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LOS ANGELES—The Wild West days of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) are over, at least from MEF's perspective, after it announced its first take on standards and certification on Monday.
AT&T's Roman Pacewicz, chief product officer, who sits on MEF's board of directors, has been knee-deep in SD-WAN ever since AT&T launched its hybrid offering two years ago. The provider uses VMware's VeloCloud for SD-WAN and offers two flavors of the tech: an over-the-top version on an AT&T FlexWare device and a network-based offering that uses the FlexWare virtualized platform.
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MEF's Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Implementation project, which was first announced in May, is one of the real-world results of the MEF 3.0 framework that was announced at MEF17 last year.
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