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Pre Certification

What is MEF?
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is a non-profit organization formed for the sole mission of “Accelerating the worldwide adoption of carrier-class Ethernet networks and services”. MEF supports two certification programs

MEF-9
MEF-14

Benefits of MEF certification
MEF certification benefits a whole range for customers ranging from Service Providers to Equipment vendors and enterprises. The certification adds a huge market value, which can be utilized to gain a competitive edge over the competitive devices in the market.

What is Pre-certification and its necessity?
Before an equipment vendor takes the device for certification labs, the device can be tested for the complete MEF test suite in Afila lab. Thus Afila can run the whole suite and certify whether the device will be certified. Pre-certification benefits the organizations in saving their costs and time.

Afila’s approach for Pre-certification.
Afila has developed a detailed test plan for all MEF-9 and MEF-14 test cases. Test plan covers certification needs on

MEF-9
MEF-14

The Afila advantage.
Afila has in-house expertise on MEF and can provide a detailed analysis of the failed cases and to speed up the fixing of the cases. The whole suite is automated by Afila and can be executed in a short time. Afila can modify the cases and execute it to custom fit the customer implementation.

Deliverables.
Besides just test case execution, Afila provides a range for reports, which facilitate good tracking of the test process as well as helping in finding the weak areas. Afila provides a Test execution report, Bug report, detailed dumps and logs with analysis of the case for the failed cases and also a Pre-Certification Report at the end of the testing cycle.

What is MEF?

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) was formed in 2001 to develop ubiquitous business services for Enterprise users principally accessed over optical metropolitan networks to connect their Enterprise LANs.
It is a non-profit organization including more than 80 member companies formed for the sole mission of
–Accelerating the worldwide adoption of carrier-class Ethernet networks and services
It is instrumental in defining Carrier Ethernet and its related attributes. It is coming up with various technical specifications to standardize the implementation of carrier Ethernet services.

The following graphs give an idea of the growing awareness in MEF and the steady increase in MEF member companies.