Abbreviations

Abbreviation	Description
AAF	Application Authorization Framework
A&AI	Active & Available Inventory
AAA	Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
AEC	AT&T Edge Cloud
AIC	AT&T Integrated Cloud
AID	Architecture Integration Document
APPC	Application Controller
BPEL	Business Process Execution Language
BPMN	Business Process Model and Notation or Business Process Management Notation
BRMS	Business Rules Management System
BSS	Business Support System
CCSDK	Common Controller SDK project
CDAP	Cask Data Application Platform
CDR	Charging Data Record
CDS	Controller Design Studio
CI/CD	Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
Cinder	OpenStack Block Storage
CL	Control Loop
CLAMP	Closed Loop Automation Management Platform (project)
CLI	Command Line Interface (project)
CMA	Change Management Application (within ONAP)
CN	Core Network
CNF	Cloud Native network Function.
COE	Container Orchestration Engine
CPE	Customer Premise Equipment
CSAR	Cloud Service ARchive (link)
CU	Centralized Unit
DAO	Data Access Object
DCAE	Data Collection Analytics and Events
DDoS	Distributed Denial-of-Service attack
DG	Directed Graph
DG Builder	Directed Graph Builder
DMaaP	Data Movement as a Platform
DME	Direct Messaging Engine (common service within ONAP)
DMIP	Device Management Interface Profile
DNS	Domain Name System
DPDK	Data Plane Development Kit
DU	Distributed Unit
ECA	External Content Adapter
ECOMP	Enhanced, Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy
EELF	Event&Error LoggingFramework
EMS	Element Management System
ESR	External System Register
ETSI	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EUAG	ONAP End User Advisory Group
FCAPS	Fault Configuration Accounting Performance Security
FM	Fault Management
FQDN	Fully Qualified Domain Name
GBP	Group-Based Policy
Glance	OpenStack Image repository
GNFC	Genric Network Function Controller
GUI	Graphical User Interface
HAS	Homing and Allocation Service
HDFS	Hadoop Distributed File System
Horizon	OpenStack GUI
HPA	Hardware Platform Awareness
HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protococol
HV VES	High Volume Virtual function Event Stream
IAM/IDAM	Identity and Access Management
ICE	Incubation and Certification Environment
ICMMS	Syniverse Inter-carrier messaging solution
IDS	Intrusion Detection System
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IKE	Internet KeyExchange
IPS	Intrusion Prevention System
IPSEC	Internet Protocol Security
JAR	Java Archive
JSC	JavaServiceContainer
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation
Keystone	OpenStack Authorization Project
KVM	Kernel-based Virtual machine
LCM	Life Cycle Management
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LFN CVC	Linux Foundation Networking Compliance/Verification Committee
LFN CVP	Linux Foundation Networking Compliance/Verification Program
LRM	Local Resource Monitor
M0	Release Kick-off milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
M1	Release Planning milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
M2	Release Functionality Freeze milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
M3	Release API Freeze milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
M4	Release Code Freeze milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
MACD	(Vendor specific) Move Add Change Delete/Disconnect
MANO	MANagement and Organization of NFV
MD-SAL	Model Driven Service Abstraction Layer
MIND	Master Integrated Network Directory
MR	Message Router (a Common Service of ONAP)
MOP	Method of Procedure
MOTS	Mechanized Operations Tracking System
MSB	Microservice Bus
MSO	Master Service Orchestrator
MVP	Minimum ViableProduct
NAI	Network Artificial Intelligence
NANCSP	Network Cloud Service Provider
NBI	North Bound Interface
NEP	Network Equipment Provider
NETCONF	Network Configuration Protocol
Neutron	OpenStack Networking
NFMF	Network Function Management Function
NFV	Network Function Virtualization
NFVI	Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure
NOD	Network On Demand
