Fresh off a developer release for LSO Sonata and the first crack at SD-WAN standards and certification, MEF is moving forward on its road map, including orchestration for enterprises, blockchain and 5G.

MEF CTO Pascal Menezes outlined some of MEF's past accomplishments—including how it has pivoted into being a more nimble standards development organization—and then spoke about where MEF is headed during a Wednesday morning keynote address.

Menezes said MEF is working with aggregators Neutrona Networks and Epsilon in order to bring LSO Sonata's BSS automation across local loops to resellers, which will open up access to hundreds if not thousands of access providers. 

"We're taking Sonata and we want to be able to get to those access networks," Menezes said. "They'll be able to implement the BSS automation side to other retailers who need access to those local loops worldwide."

While the Lifecycle Service Orchestration Sonata APIs are a hot topic this week in terms of enabling intercarrier orchestration of services, the LSO Cantata APIs are waiting in the wings. Also this week, MEF announced that it was forming an enterprise advisory panel to get input from large multinational enterprises, which are prime targets for LSO Cantata.

"The enterprise are saying they want orchestrators that talk to other orchestrators," Menezes said. "We're starting to see PoCs starting on Cantata, and it's the enterprise-to-service provider orchestrators.