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+
+**************
+OPNFV Glossary
+**************
+Colorado 1.0
+------------
+
+========
+Contents
+========
+
+This glossary provides a common definition of phrases and words commonly used
+in OPNFV.
+
+--------
+
+A
+-
+
+Arno
+
+ A river running through Tuscany and the name of the first OPNFV release.
+
+API
+
+ Application Programming Interface
+
+AVX2
+
+ Advanced Vector Extensions 2 is an instruction set extension for x86.
+
+
+--------
+
+B
+-
+
+Brahmaputra
+
+ A river running through Asia and the name of the Second OPNFV release.
+
+Bios
+
+ Basic Input/Output System
+
+Builds
+
+ Build in Jenkins is a version of a program.
+
+Bogomips
+
+ Bogomips is the number of million times per second a processor can do
+ absolutely nothing.
+
+--------
+
+C
+-
+
+CAT
+
+ Cache Automation Technology
+
+CentOS
+
+ Community Enterprise Operating System is a Linux distribution
+
+CICD
+
+ Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
+
+CLI
+
+ Command Line Interface
+
+Colorado
+
+ A river in Argentina and the name of the Third OPNFV release.
+
+Compute
+
+ Compute is an OpenStack service which offers many configuration options
+ which may be deployment specific.
+
+Console
+
+ Console is display screen.
+
+CPU
+ Central Processing Unit
+
+--------
+
+D
+-
+
+Data plane
+
+ The data plane is the part of a network that carries user traffic.
+
+Debian/deb
+
+ Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of
+ free software.
+
+Docs
+
+ Documentation/documents
+
+DPDK
+
+ Data Plane Development Kit
+
+DPI
+
+ Deep Packet Inspection
+
+DSCP
+
+ Differentiated Services Code Point
+
+--------
+
+F
+-
+
+Flavors
+
+ Flavors are templates used to define VM configurations.
+
+Fuel
+
+ Provides an intuitive, GUI-driven experience for deployment and management of OpenStack
+
+--------
+
+H
+-
+
+Horizon
+
+ Horizon is an OpenStack service which serves as an UI.
+
+Hypervisor
+
+ A hypervisor, also called a virtual machine manager, is a program that allows
+ multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.
+
+--------
+
+I
+-
+
+IGMP
+
+ Internet Group Management Protocol
+
+IOMMU
+
+ Input-Output Memory Management Unit
+
+IOPS
+
+ Input/Output Operations Per Second
+
+IRQ
+
+ Interrupt ReQuest is an interrupt request sent from the hardware level to
+ the CPU.
+
+IRQ affinity
+
+ IRQ affinity is the set of CPU cores that can service that interrupt.
+
+--------
+
+J
+-
+
+Jenkins
+
+ Jenkins is an open source continuous integration tool written in Java.
+
+JIRA
+
+ JIRA is a bug tracking software.
+
+Jitter
+
+ Time difference in packet inter-arrival time to their destination can be called jitter.
+
+JumpHost
+
+ A jump host or jump server or jumpbox is a computer on a network typically
+ used to manage devices in a separate security zone.
+
+--------
+
+K
+-
+
+Kernel
+
+ The kernel is a computer program that constitutes the central core of a
+ computer's operating system.
+
+--------
+
+L
+-
+
+Latency
+
+ The amount of time it takes a packet to travel from source to destination is
+ Latency.
+
+libvirt
+
+ libvirt is an open source API, daemon and management tool for managing
+ platform virtualization.
+
+--------
+
+M
+-
+
+Migration
+
+ Migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment
+ to another operating environment.
+
+--------
+
+N
+-
+
+NFV
+
+ Network Functions Virtualisation, an industry initiative to leverage
+ virtualisation technologies in carrier networks.
+
+NFVI
+
+ Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
+
+NIC
+
+ Network Interface Controller
+
+NUMA
+
+ Non-Uniform Memory Access
+
+--------
+
+O
+-
+
+OPNFV
+
+ Open Platform for NFV, an open source project developing an NFV reference
+ platform and features.
+
+--------
+
+P
+-
+
+Pharos
+
+ Is a lighthouse and is a project deals with developing an OPNFV lab
+ infrastructure that is geographically and technically diverse.
+
+Pipeline
+
+ A suite of plugins in Jenkins that lets you orchestrate automation.
+
+Platform
+
+ OPNFV provides an open source platform for deploying NFV solutions that
+ leverages investments from a community of developers and solution providers.
+
+Pools
+
+ A Pool is a set of resources that are kept ready to use, rather than acquired
+ on use and released afterwards.
+
+--------
+
+Q
+-
+
+Qemu
+
+ QEMU is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware
+ virtualization.
+
+--------
+
+R
+-
+
+RDMA
+
+ Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
+
+Rest-Api
+
+ REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architectural style, and an
+ approach to communications that is often used in the development of web
+ services
+
+--------
+
+S
+-
+
+Scaling
+
+ Refers to altering the size.
+
+Slave
+
+ Works with/for master.where master has unidirectional control over one or
+ more other devices.
+
+SR-IOV
+
+ Single root IO- Virtualization.
+
+Spin locks
+
+ A spinlock is a lock which causes a thread trying to acquire it to simply
+ wait in a loop while repeatedly checking if the lock is available.
+
+Storage
+
+ Refers to computer components which store some data.
+
+--------
+
+T
+-
+
+Tenant
+
+ A Tenant is a group of users who share a common access with specific
+ privileges to the software instance.
+
+Tickless
+
+ A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts
+ do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required.
+
+TSC
+
+ Technical Steering Committee
+
+--------
+
+V
+-
+
+VLAN
+
+ A virtual local area network, typically an isolated ethernet network.
+
+VM
+
+ Virtual machine, an emulation in software of a computer system.
+
+VNF
+
+ Virtual network function, typically a networking application or function
+ running in a virtual environment.
+
+--------
+
+X
+-
+
+XBZRLE
+
+ Helps to reduce the network traffic by just sending the updated data
+
+--------
+
+Y
+-
+
+Yardstick
+
+ Yardstick is an infrastructure verification. It is an OPNFV testing project.
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