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16 This glossary provides a common definition of phrases and words commonly used
26 A river running through Tuscany and the name of the first OPNFV release.
30 OPNFV Installation and Deployment tool based on the RDO Project's Triple-O
31 OpenStack installation tool.
35 Application Programming Interface
39 Advanced Vector Extensions 2 is an instruction set extension for x86.
49 A river running through Asia and the name of the Second OPNFV release.
53 Basic Input/Output System
57 Build in Jenkins is a version of a program.
61 Bogomips is the number of million times per second a processor can do
71 Cache Automation Technology
75 Community Enterprise Operating System is a Linux distribution
79 Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
83 Command Line Interface
87 A river in Argentina and the name of the Third OPNFV release.
91 Compute is an OpenStack service which offers many configuration options
92 which may be deployment specific.
96 Console is display screen.
99 Central Processing Unit
108 A river in Europe and name of the Fourth OPNFV release.
112 The data plane is the part of a network that carries user traffic.
116 Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of
121 Documentation/documents
125 Data Plane Development Kit
129 Deep Packet Inspection
133 Differentiated Services Code Point
142 Longest river of Western Asia and name of the fifth OPNFV release.
151 Flavors are templates used to define VM configurations.
155 Provides an intuitive, GUI-driven experience for deployment and management of OpenStack
164 Horizon is an OpenStack service which serves as an UI.
168 A hypervisor, also called a virtual machine manager, is a program that allows
169 multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.
178 Internet Group Management Protocol
182 Input-Output Memory Management Unit
186 Input/Output Operations Per Second
190 Interrupt ReQuest is an interrupt request sent from the hardware level to
195 IRQ affinity is the set of CPU cores that can service that interrupt.
204 Jenkins is an open source continuous integration tool written in Java.
208 JIRA is a bug tracking software.
212 Time difference in packet inter-arrival time to their destination can be called jitter.
216 A jump host or jump server or jumpbox is a computer on a network typically
217 used to manage devices in a separate security zone.
226 The kernel is a computer program that constitutes the central core of a
227 computer's operating system.
236 The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from source to destination is
241 libvirt is an open source API, daemon and management tool for managing
242 platform virtualization.
251 Migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment
252 to another operating environment.
261 Network Functions Virtualisation, an industry initiative to leverage
262 virtualisation technologies in carrier networks.
266 Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
270 Network Interface Controller
274 Non-Uniform Memory Access
283 Open Platform for NFV, an open source project developing an NFV reference
284 platform and features.
293 Is a lighthouse and is a project deals with developing an OPNFV lab
294 infrastructure that is geographically and technically diverse.
298 A suite of plugins in Jenkins that lets you orchestrate automation.
302 OPNFV provides an open source platform for deploying NFV solutions that
303 leverages investments from a community of developers and solution providers.
307 A Pool is a set of resources that are kept ready to use, rather than acquired
308 on use and released afterwards.
317 QEMU is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware
327 Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
331 REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style, and an
332 approach to communications that is often used in the development of web
342 Refers to altering the size.
346 Works with/for master.where master has unidirectional control over one or
351 Single root IO- Virtualization.
355 A spinlock is a lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply
356 wait in a loop while repeatedly checking if the lock is available.
360 Refers to computer components which store some data.
369 A Tenant is a group of users who share a common access with specific
370 privileges to the software instance.
374 A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts
375 do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required.
379 Technical Steering Committee
388 A virtual local area network, typically an isolated ethernet network.
392 Virtual machine, an emulation in software of a computer system.
396 Virtual network function, typically a networking application or function
397 running in a virtual environment.
406 Helps to reduce the network traffic by just sending the updated data
415 Yardstick is an infrastructure verification. It is an OPNFV testing project.