Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa don't have uniform broadband infrastructure in place capable of providing or delivering Ethernet services. As countries in the developed world continued to deploy applications based on software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), sub-Saharan countries, which includes East Africa will also have to do the same. One of the steps to make this possible is with MEF CE 2.0 E-Access certification, which was given to DataNet Africa with the help of ADVA Optical Networking and its ADVA FSP 150 intelligent Ethernet access solution line.