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Abbreviations

Abbreviation	Description
AAF	Application Authorization Framework
A&AI	Active & Available Inventory
AAA	Authentication,Authorization and Accounting
AID	Architecture Integration Document
APPC	ApplicationController
BPEL	Business Process Execution Language
BPMN	Business Process Model and Notation or Business Process Management Notation
BRMS	Business Rules Management System
BSS	Business Support System
CCSDK	Common Controller SDK project
CDAP	Cask Data Application Platform
CDS	Controller Design Studio
CI/CD	Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
CL	Control Loop
CLAMP	Closed Loop Automation Management Platform (project)
CLI	Command Line Interface (project)
CMA	Change Management Application (within ONAP)
CNF	Cloud Native network Function.
COE	Container Orchestration Engine
CPE	Customer Premise Equipment
CSAR	Cloud Service ARchive (link)
DAO	Data Access Object
DCAE	Data Collection Analytics & Events
DDoS	Distributed Denial-of-Service attack
DG	Directed Graph
DG Builder	Directed Graph Builder
DMaaP	Data Movement as a Platform
DME	Direct Messaging Engine (common service within ONAP)
DNS	Domain Name System
DPDK	Data Plane Development Kit
EELF	Event and Error-Logging Framework
EMS	Element Management System
ESR	External System Register
ETSI	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EUAG	ONAP End User Advisory Group
FCAPS	Fault Configuration Accounting Performance Security
GBP	Group-Based Policy
GNFC	Generic Network Function Controller
GUI	Graphical User Interface
HAS	Homing and Allocation Service
HDFS	Hadoop Distributed File System
HPA	Hardware Platform Awareness
HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protocol
HV VES	High Volume Virtual function Event Stream
IAM/IDAM	Identity and Access Management
ICE	Incubation and Certification Environment
IDS	Intrusion Detection System
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IKE	Internet Key Exchange
IPS	Intrusion Prevention System
IPSEC	Internet Protocol Security
JAR	Java Archive
JSC	Java Service Container
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation
LCM	Life Cycle Management
LFN CVC	Linux Foundation Networking Compliance/Verification Committee
LFN CVP	Linux Foundation Networking Compliance/Verification Program
LRM	Local Resource Monitor
M0	Release Kick-off milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
M1	Release Planning milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
M2	Release Functionality Freeze milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
M3	Release API Freeze milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
M4	Release Code Freeze milestone. See also Release Lifecycle
MACD	(Vendor specific) Move Add Change Delete/Disconnect
MANO	MANagement and Organization of NFV
MD-SAL	Model Driven Service Abstraction Layer
MR	Message Router (a Common Service of ONAP)
MOP	Method of Procedure
MOTS	Mechanized Operations Tracking System
MSB	Microservice Bus
MVP	Minimum Viable Product
MVP	Minimum Viable Plan (O-RAN Alliance
NAI	Network Artificial Intelligence
NANCSP	Network Cloud Service Provider
NBI	North Bound Interface
NEP	Network Equipment Provider
NETCONF	Network Configuration Protocol
NFV	Network Function Virtualization
NFVI	Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure
NOD	Network On Demand
NS	Network Services
NS	(Vendor Specific) New Start
O-CU	O-RAN Centralized Unit
O-DU	O-RAN Distributed Unit
O-RAN	O-RAN Alliance, Operator Defined Next Generation Radio Access Networks Alliance
O-RAN-SC	O-RAN Software Community
O-RU	O-RAN Radio Unit
OAM	Operation and Maintenance
OA&M	Operations, Administration and Management
OMF	Operational Management Framework (of ONAP)
OMSA	ONAP Microservice Architecture
ONAP	Open Network Automation Platform
OOF	ONAP Optimization Framework
ODL	OpenDaylight
OOM	ONAP Operations Manager
OPNFV	Open Platform for NFV Project
OSAM	Open Source Access Manager
OSC	O-RAN Software Community or Optical Supervisory Channel
OSS	Operations Support System
PAP	Policy Administration Point (ONAP)
PCE	Path Computation and Element (ONAP)
PCI	Physical Cell ID
pCPE	physical Customer Premise Equipment
PDP-x	Policy Decision Point - XACML (ONAP)
PDP-d	Policy Decision Point - Drools (ONAP)
PO	Platform Orchestrator
PoC	Proof of Concept
POMBA	Post Orchestration Model Based Audit
PNDA	Open source Platform for Network Data Analytics
PNF	Physical Network Function
RCA	Root Cause Analysis
RCT	Reference Connection Tool
REST	Representational State Transfer
RESTCONF	A protocol based on HTTP for configuring data defined in YANG
RO	Resource Orchestrator
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
S3P	Stability, Security, Scalability, Performance
SDC	Service Design and Creation (component of ONAP for visual modeling and design)
SDN	Software-defined networking
SDNC	SDN-Controller
SDN-R	SDN-Radio <https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/SDN-R> __
SDN-GP	Software Defined Network - Global Platform
SEBA	SDN-Enabled Broadband Access, see also
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SLI	Service Logic Interpreter
SME	Subject Matter Expert
SMO	Service Management and Orchestration
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SO	Service Orchestrator (project)
SOT	Source Of Truth
SR-IOV	Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer
SUPP	(Vendor Specific) short for supplement, changing a connection before activation
Swagger	legacy name for the OpenAPI Specification
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TEM	Telecom Electronics Manufacturer
TLS	Transport Layer Security
TOSCA	Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications
TPS	Transactions Per Second
TSC	Technical Steering Committee
U-UI	Use case User Interface
UI	User Interface
UX	User Experience
vCE	virtual CE (Customer Edge) router (an example VNF)
vCPE	Virtual Customer Premise Equipment
vDNS	Virtual Domain Name Server (an example VNF)
VDU	Virtualization Deployment Unit
VES	Virtual function Event Stream
vF	Virtual Firewall (an example VNF)
VF	Virtual Function
VFC	Virtual Function Controller
VFC	Virtual Function Component (Resource Onboarding)
vfModule	Virtual Function Module
VID	Virtual Instantiation Deployment
VID	Virtual Infrastructure Deployment (Project)
VIM	Virtualized Infrastructure Manager
VLAN	Virtual Local Area Network
VM	Virtual Machine
VNF	Virtual Network Function
VNFC	Virtual Network Function Component
VNFD	VNF Descriptor
VNFM	VNF Manager
VNO	Virtual Network Operator
vPE	virtual PE (Provider Edge) router (an example of a VNF)
VPP	Vector Packet Processing
VSP	Vendor Software Product (from SDC Demo Guide)
VTP	VNF Test Platform
VVP	VNF Validation Program
WAR	Web application Archive
xNF	The combination of PNF and VNF; Network Function
YANG	Yet Another Next Generation - a Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)