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AAF: Application Authorization Framework

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CDAP: Cask Data Application Platform

• open source framework to build and deploy data applications on Apache™ Hadoop® (CDAP.io site)

CDS: Controller Design Studio

• it is not the tool for the design of controllers instead it is common design tool to support both SDNC and generic L4-7 NF controllers integrated with SDC (e.g. APPC, VFC)
  
• part of CCSDK project,
• see vFW CDS Casablanca - using CDS in context of virtual Firewall use case
  

Chef:

• server configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang. (Wikipedia) (Chef site)

CI/CD: Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

• continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developer working copies to a shared mainline several times a day (Wikipedia)
• continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time (Wikipedia)

CIA: Container Images - see Project Docker/OCI Images - Best Practices and Tools

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• a package defined by OASIS TOSCA. It is a ZIP file that includes a TOSCA template of a Network Service, and all the scripts or files that a VNF needs for the lifecycle from creation to termination.

DAO: Data Access Object (Wikipedia)

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EMS: Element Management System (Wikipedia)

• systems and applications for managing network elements (NE) on the network element-management layer (NEL) of the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) model.

ESR: External System Register

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IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.org)

• a standards body that creates the internet protocol standards.

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• a free and open-source software platform for creating private and public clouds (compute, network, and storage facilities) (https://www.openstack.org/)
• mostly deployed as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). The software platform consists of interrelated components that control hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. Users either manage it through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through a RESTful API.

OOM: ONAP Operations Manager

OPNFV: Open Platform for NFV Project

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• a modular system and a service platform for the Java programming language that implements a complete and dynamic component model (OpenDaylight uses this) (Wikipedia)

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RCT: Reference Connection Tool

Recipe:

• within Chef, the most fundamental configuration element (see the Style Guide)

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SR-IOV: Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization (Wikipedia)

• a network interface that allows the isolation of the PCI Express resources for manageability and performance reasons

SSH: Secure Shell

SSL: Secure Sockets Layer (Wikipedia), precursor to TLS

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• a group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to a software instance on a server (Wikipedia). This terminology is used in OpenStack

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• a Portal GUI to trigger MSO instantiation of services and components

VID: Virtual Infrastructure Deployment (Project)

VIM: Virtualized Infrastructure Manager

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• a virtualized task formerly carried out by proprietary, dedicated network hardware. (Examples: virtual firewall, virtual DNS.)
• in ONAP, a VNF is a Resource
• a VNF is a specific kind of Vendor Software Product

VNFC: Virtual Network Function Component

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