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author | Georg Kunz <georg.kunz@ericsson.com> | 2017-02-07 17:33:35 +0100 |
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committer | Georg Kunz <georg.kunz@ericsson.com> | 2017-02-07 17:33:35 +0100 |
commit | d31cfcc80428088cc4ddbabd721e01ff6265a8fc (patch) | |
tree | 70dbd10a20db685d58f0b3e159f84f6434f96ebe /docs/requirements/glossary.rst | |
parent | 77804f22bf3e76f3080f27f426aa8dbc8c86b87d (diff) |
Moving requirements documentation for Danube
Moving the requirements documentation in order to comply to the
new structure for Danube.
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Signed-off-by: Georg Kunz <georg.kunz@ericsson.com>
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diff --git a/docs/requirements/glossary.rst b/docs/requirements/glossary.rst deleted file mode 100644 index f6d55cd..0000000 --- a/docs/requirements/glossary.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. -.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 - -Definition of terms -=================== - -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:: - - API - Application Programming Interface. - - Cloud Computing - A model that enables access to a shared pool of configurable computing - resources, such as networks, servers, storage, applications, and - services, that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal - management effort or service provider interaction. - - Edge Computing - Edge computing pushes applications, data and computing power (services) - away from centralized points to the logical extremes of a network. - - Instance - Refers in OpenStack terminology to a running VM, or a VM in a known - state such as suspended, that can be used like a hardware server. - - 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. - - SDN - Software-Defined Networking. Emerging architecture that decouples the - network control and forwarding functions, enabling the network control - to become directly programmable and the underlying infrastructure to be - abstracted for applications and network services. - - Server - Computer that provides explicit services to the client software running - on that system, often managing a variety of computer operations. In - OpenStack terminology, a server is a VM instance. - - vForwarder - vForwarder is used as generic and vendor neutral term for a software - packet forwarder. Concrete examples includes OpenContrail vRouter, - OpenvSwitch, Cisco VTF. - - 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 network - Virtual network routes information among the network interfaces of VM - instances and physical network interfaces, providing the necessary - connectivity. - - VM - Virtual Machine. Virtualized computation environment that behaves like a - physical computer/server by modeling the computing architecture of a - real or hypothetical computer. - - VNF - Virtualized Network Function. Implementation of an Network Function - that can be deployed on a Network Function Virtualization - Infrastructure (NFVI). - - VNFC - Virtualized Network Function Component. A VNF may be composed of - multiple components, jointly providing the functionality of the VNF. - - WAN - Wide Area Network. |