Abbreviations

Term

Description

3GPP

3rd Generation Partnership Project

AAA

Authentication, Authorisation, and Accounting

AAL

Acceleration Abstraction Layer

AAP

Anuket Assured Program

AArch64

64bit ARM architecture

Acc

Accelerator

AD

Active Directory

ADC

Application Delivery Controller

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AES-NI

AES New Instructions

AF_XDP

Address Family For XDP

AI

Artificial Intelligence

AICPA

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

AMF

Access and Mobility management Function

API

Application Programming Interface

AR

Augmented Reality

ARM

Advanced RISC Machines

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

AS

Application Servers

ASIC

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

AUSF

AUthentication Server Function

AZ

Availability Zone

B2B

Business to Business

B2C

Business to Consumer

BBU

BaseBand Unit

BGCF

Border Gateway Control Function

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol

BGPaaS

BGP as a Service

BIOS

Basic Input Output System

BLOB

Binary Large Object

BM

Bare Metal

BMC

Baseband Management Controller

BMRA

Bare Metal Reference Architecture

BNG

Broadband Network Gateway

BOOTP

Bootstrap Protocol

BRAS

Broadband Remote Access Server

BSS

Business Support Systems

CaaS

Cloud Native Container as a Service

CaaS

Container as a Service

CAPEX

Capital Expenditure

C&V

Compliance & Verification

CCP

Centralised Control Plane

CCS

Converged Charging System

CDN

Content Distribution (or Delivery) Network

CG-NAT

Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation

cgroups

Control Groups

CHF

Charging Function (part of the converged charging system CCS)

CI/CD

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment

CIDR

Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIFS

Common Internet File System

CIM

Cloud Infrastructure Management

CIRV

Common Infrastructure Realization & Validation

CIS

Center for Internet Security

CIT

Cloud Integrity Tool

CLI

Command Line Interface

CM

Configuration Management

CNCF

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

CNF

Cloud Native Network Function

CNI

Container Network Interface

CNTT

Cloud iNfrastructure Telco Taskforce

CP

Control Plane

CPE

Customer Premises Equipment

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CRD

Custom Resource Definition

CRI

Container Runtime Interface

CRI-O

OCI compliant CRI implementation

CRTM

Core Root of Trust for Measurements

CRUD

Create, Read, Update, and Delete

CSA

Cloud Security Alliance

CSAR

(TOSCA) Cloud Service Archive

CSCF

Call Session Control Function

CSI

Container Storage Interface

CSP

Cloud Service Provider

CU

Centralised Unit (O-RAN context)

CVC

(LFN) Compliance Verification Committee

CVE

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

CVSS

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

DANM

Damn, Another Network Manager

DBaaS

Data Base as a Service

DC

Data Center

DCP

Distributed Control Plane

DDoS

Distributed Denial of Service

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DNS

Domain Name System

DPDK

Data Plane Development Kit

DPI

Deep Packet Inspection

DPU

Data Processing Unit

DRA

Diameter Routing Agent

DRAM

Dynamic Random Access Memory

DRTM

Dynamic Root of Trust for Measurements

DSP

Digital Signal Processor

DU

Distributed Unit (O-RAN context)

DVR

Distributed Virtual Routing

E2E

End to End

eBPF

Extended Berkley Packet Filter

EBS

Elastic Block Storage

EFI

(BIOS) Extensible Firmware Interface

eMBB

Enhanced Mobile BroadBand

EMS

Element Management System

EPA

Enhanced Platform Awareness

EPC

Evolved Packet Core

ePDG

Evolved Packet Data GateWay

ESXi

(VMware) ESX Integrated

eTOM

Enhanced Telecom Operations Map

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

EUAG

Linux Foundation Networking End User Advisory Group

EUD

End User Device

EULA

End-User License Agreement

EVPN

Ethernet Virtual Private Network

EVPN

Ethernet VPN

FAT

File Allocation Table

F2F

Face-to-Face

FC

Fiber Channel

FCAPS

Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security

FC-AL

Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop

FCIP

Fibre Channel over IP

FFA

Fixed Function Accelerator

FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Array

FTTx

Fiber to the x

FW

Fire Wall

FWD

(Traffic) ForWarDed

GB

Giga Byte

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation

GFS

Global (Linux) File System

GGSN

Gateway GPRS Support Node

Gi or GiB

Gibibyte (1024^3) bytes

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service

GPS

Global Positioning System

GPU

Graphics Processing Unit

GRE

Generic Routing Encapsulation

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communications, previously Groupe Speciale Mobile

