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authorGeorg Kunz <georg.kunz@ericsson.com>2016-07-07 16:00:51 +0200
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**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.
+Different standards developing organizations and communities use different
+terminology related to Network Function Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and
+Software Defined Networking. This list defines the terminology in the contexts
+of this document.
.. glossary::
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VM
Virtual Machine. Virtualized computation environment that behaves like a
- physical computer/server by (re-)creating the computing architecture of a
+ physical computer/server by modeling the computing architecture of a
real or hypothetical computer.
Virtual network