Wire the WAN
from IP to NaaS
Master IP addressing and OSPF routing, then climb the full MEF-NF stack — SDN, NFV & Telco Cloud, Carrier Ethernet, SD-WAN (MEF 70.1) and LSO Sonata — in five half-days of deeply technical, hands-on training.
CoS · Service OAM
composer
One course, two engines: packet-level IP mastery + the MEF software-network stack
Most network-foundations courses stop at slideware. This one makes you configure and verify every claim: you subnet real address blocks, form OSPF adjacencies in FRRouting, push OpenFlow rules from a controller, instantiate containerized network functions, design bandwidth-profiled Carrier Ethernet services, and drive the MEF LSO Sonata API end-to-end — the exact skill set the MEF-NF exam certifies.
- Network engineers moving from box-by-box CLI into software-defined, service-oriented networking
- NOC / service-desk engineers who need to speak MEF service attributes with carriers
- Architects & pre-sales positioning NaaS, SD-WAN and Carrier Ethernet offers
- Exam candidates targeting the MEF-NF (Network Foundations) certificate
- Basic familiarity with Ethernet and IP concepts (Day 1 rebuilds them rigorously)
- Comfort with a Linux shell — labs run in GNS3/Containerlab, Docker and Mininet
- No vendor certification required — the course is vendor-neutral, standards-first
- A working multi-router OSPF network you built and debugged yourself
- A Carrier Ethernet + SD-WAN service design written in MEF attribute language
- A successful Sonata POQ → Quote → Order API run against a mock provider
- A personal MEF-NF study plan from your practice-exam domain scores
Eight verifiable outcomes
Straight from the course charter — each one is exercised in a lab or the practice exam, not just presented.
Design an IP addressing plan and configure & verify Layer 3 routing — static and OSPF — in an emulated multi-router network.
Explain digital transformation, the software-driven network vision, and Network as a Service (NaaS).
Describe SDN architecture: control-/data-plane separation, controllers, and northbound/southbound interfaces (OpenFlow, NETCONF).
Explain NFV and Telco Cloud: VNFs and CNFs, the ETSI MANO framework, and virtualization vs cloud-native.
Differentiate Carrier Ethernet service types (E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, E-Access) and distinguish Layer 2 from Layer 3 connectivity services.
Describe SD-WAN architecture and service components and the MEF SD-WAN standard — MEF 70.1.
Explain the LSO reference architecture and the role of the Sonata API in inter-provider automation.
Position all MEF-NF domains within the MEF 3.0 / NaaS framework and be ready to sit the MEF-NF exam.
MEF-NF domain map — how the week fits together
Day 1 builds the IP/WAN prerequisite every other domain assumes. Days 2–4 cover the six MEF-NF domains under the MEF 3.0 / NaaS umbrella. Day 5 turns it into exam points.
Five half-days, four labs, one exam
Each day is a node-based microsite page: pick any topic in the left tree and it opens as its own animated deep-dive panel.
A 100% open-source lab stack
No vendor licences, no cloud bill — every lab runs on your laptop and every tool is production-grade.
| Lab | You build | Deliverables | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
Lab 1 · Day 1 | 3-router VLSM + static → OSPF migration, capture Hello/LSA | Addressing plan · OSPF configs · annotated pcap | GNS3/Containerlab · FRR · Wireshark |
Lab 2 · Day 2 | Mininet topology driven from an SDN controller; re-route centrally | Flow definitions · path-change demo | Mininet · ONOS/ODL · OVS |
Lab 3 · Day 3 | Containerized router/firewall NF + a 4-site E-LAN design | Running NF · CE design template · BW profile sheet | Docker · FRR/VyOS · draw.io |
Lab 4 · Day 4 | App-aware SD-WAN policy + Sonata POQ→Quote→Order run | MEF 70.1 policy doc · API collection · validated workflow | Sonata SDK · Prism · Hoppscotch/Bruno |
From longest-prefix match to NaaS orchestration in one week
Five half-days. Four labs you keep. One certification target. Start with the packet, finish with the API that orders the service carrying it.