Glossary

Glossary of Terms used in this guide

NFV - Network Function Virtualization.

TCA - The product VMware Telco Cloud Automation™.

SOL - The ETSI standards specification documents specifying the REST APIs for NFV. The TCA™ supports SOL003 and SOL005.

VIM - Virtual Infrastructure Manager.

CP - Control Plane; precisely, the TCA-Control-Plane.

SDK - Software Development Kit.

API - Application Programming Interface.

CaaS - Containerization As a Service

VNF - Virtualized Network Function

NS - Network Service, in the NFV parlance.

VM - Virtual Machine.

CNF - Cloud-Native Network Function. Often referred to as 'Containerized Network Function' to differentiate it from the 'VM-based Network Function'.

NF - Network Function, in the NFV parlance. The NF represents a generic network function, inclusive of VNF, PNF, CNF.

K8S - Kubernetes

SSL - Secure Socket Layer.

LCM - Lifecycle Management of Network Functions (in the parlance of SOL APIs).

MD5 - "Message Digest" (5) checksum of a binary or an archive (usually a deliverable)

SHA1, SHA256 - "Secure Hash Algorithm" checksum of a binary or an archive (usually a deliverable).