This reference architecture guide provides guidance for designing and creating a telco cloud platform by using VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure™ – Cloud Director™ Edition.
This guide describes the high-level design principles and considerations when implementing an environment based on Telco Cloud Infrastructure. It also provides example scenarios to help you understand the platform capabilities.
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for telecommunications and solution architects, sales engineers, field consultants, advanced services specialists, and customers who are responsible for the virtualized network functions (VNFs) and the environment on which they run.
Acronyms and Definitions
This guide uses a specific set of acronyms that apply to Telco Cloud Infrastructure and the telco industry.
Abbreviation |
Description |
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BFD |
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, for failure detection on the transport links. |
DPDK |
Data Plane Development Kit, an Intel-led packet processing acceleration technology. |
EMS |
Element Management System |
MTTR |
Mean Time to Repair |
MTTU |
Mean Time to Understand |
NMS |
Network Management System |
Abbreviation |
Description |
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CNF |
Cloud-Native Network Function, executing within a Kubernetes environment. |
CCP |
Centralized Control Plane in the VMware NSX-T™ Data Center architecture. |
EPA |
Enhanced Platform Awareness |
LCP |
Local Control Plane in the NSX-T Data Center architecture. |
MANO |
Management and Orchestration components, a term originating from the ETSI NFV architecture framework. |
NFV |
Network Functions Virtualization |
NFVI |
Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure |
NFVO |
Network Functions Virtualization Orchestrator |
N-VDS (E) |
Enhanced mode when using the NSX-T Data Center N-VDS switch. This mode enables DPDK for workload acceleration. |
N-VDS (S) |
Standard mode when using the NSX-T Data Center N-VDS switch. |
VIM |
Virtualized Infrastructure Manager |
VNF |
Virtual Network Function, executing in a virtual machine. |
VNFM |
Virtual Network Function Manager |
Abbreviation |
Description |
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HSS |
Home Subscriber Server in the mobile evolved packet core 4G architecture. |
MVNO |
Mobile Virtual Network Operator |
PCRF |
Policy, Charging and Rating Function, in the mobile evolved packet core 4G architecture. |
PGW |
Packet Gateway in the mobile evolved packet core 4G architecture. |
SGW |
Service Gateway in the mobile evolved packet core 4G architecture. |
SBC |
Session Border Controller used in voice telephone for control and data plane communications between clients. |
UPF |
User Plane Function |