SDN-R Glossary

Abbreviation

Description    

A&AI

Active and Available Inventory 

AAA

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting)  

AEC

AT&T Edge Cloud

AIC

AT&T Integrated Cloud  

BBU

Base Band Unit

CCSDK

Common Controller Software Development Kit

CDR

Charging Data Record   

Cinder

OpenStack Block Storage

CLAMP

Closed Loop Automation Management Platform

CN

Core Network

CU

Centralized Unit

DCAE

Data Collection Analytics & Events     

DIAMETER

Protocol intended to provided Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA)       

DMaaP

Data Movement as a Platform

DMIP

Device Management Interface Profile

DU

Distributed Unit

ECA

External Content Adapter       

ECOMP

Enhanced, Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy

ENUM

Electronic Number Mapping      

FM

Fault Management

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name    

Glance

OpenStack Image repository     

GPB

Global Proto Buff

GNFC

Global Network Function Controller

GUI

Graphical User Interface       

Horizon

OpenStack GUI  

HTTP

Hypertext Transport Protocol   

ICMMS

Syniverse Inter-carrier messaging solution     

Keystone

OpenStack Authorization Project

KVM

Kernel-based Virtual machine   

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol  

LTM

Local Traffic Manager  

MIND

Master Integrated Network Directory    

MSO

Master Service Orchestrator    

Neutron

OpenStack Networking   

Nova

OpenStack compute

NFMF

Network Function Management Function

NSI

Network Slice Subnet Instance

NSMF

Network Slice Management Function

NSSMF

Network Slice Subnet Management Function

ONAP

Open Network Automation Platform       

OpenStack

A cloud operating system       

Originator

MMSC Any Non-AT&T MMSC that originally sent the request to ICMMS    

PM

Performance Management

PNF

Physical Network Function

PnP

Plug and Play

PRH

Phyiical Network Function Registration Handler

Pub/Sub

Publisher/Subscriber

RAN

Radio Access Network

RU

Radio Unit

RRH

Remote Radio Head

SDN

Software-defined networking    

SDN-C

SDN-Controller 

SDN-R

SDN-Radio, Router, ROADM - a set of model-driven application based on SDN-C.

SO 

Service Orchestrator

SON

Self-Organizing Networks

SRS

Software Requirements Specification    

Swift

OpenStack Object storage       

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TN

Transport Network

UI

User Interface 

UUI

User-to-User Information

UX

User Experience

VES

VNF Event Stream

VNF

Virtual Network Function

xNF

Whatever (physical or virtual) Network Function