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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 Danube is the fourth release of OPNFV and also a river in Europe
107 The data plane is the part of a network that carries user traffic.
111 Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of
116 Documentation/documents
120 Data Plane Development Kit
124 Deep Packet Inspection
128 Differentiated Services Code Point
137 Flavors are templates used to define VM configurations.
141 Provides an intuitive, GUI-driven experience for deployment and management of OpenStack
150 Horizon is an OpenStack service which serves as an UI.
154 A hypervisor, also called a virtual machine manager, is a program that allows
155 multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.
164 Internet Group Management Protocol
168 Input-Output Memory Management Unit
172 Input/Output Operations Per Second
176 Interrupt ReQuest is an interrupt request sent from the hardware level to
181 IRQ affinity is the set of CPU cores that can service that interrupt.
190 Jenkins is an open source continuous integration tool written in Java.
194 JIRA is a bug tracking software.
198 Time difference in packet inter-arrival time to their destination can be called jitter.
202 A jump host or jump server or jumpbox is a computer on a network typically
203 used to manage devices in a separate security zone.
212 The kernel is a computer program that constitutes the central core of a
213 computer's operating system.
222 The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from source to destination is
227 libvirt is an open source API, daemon and management tool for managing
228 platform virtualization.
237 Migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment
238 to another operating environment.
247 Network Functions Virtualisation, an industry initiative to leverage
248 virtualisation technologies in carrier networks.
252 Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
256 Network Interface Controller
260 Non-Uniform Memory Access
269 Open Platform for NFV, an open source project developing an NFV reference
270 platform and features.
279 Is a lighthouse and is a project deals with developing an OPNFV lab
280 infrastructure that is geographically and technically diverse.
284 A suite of plugins in Jenkins that lets you orchestrate automation.
288 OPNFV provides an open source platform for deploying NFV solutions that
289 leverages investments from a community of developers and solution providers.
293 A Pool is a set of resources that are kept ready to use, rather than acquired
294 on use and released afterwards.
303 QEMU is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware
313 Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
317 REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style, and an
318 approach to communications that is often used in the development of web
328 Refers to altering the size.
332 Works with/for master.where master has unidirectional control over one or
337 Single root IO- Virtualization.
341 A spinlock is a lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply
342 wait in a loop while repeatedly checking if the lock is available.
346 Refers to computer components which store some data.
355 A Tenant is a group of users who share a common access with specific
356 privileges to the software instance.
360 A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts
361 do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required.
365 Technical Steering Committee
374 A virtual local area network, typically an isolated ethernet network.
378 Virtual machine, an emulation in software of a computer system.
382 Virtual network function, typically a networking application or function
383 running in a virtual environment.
392 Helps to reduce the network traffic by just sending the updated data
401 Yardstick is an infrastructure verification. It is an OPNFV testing project.
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