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author | Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko.vancsa@ericsson.com> | 2016-04-19 22:44:48 +0200 |
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committer | Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko.vancsa@ericsson.com> | 2016-04-19 22:48:19 +0200 |
commit | 7018a03f712c4f4e0a96365a11062e07b413a4b7 (patch) | |
tree | f9a2ba578abda44c309fb64335dc152b74478f40 /docs/requirements/glossary.rst | |
parent | 2f74a043af57a43ca5cb2e151273d60f516ce113 (diff) |
Add initial requirements document structure
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diff --git a/docs/requirements/glossary.rst b/docs/requirements/glossary.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea731f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/requirements/glossary.rst @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + +**Definition of terms** + +Different SDOs and communities use different terminology related to +NFV/Cloud/SDN. This list tries to define an OPNFV terminology, +mapping/translating the OPNFV terms to terminology used in other contexts. + + +.. glossary:: + + NFV + Network Function Virtualization + + NFVI + Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure; totality of all hardware + and software components which build up the environment in which VNFs are + deployed. + + VIM + Virtualized Infrastructure Manager; functional block that is responsible + for controlling and managing the NFVI compute, storage and network + resources, usually within one operator's Infrastructure Domain, e.g. + NFVI Point of Presence (NFVI-PoP). + + Virtual Machine (VM) + Virtualized computation environment that behaves very much like a + physical computer/server. + + Virtual network + Virtual network routes information among the network interfaces of VM + instances and physical network interfaces, providing the necessary + connectivity. + + VNF + Virtualized Network Function. Implementation of an Network Function that + can be deployed on a Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure + (NFVI). |