GSMA

GSM Association

GUI

Graphical User Interface

GW

Gateway

HA

High Availability

HBA

Host Bus Adapter

HCP

Hyperscaler Cloud Provider

HDD

Hard Disk Drive

HDFS

Hadoop Distributed File System

HDV

Hardware Delivery Validation

HEM-clouds

Hybrid, Edge, and Multi-clouds

HEMP

Hybrid, Edge, and Multi-Cloud unified management Platform

HLR

Home Location Register

HOT

(OpenStack) Heat Orchestration Templates

HSS

Home Subscriber Server

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

HW

Hardware

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service

IaC (IaaC)

Infrastructure as Code (or “as a”)

IAM

Identity and Access Management

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

iSCSI

Internet Small Computer Systems Interface

ID

Identifier

IDF

(OPNFV) Installer Descriptor File

IdP

Identity Provider

IDRAC

(Dell) Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller

IDS

Intrusion Detection System

ILO

(HPE) Integrated Lights-Out

IMS

IP Multimedia Subsystem

IO

Input/Output

IOMMU

Input/Output Memory Management Unit

IOPS

Input/Output per Second

IoT

Internet of Things

IP

Internet Protocol

IPAM

IP Address Management

IPMI

Intelligent Platform Management Interface

IPS

Intrusion Prevention System

IPSec

Internet Protocol Security

iSCSI

Internet Small Computer Systems Interface

IT

Information Technology

ITIL

IT Infrastructure Library

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation

K8s

Kubernetes

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

KVM

Keyboard, Video and Mouse

LaaS

(Testing) Lab as a Service

LAN

Local Area Network

LB

Load Balancer

LBaaS

Load Balancer as a Service

LCM

LifeCycle Management

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LF

Linux Foundation

LMS

Log Management Service

LTD

Less Trusted Domain

LFN

Linux Foundation Networking

LLDP

Link Layer Discovery Protocol

LMA

Logging, Monitoring, and Analytics

LSR

Label Switching Router

MAAS

(Canonical) Metal as a Service

MAC

Media Access Control

MANO

Management and Orchestration

MC-LAG or MLAG

Multi-chassis Link Aggregation Group

MEC

Multi-access Edge Computing

MGCF

Media Gateway Control Function

MGW

Media GateWay

Mi or MiB

Mebibyte (1024^2)

ML

Machine Learning

ML2 or ML-2

Modular Layer 2

MME

Mobility Management Entity

mMTCs

Massive Machine-Type Communications

MPLS

Multi-Protocol Label Switching

MTD

More Trusted Domain

MRF

Media Resource Function

MSAN

MultiService Access Node

MSC

Mobile Switching Center

MTAS

Mobile Telephony Application Server

MVNO

Mobile Virtual Network Operator

NAS

Network Attached Storage

NaaS

Network as a Service

NAT

Network Address Translation

NBI

North Bound Interface

NEF

Network Exposure Function

NF

Network Function

NFD

Node Feature Discovery

NFP

Network Forwarding Path

NFR

Non Functional Requirements

NFS

Network File System

NFV

Network Function Virtualisation

NFVI

Network Function Virtualisation Infrastructure

NFVO

Network Function Virtualisation Orchestrator

NIC

Network Interface Card

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NMS

Network Management System

NPL

Network Programming Language

NPN

Non-Public Network

NPU

Neural Processing Unit

NR

New Radio (5G context)

