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ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- a standards body for information and communications technologies (http://www.etsi.org). The ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specification Group (ISG) promotes standards for Network Function Virtualization.
FCAPS: Fault Configuration Accounting Performance Security
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- an existing connection is being changed; thus, MACDs are also called change orders. The connection will have both operational and configuration data.
MANO: management MANagement and organization Organization of NFV
- https://www.sdxcentral.com/nfv/definitions/nfv-mano/the ETSI-defined framework for the management and orchestration of all resources in the cloud data center. See the SDX Central description and the ETSI MANO page
- ETSI's MANO does not include Controller and Policy components, as OpenECOMP does
- ETSI's MANO resource description does not include complete meta-data for lifecycle management of infrastructure as well as VNFs (OpenECOMP does)
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- Largest open source SDN controller, or network control plane, written in Java Java (see https://www.opendaylight.org/, also https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDaylight_Project)
OpenECOMP: Open-source Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy
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- Open source software for creating private and public clouds (compute, network, and storage facilities) (https://www.openstack.org/)
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- carrier-grade, integrated platform that introduces new products and services to the industry more quickly.reference platform integrating ODL and OpenStack, designed to host VNFs
- will work closely with the ETSI and others to press for consistent implementation of open standards.
- https://www.sdxcentral.com/nfv/definitions/opnfv/
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- a modular system and a service platform for the Java programming language that implements a complete and dynamic component model (OpenDaylight uses this) (Wikipedia)
PNF: Physical Network Function
- a network function that runs in a hardware appliance
Portal:
- OpenECOMP user interface; provides access to design, analytics and operational control/administration via a common role-based menu or dashboard. Includes SDK to drive UI consistency.
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