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15 This glossary provides a common definition of phrases and words commonly used
25 A river running through Tuscany and the name of the first OPNFV release.
29 Application Programming Interface
33 Advanced Vector Extensions 2 is an instruction set extension for x86.
43 A river running through Asia and the name of the Second OPNFV release.
47 Basic Input/Output System
51 Build in Jenkins is a version of a program.
55 Bogomips is the number of million times per second a processor can do
65 Cache Automation Technology
69 Community Enterprise Operating System is a Linux distribution
73 Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
77 Command Line Interface
81 A river in Argentina and the name of the Third OPNFV release.
85 Compute is an OpenStack service which offers many configuration options
86 which may be deployment specific.
90 Console is display screen.
93 Central Processing Unit
102 The data plane is the part of a network that carries user traffic.
106 Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of
111 Documentation/documents
115 Data Plane Development Kit
119 Deep Packet Inspection
123 Differentiated Services Code Point
132 Flavors are templates used to define VM configurations.
136 Provides an intuitive, GUI-driven experience for deployment and management of OpenStack
145 Horizon is an OpenStack service which serves as an UI.
149 A hypervisor, also called a virtual machine manager, is a program that allows
150 multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.
159 Internet Group Management Protocol
163 Input-Output Memory Management Unit
167 Input/Output Operations Per Second
171 Interrupt ReQuest is an interrupt request sent from the hardware level to
176 IRQ affinity is the set of CPU cores that can service that interrupt.
185 Jenkins is an open source continuous integration tool written in Java.
189 JIRA is a bug tracking software.
193 Time difference in packet inter-arrival time to their destination can be called jitter.
197 A jump host or jump server or jumpbox is a computer on a network typically
198 used to manage devices in a separate security zone.
207 The kernel is a computer program that constitutes the central core of a
208 computer's operating system.
217 The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from source to destination is
222 libvirt is an open source API, daemon and management tool for managing
223 platform virtualization.
232 Migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment
233 to another operating environment.
242 Network Functions Virtualisation, an industry initiative to leverage
243 virtualisation technologies in carrier networks.
247 Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
251 Network Interface Controller
255 Non-Uniform Memory Access
264 Open Platform for NFV, an open source project developing an NFV reference
265 platform and features.
274 Is a lighthouse and is a project deals with developing an OPNFV lab
275 infrastructure that is geographically and technically diverse.
279 A suite of plugins in Jenkins that lets you orchestrate automation.
283 OPNFV provides an open source platform for deploying NFV solutions that
284 leverages investments from a community of developers and solution providers.
288 A Pool is a set of resources that are kept ready to use, rather than acquired
289 on use and released afterwards.
298 QEMU is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware
308 Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
312 REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style, and an
313 approach to communications that is often used in the development of web
323 Refers to altering the size.
327 Works with/for master.where master has unidirectional control over one or
332 Single root IO- Virtualization.
336 A spinlock is a lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply
337 wait in a loop while repeatedly checking if the lock is available.
341 Refers to computer components which store some data.
350 A Tenant is a group of users who share a common access with specific
351 privileges to the software instance.
355 A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts
356 do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required.
360 Technical Steering Committee
369 A virtual local area network, typically an isolated ethernet network.
373 Virtual machine, an emulation in software of a computer system.
377 Virtual network function, typically a networking application or function
378 running in a virtual environment.
387 Helps to reduce the network traffic by just sending the updated data
396 Yardstick is an infrastructure verification. It is an OPNFV testing project.
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