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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 Application Programming Interface
34 Advanced Vector Extensions 2 is an instruction set extension for x86.
44 A river running through Asia and the name of the Second OPNFV release.
48 Basic Input/Output System
52 Build in Jenkins is a version of a program.
56 Bogomips is the number of million times per second a processor can do
66 Cache Automation Technology
70 Community Enterprise Operating System is a Linux distribution
74 Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
78 Command Line Interface
82 A river in Argentina and the name of the Third OPNFV release.
86 Compute is an OpenStack service which offers many configuration options
87 which may be deployment specific.
91 Console is display screen.
94 Central Processing Unit
103 The data plane is the part of a network that carries user traffic.
107 Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of
112 Documentation/documents
116 Data Plane Development Kit
120 Deep Packet Inspection
124 Differentiated Services Code Point
133 Flavors are templates used to define VM configurations.
137 Provides an intuitive, GUI-driven experience for deployment and management of OpenStack
146 Horizon is an OpenStack service which serves as an UI.
150 A hypervisor, also called a virtual machine manager, is a program that allows
151 multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.
160 Internet Group Management Protocol
164 Input-Output Memory Management Unit
168 Input/Output Operations Per Second
172 Interrupt ReQuest is an interrupt request sent from the hardware level to
177 IRQ affinity is the set of CPU cores that can service that interrupt.
186 Jenkins is an open source continuous integration tool written in Java.
190 JIRA is a bug tracking software.
194 Time difference in packet inter-arrival time to their destination can be called jitter.
198 A jump host or jump server or jumpbox is a computer on a network typically
199 used to manage devices in a separate security zone.
208 The kernel is a computer program that constitutes the central core of a
209 computer's operating system.
218 The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from source to destination is
223 libvirt is an open source API, daemon and management tool for managing
224 platform virtualization.
233 Migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment
234 to another operating environment.
243 Network Functions Virtualisation, an industry initiative to leverage
244 virtualisation technologies in carrier networks.
248 Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
252 Network Interface Controller
256 Non-Uniform Memory Access
265 Open Platform for NFV, an open source project developing an NFV reference
266 platform and features.
275 Is a lighthouse and is a project deals with developing an OPNFV lab
276 infrastructure that is geographically and technically diverse.
280 A suite of plugins in Jenkins that lets you orchestrate automation.
284 OPNFV provides an open source platform for deploying NFV solutions that
285 leverages investments from a community of developers and solution providers.
289 A Pool is a set of resources that are kept ready to use, rather than acquired
290 on use and released afterwards.
299 QEMU is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware
309 Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
313 REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style, and an
314 approach to communications that is often used in the development of web
324 Refers to altering the size.
328 Works with/for master.where master has unidirectional control over one or
333 Single root IO- Virtualization.
337 A spinlock is a lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply
338 wait in a loop while repeatedly checking if the lock is available.
342 Refers to computer components which store some data.
351 A Tenant is a group of users who share a common access with specific
352 privileges to the software instance.
356 A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts
357 do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required.
361 Technical Steering Committee
370 A virtual local area network, typically an isolated ethernet network.
374 Virtual machine, an emulation in software of a computer system.
378 Virtual network function, typically a networking application or function
379 running in a virtual environment.
388 Helps to reduce the network traffic by just sending the updated data
397 Yardstick is an infrastructure verification. It is an OPNFV testing project.
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