Abbreviations ============= ============== ========================================================================== **Term** **Description** ============== ========================================================================== 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project AAA Authentication, Authorisation, and Accounting 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 AI Artificial Intelligence 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 SSH Secure SHell protocol SSL Secure Sockets Layer SUT System Under Test SW Software 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 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 XML eXtensible Markup Language ============== ==========================================================================