NRF

Network Repository Function

NS

Network Service

NSSF

Network Slice Selection Function

NTP

Network Time Protocol

NUMA

Non-Uniform Memory Access

NVMe

Non-Volatile Memory Express

NW

Network

OAM

Operations, Administration and Maintenance

OCI

Open Container Initiative

OCS

Online Charging system

ODIM

Open Distributed Infrastructure Management

OFCS

Offline Charging System

OLT

Optical Line Termination

ONAP

Open Network Automation Platform

ONF

Open Networking Forum

OOB

Out of Band

OPEX

Operational Expenditure

OPG

(GSMA) Operator Platform Group

OPNFV

Open Platform for NFV

ORAN

Open Radio Access Network

O-RAN

Open RAN

OS

Operating System

OSD

(Ceph) Object Storage Daemon

OSS

Operational Support Systems

OSSA

OpenStack Security Advisories

OSTK

OpenStack

OVP

OPNFV Verified Program

OVS

Open Virtual Switch

OWASP

Open Web Application Security Project

PaaS

Platform as a Service

PCF

Policy Control Function

PCIe

Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

PCI-PT

PCIe PassThrough

PCR

Platform Configuration Register

PCRF

Policy and Charging Rules Function

PDF

(OPNFV) Pod Descriptor File

PF

Physical Function

PGW

Packet data network GateWay

PGW-C

PGW Control plane

PGW-U

PGW User plane

PIM

Privileged Identity Management

PLMN

Public Land Mobile Network

PM

Performance Measurements

POD

Point of Delivery

PRD

Permanent Reference Document

PTP

Precision Time Protocol

PV

Persistent Volumes

PVC

Persistent Volume Claims

PXE

Preboot Execution Environment

QCW

QEMU copy-on-write

QEMU

Quick EMUlator

QoS

Quality of Service

R/W

Read/Write

RA

Reference Architecture

RADOS

Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM

Random Access Memory

RAN

Radio Access Network

RAW

Raw disk format

RBAC

Role-bases Access Control

RC

Reference Conformance

Repo

Repository

RFC

Request for Change

RFC

Request for Comments

RGW

Residential GateWay

RI

Reference Implementation

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computing

RM

Reference Model

ROI

Return on Investment

RR

Route Reflector

RTM

Requirements Traceability Matrix

RTM

Root of Trust for Measurements

RTT

Round Trip Time

RU

Radio Unit (O-RAN context)

S3

(Amazon) Simple Storage Service

SA

Service Assurance

SaaS

Software as a Service

SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language

SAN

Storage Area Network

SAS

Serial Attached SCSI

SATA

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

SBA

Service Based Architecture

SBC

Session Border Controller

SBI

South Bound Interface

SCAP

Security Content Automation Protocol

SDF

(OPNFV) Scenario Descriptor File

SDK

Software Development Kit

SDN

Software-Defined Networking

SDNC

SDN Controller

SDNo

SDN Overlay

SDNu

SDN Underlay

SDO

Standard Development Organisation

SDS

Software-Defined Storage

SD-WAN

Software Defined Wide Area Network

Sec

Security

Sec-GW

Security GateWay

SF

Service Function

SFC

Service Function Chaining

SFF

Service Function Forwarder

SFP

Service Function Paths

SGSN

Serving GPRS Support Node

SGW

Serving GateWay

SGW-C

SGW Control plane

SGW-U

SGW User plane

SIEM

Security Information and Event Monitoring

SIG

Special Interest Group

SIP

Session Initiation Protocol

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SME

Subject Matter Expert

SMF

Session Management Function

SMS

Short Message Service

SMSC

SMS Center

SMT

Simultaneous Multi-Threading

SNAT

Source Network Address Translation

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SOC

System and Organization Controls

SONiC

Software for Open Networking in the Cloud

SR-IOV

Single Root Input Output Virtualisation

SRTM

Static Root of Trust for Measurements

SRV

(Traffic) client-SeRVer traffic

SSD

Solid State Drive

SSDF

Secure Software Development Framework

SSH

Secure SHell protocol

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

SUT

System Under Test

SW

Software

TCDI

Trusted Cross-Domain Interface

TBC

To Be Confirmed

TC

Test Case

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TEC

(GSMA) Telco Edge Cloud

TF

Tungsten Fabric

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TIP

Telecom Infra Project

TLB

Translation Lookaside Buffers

TLS

Transport Layer Security

TOR

Top of Rack

TOSCA

Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications

TPM

Trusted Platform Module

TTL

Time To Live

TUG

(CNCF) Telco User Group

UDM

Unified Data Management

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UDR

Unified Data Repository

UEFI

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

UHD

Ultra High Definition

UI

User Interface

UPF

User Plane Function

uRLLC

Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications

V2I

Vehicle to Infrastructure

V2N

Vehicle to Network

V2P

Vehicle to Pedestrian

V2V

Vehicle to Vehicle

V2X

Vehicle-to-everything

VA

Virtual Application

VAS

Value Added Service

V&V

Verification And Validation

vCPU

Virtual CPU

VF

Virtual Function

VI

Vendor Implementation

vIDS

Virtualised IDS

VIM

Virtualised Infrastructure Manager

vIPS

Virtualised IPS

VLAN

Virtual LAN

VM

Virtual Machine

VMDK

VMware Virtual Machine Disk File

vNAS

virtual Network Attached Storage

VMM

Virtual Machine Monitor (or Manager)

VNF

Virtualised Network Function

VNFC

Virtualised Network Function Component

VNFM

Virtualisedl Network Function Manager

VNI

VXLAN Network Identifier

vNIC

Virtual Network Interface Card

VoLTE

Voice over LTE

VPN

Virtual Private Network

VPP

Vector Packet Processing

VR

Virtual Reality

vRAN

Virtualised Radio Access Network

VRF

Virtual Routing and Forwarding

VRRP

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

VTEP

Virtual Termination End Point

VTP

(ONAP) VNF Test Platform

VxLAN

Virtual Extensible LAN

vXYZ

virtual XYZ, e.g., as in vNIC

WG

Working Group

Wi-Fi

Wireless Fidelity

WLAN

Wireless Local Area Network

WLC

Wireless LAN Controller

WS

WorkStream

XDP

eXpress Data Path

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

ZAP

Zed Attack Proxy

ZTA

Zero Trust Architecture