle from service design to configuration by tying together BSS and OSS stack by abstracting away complexities.
- Improves Network Agility through on demand creation and consumption of network services.

The Winners - Best Technology Innovation Program

Zero-touch is the latest initiative to emerge from the Carrier Virtualization movement. Zero-touch suggests “hands-free” operations, what Cloud-folks refer to as “NoOps”.  While NFV & SDN based services are intended to liberate CSPs from the bounds of physical infrastructure, however the highly-dynamic environments they will create will move too fast for human decision-making and intervention. To ensure that Zero-touch is more than a buzz word will require sophisticated autonomous systems and seamless interoperability to handle service requests and respond to network events in real-time.

This webinar will feature a presentation by Dave Duggal, founder and CEO of EnterpriseWeb, which won a Layer 123 “Network Transformation Award” for Interoperability at the SDN & NFV World Congress in October. EnterpriseWeb is an innovative startup that offers a framework for extreme automation. Their suite of Cloud-native products provide for secure, scalable, zero-touch operations with policy-based management. 

The webinar feature a product demonstration showing how customers using EnterpriseWeb can onboard any heterogeneous VNF or PNF, compose them into any arbitrary Network Service, and deploy them with any diverse target environment (multi-VNFM, multi-Cloud, multi-VIM) – with no manual coding! The demo will go on to show how their software dynamically responds to events and how services can be reconfigured using simply Metadata.

The Winners - Zero-Touch Operations = Extreme Automation

Discover how Telstra has leveraged the development and deployment of an open source software based national SDN & NFV network to spearhead the transformation of its engineering and operation teams and their methodologies.

The Winners - Culture & Diversity

ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) is a collaborative open community focused on delivering an open source Management and Orchestration (MANO) stack aligned with ETSI NFV Information Models. As an operator-led community, OSM is offering a production-quality open source MANO stack that meets the requirements today and in the future for competitive, commercial NFV networks. Since its inception in February 2016, OSM has grown to encompass almost 80 organizations and three releases.

The Winners - Best Open Source Development

The NetNumber Multi-protocol Signaling Firewall is the industry's most comprehensive signalling firewall, providing protection for all signalling protocols including SS7, Diameter, SIP, HTTP and DNS/ENUM. As these firewall applications can be combined seamlessly with other NetNumber applications such as an STP, DSC, HSS or HLR on the same TITAN platform, telecom operators have an unprecedented level of multi-protocol signaling protection, flexibility and operational uniformity in a platform that can reduce Opex/Capex costs and improve efficiency.

The Winners - Best New Security Solution - Multi-protocol Signaling Firewall

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