This reference architecture guide provides guidance for designing and creating a telco cloud by using VMware Telco Cloud Platform™ – 5G Edition.
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), Cloud Native Network Functions (CNFs), and the environment in which they run.
Acronyms and Definitions
The following table lists the acronyms used frequently in this guide.
| Acronym |
Definition |
|---|---|
| AMF |
Access and Mobility Management Function |
| AUSF |
Authentication Server Function |
| CBRS |
Citizens Broadband Radio Service |
| CNTT |
Common NFVI Telco Task Force |
| CSP |
Communications Service Provider |
| DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DPDK |
Data Plane Development Kit, an Intel-led packet processing acceleration technology |
| ETSI |
European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| LCM |
Life Cycle Management |
| NFV |
Network Functions Virtualization |
| NRF |
NF Repository Function |
| N-VDS |
NSX-managed Virtual Distributed Switch |
| N-VDS (E) |
NSX-managed Virtual Distributed Switch in Enhanced Data Path mode |
| PCIe |
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| PCF |
Policy Control Function |
| PCRF |
Policy and Charging Rule Function |
| QCI |
Quality of Service Class Identifier |
| SMF |
Session Management Function |
| SBA |
Service-Based Architecture |
| SBI |
Service-Based Interface |
| SR-IOV |
Single Root Input/Output Virtualization |
| STP |
Spanning Tree Protocol |
| SVI |
Switched Virtual Interface |
| ToR Switch |
Top-of-Rack Switch |
| UDM |
Unified Data Management |
| UDR |
Unified Data Repository |
| VDS |
vSphere Distributed Switch |
| VNF |
Virtual Network Function |
Cloud Native Acronyms
| Acronym |
Definition |
|---|---|
| CAPV |
Cluster API Provider vSphere |
| CMK |
CPU Manager for Kubernetes |
| CNI |
Container Network Interface |
| CNCF |
Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a Linux Foundation project designed to help advance the container technology |
| CNF |
Cloud Native Network Function executing within a Kubernetes environment |
| CSAR |
Cloud Service Archive |
| CSI |
Container Storage Interface. vSphere CSI exposes vSphere storage to containerized workloads on container orchestrators, such as Kubernetes. It enables vSAN and other types of vSphere storage. |
| CNS |
Cloud Native Storage, a storage solution that provides comprehensive data management for Kubernetes stateful applications. |
| K8s |
Kubernetes |
| PSP |
Pod Security Policy |
| TCA |
Telco Cloud Automation |
| TCA-CP |
Telco Cloud Automation-Control Plane |