Nova	OpenStack compute
NS	Network Services
NS	(Vendor Specific) New Start
NSI	Network Slice Subnet Instance
NSMF	Network Slice Management Function
NSSMF	Network Slice Subnet Management Function
O-RAN	O-RAN Alliance , OperatorDefined NextGeneration RadioAccessNetworksAlliance
O-RAN-SC	O-RAN SoftwareCommunity
OAM	Operation and Maintenance
OA&M	Operations, Administration and Management
OMF	Operational Management Framework (of ONAP)
OMSA	ONAP Microservice Architecture
ONAP	Open Network Automation Platform
OOF	ONAP Optimization Framework
ODL	OpenDaylight
OOM	ONAP Operations Manager
OpenStack	A cloud operating system
OPNFV	Open Platform for NFV Project
Originato	MMSC Any Non-AT&T MMSC that originally sent the request to ICMMS
OSAM	Open Source Access Manager
OSC	O-RAN Software Community or Optical Supervisory Channel
OSS	Operations Support System
PAP	Policy Administration Point (ONAP)
PCE	Path Computation and Element (ONAP)
PCI	Physical Cell ID
pCPE	physical Customer Premise Equipment
PDP-x	Policy Decision Point - XACML (ONAP)
PDP-d	Policy Decision Point - Drools (ONAP)
PM	Performance Management
PNDA	OpensourcePlatform for Network DataAnalytics
PNF	Physical Network Function
PnP	Plug and Play
PO	Platform Orchestrator
PoC	Proof of Concept
POMBA	Post Orchestration Model Based Audit
PRH	Phyiical Network Function Registration Handler
Pub/Sub	Publisher/Subscriber
RAN	Radio Access Network
RCA	Root Cause Analysis
RCT	Reference Connection Tool
REST	Representational State Transfer
RESTCONF	A protocol based on HTTP for configuring data defined in YANG
RO	Resource Orchestrator
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RU	Radio Unit
RRH	Remote Radio Head
S3P	Stability, Security, Scalability, Performance
SDC	Service Design and Creation (component of ONAP for visual modeling and design)
SDN	Software-defined networking
SDN-C	SDN-Controller
SDN-R	SDN-Radio, Router, ROADM - a set of model-driven application based on SDN-C
SDN-GP	Software Defined Network - Global Platform
SEBA	SDN-Enabled Broadband Access, see also
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SLI	Service Logic Interpreter
SME	Subject Matter Expert
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SO	Service Orchestrator (project)
SON	Self-Organizing Networks
SOT	Source Of Truth
SR-IOV	Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization
SRS	Software Requirements Specification
SSL	SecureSocketsLayer
SUPP	(Vendor Specific) short for supplement, changing a connection before activation
Swagger	legacy name for the OpenAPI Specification
Swift	OpenStack Object storage
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TEM	Telecom Electronics Manufacturer
TLS	Transport Layer Security
TN	Transport Network
TOSCA	Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications
TPS	Transactions Per Second
TSC	Technical Steering Committee
U-UI	Usecase UserInterface
UI	User Interface
UUI	User to User Information
UX	User Experience
vCE	virtual CE (Customer Edge) router (an example VNF)
vCPE	Virtual Customer Premise Equipment
vDNS	Virtual Domain Name Server (an example VNF)
VDU	Virtualisation Deployment Unit
VES	Virtual function EventStream
vF	Virtual Firewall (an example VNF)
VF	Virtual Function
VFC	Virtual Function Controller
VFC	Virtual Function Component (Resource Onboarding)
vfModule	Virtual Function Module
VID	Virtual Instantiation Deployment
VID	Virtual Infrastructure Deployment (Project)
VIM	Virtualized Infrastructure Manager
VLAN	Virtual Local Area Network
VM	Virtual Machine
VNF	Virtual Network Function
VNFC	Virtual Network Function Component
VNFD	VNF Descriptor
VNFM	VNF Manager
VNO	Virtual Network Operator
vPE	virtual PE (Provider Edge) router (an example of a VNF)
VPP	Vector Packet Processing
VSP	Vendor Software Product (from SDC Demo Guide)
VTP	VNF Test Platform
VVP	VNF Validation Program
WAR	Web application Archive
xNF	The combination of PNF and VNF; Network Function
YANG	Yet Another Next Generation - a Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)