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Resource: A It defines a set of capabilities that may be consumed by other Resources and/or Service Components.
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Service: A functionality that can be offered to users, different internal and external users, for different purposes. Services may be used by other Services, but not by Resources or Service Component.
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virtualisation container: According to ETSI NFV, partition of a compute node that provides an isolated virtualized computation environment
Virtualisation Deployment Unit (VDU): According to ETSI NFV, a construct that can be used in an information model, supporting the description of the deployment and operational behaviour of a subset of a VNF, or the entire VNF if it was not componentized in subsets.
Virtualised Network Function (VNF): According to ETSI NFV, implementation of an NF that can be deployed on a Network Function Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVI)
Virtualised Network Function Component (VNFC): According to ETSI NFV, internal component of a VNF providing a defined sub-set of that VNF's functionality, with the main characteristic that a single instance of this component maps 1:1 against a single Virtualisation Container.
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