Mplify Exceeds 450 Carrier Ethernet Certifications for AI Infrastructure

BOSTON, Sept. 22, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Mplify, a global alliance advancing network-as-a-service (NaaS) for artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-ready digital infrastructure, has announced a significant milestone: more than 450 services and technologies from leading organizations now hold Mplify Carrier Ethernet for Business certification. This achievement underscores the continued relevance and scale of Carrier Ethernet as automated connectivity and distributed enterprise AI infrastructure gain traction.

Carrier Ethernet is essential for connecting diverse AI environments across data centers, clouds, edge environments, and enterprise locations. As power and GPU availability, the location of enterprise data, and sovereignty requirements spread AI infrastructure, the wide area network (WAN) becomes a critical component of the AI production system. Carrier Ethernet offers predictable performance, engineered paths, and operational accountability, making it a vital building block for these distributed resources.

The new Mplify Carrier Ethernet for Business certification supersedes the previous MEF 3.0 CE certification and provides independent third-party validation of performance and conformance to Mplify standards. For service and technology providers, this certification offers a recognized market credential that instills confidence in customers and ecosystem partners. Certified offerings meet defined industry criteria, ensuring that they meet the demands of distributed AI infrastructure.

Mplify's Carrier Ethernet for Business certification is grounded in more than two decades of industry leadership. It is built on established standards and test requirements, simplifying interconnection and service delivery across networks. This certification program is designed to be automation-ready, enabling the provisioning, scaling, and assurance of Carrier Ethernet services through NaaS.

For distributed enterprise AI, Carrier Ethernet plays an expanding role at the inter-data-center layer. It can connect suitable AI environments across metro, regional, and selected long-distance routes with committed capacity and defined service attributes. Local GPU fabrics continue to support tightly coupled communication within GPU systems and data centers.

Mplify is the global alliance advancing NaaS for AI and AI-ready digital infrastructure. It helps members compete beyond the limits of their own networks and capabilities by expanding reach, combining services and expertise with ecosystem partners, and enabling trusted, standards-based automation across organizations. Its community spans service and cloud providers, data center operators, internet exchanges, cybersecurity and technology companies, and enterprises. Together, these organizations shape standardized operational models and APIs, network services, trust frameworks, and certification programs that turn independent capabilities into an interoperable global ecosystem for the AI era.

The certification supersedes the previous MEF 3.0 CE certification and provides independent third-party validation of performance and conformance to Mplify standards. For service and technology providers, it offers a recognized market credential that gives customers and ecosystem partners confidence that certified offerings meet defined industry criteria. Carrier Ethernet for Business establishes a standards baseline for Carrier Ethernet for AI, the next evolution of the Mplify Carrier Ethernet certification program.