By Angie Kronenberg, President, INCOMPAS

With the National Football League (NFL) kicking off its regular season in September, we will once again witness how the American football bring friends, family and neighbors together, creating an exciting environment within local communities.

As networks become increasingly complex, it is imperative that telecommunications companies equip their network engineers with the most powerful testing tools available. The risk in not doing so? Facing a crisis like the one the Rogers team was dealt.

MEF and CyberRatings announced the kick-off of its beta program for certification of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) products and services. Participants in the beta program include MEF Technology Advisory Board (TAB) member companies Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, Versa Networks, VMware, as well as Palo Alto Networks.

At the MEF Awards ceremony, held in Dallas within the MEF Global Naas Event, the global industry association recognized Sparkle as best European service provider in the areas of SD-WAN, SASE and MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet on Demand services, while honoring Daniele Mancuso, Chief Product Management, with the “Michael Howard Industry Impact Award” for his outstanding contribution to the development of the telecom sector.

MEF announced the formation of an Enterprise Leadership Council (ELC), comprised of senior executives representing all major enterprise vertical markets with mission-critical network infrastructures. The ELC will bring important end user perspective and involvement to MEF.

MEF announced the availability of its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) Industry Blueprint designed to help service providers develop, market and deliver the next generation of NaaS offerings.

As we head into Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, it’s an important moment to recognize the importance of proper cybersecurity threat protection as consumers, small businesses and enterprise-scale organizations. 

As we head into Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, it’s an important moment to recognize the importance of proper cybersecurity threat protection as consumers, small businesses and enterprise-scale organizations. 

Netcracker Technology has just announced its pivotal participation in the forthcoming MEF Global NaaS Event, taking place from October 2 to 4 in Dallas.