In this first episode of Lightwave+BTR's podcast series, The Broadband Pulse, we talked with MEF's CTO, Pascal Menezes, about the organization's goals for this year and into 2025.

MEF's big focus in 2024 is helping service providers enhance their Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) offerings. As MEF sees it, NaaS combines on-demand connectivity, application assurance, cybersecurity, and multi-cloud-based services delivered across a standards-based automated ecosystem of partners. It recently announced a joint initiative with the TM Forum aimed at aligning their respective API and product and service models.

Listen to this episode to hear from Pascal as he addresses these new networking trends while providing a sneak peek at the Global NaaS Event (GNE) event coming this fall.

Pascal Menezes, CTO at MEF, is a seasoned expert with a laser focus on cutting-edge technologies. His areas of expertise encompass SD-WAN, SASE, cloud-scale architectures, real-time media networks, SDN, NFV, and LSO. With a decade at Microsoft Skype for Business Global Carrier Group, and a track record of success in five startups, Pascal has earned global thought leadership awards, presented at renowned events, contributed to industry standards in the IETF, MEF, and Broadband Forum (MPLS), holds 30+ patents. Pascal hosts MEF's Executives at the Edge podcast. Get access to the 2024 MEF State of the Industry Report on SASE here.