Deprecated Terms are listed at the bottom of this page.
AAF: Application Authorization Framework
AAI: Active and Available Inventory (component of OpenECOMP runtime)
Real-time views of Resources, Services, Products, Customer Subscriptions, and their relationships
Akka: handles clustering (used by Brocade) akka.io
AJSC: see Java Service Container
ASTRA: Web application firewall provided by Czar Securities and developed by AT&T
APPC = APP-C: Application Controller (part of OpenECOMP)
BPEL: Business Process Execution Language (OASIS Standard)
BPMN: Business Process Model and Notation (Wikipedia) or Business Process Management Notation (OpenECOMP.pdf)
BRMS: Business Rules Management System
Brocade:
BSS: Business Support System
BVC: Brocade Vyatta Controller
CDAP: Cask Data Application Platform
CCD: Common Configuration Dashboard (application within OpenECOMP)
Chef:
CI/CD: Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
CMA: Change Management Application (within OpenECOMP)
Congress:
DCAE: Data Collection, Analytics and Events (component of OpenECOMP runtime)
DDoS: Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (Wikipedia)
Disconnect: (Vendor specific)
DLUX:
DMaap: Data Management as a Platform
DME: Direct Messaging Engine (common service within OpenECOMP)
DNS: Domain Name System
DPDK: Data Plane Development Kit
Drools: Red Hat's Business Rules Management System solution https://www.drools.org/
EELF: Event and Error-Logging Framework (common service within OpenECOMP)
EMS: Element Management System (Wikipedia)
ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FCAPS: Fault Configuration Accounting Performance Security
GBP: Group-Based Policy (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GroupBasedPolicy)
Heat:
HDFS: Hadoop Distributed File System
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protococol
IAM/IDAM: Identity and Access Management
ICE: Incubation and Certification Environment
IDS: Intrusion Detection System (Wikipedia)
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.org)
IKE: Internet Key Exchange (Wikipedia)
IPS: Intrusion Prevention System (Wikipedia)
IPSEC: Internet Protocol Security (Wikipedia)
JSC: Java Service Container: (formerly AJSC)
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
Karaf:
LCM: Life-Cycle Management
LRM: Local Resource Monitor
MACD: (Vendor specific) Move Add Change Delete/Disconnect
MANO: MANagement and Organization of NFV
MD-SAL: Model Driven Service Abstraction Layer
MOP: Method of Procedure
MOTS: Mechanized Operations Tracking System
MSO: Master Service Orchestrator (component of OpenECOMP runtime)
NCSP: Network Cloud Service Provider
NEP: Network Equipment Provider
NETCONF: Network Configuration Protocol (Wikipedia)
network cloud:
NFV = VNF: Network Function Virtualization
NFVI: network functions virtualization infrastructure
NOD: Network On Demand
Node-RED:
NS: Network Services
NS: (Vendor Specific) New Start
OA&M: Operations, Administration and Management
OASIS:
OMF: Operational Management Framework (of OpenECOMP)
OpenDaylight = ODL
OpenECOMP: Open-source Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy
OpenStack:
OPNFV: Open Platform for NFV Project
Orchestration:
OSS: Operations Support System
OSGI:
PO: Platform Orchestrator
PNF: Physical Network Function
Portal:
RCA: Root Cause Analysis
RCT: Reference Connection Tool
REST: REpresentational State Transfer (Wikipedia)
RESTCONF: REST + NETCONF
RO: Resource Orchestrator
RPC: Remote Procedure Call
SDC: Service Design and Creation (component of OpenECOMP for visual modeling and design)
SDN: Software-Defined Networking
SDN-C: (Vendor Specific) Software Defined Network - Controller
SDN-GP: Software Defined Network - Global Platform
SLA: Service Level Agreement
SLI: Service Logic Interpreter
SME: Subject Matter Expert
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
SOT: Source Of Truth
SR-IOV: Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization (Wikipedia)
SSH: Secure Shell
SUPP: (Vendor Specific) short for supplement, changing a connection before activation
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
TEM: Telecom Electronics Manufacturer
TOSCA: Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (OASIS spec)
TPS: Transactions Per Second
TSC:
UEB: Universal Event Broker
vCE: virtual CE (Customer Edge) router
VF: Virtual Function
VFC: Virtualized Function Component (draft_OpenECOMP_0_1 p. 45)
VID: Virtual Instantiation Deployment
VIM: Virtualized Infrastructure Manager
VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network
VM: Virtual Machine
VNF = NFV: Virtual Network Function
VNFC: Virtual Network Function Component
VNO: Virtual Network Operator
vPE: virtual PE (Provider Edge) router
VSP: Vendor Software Product (from SDC Demo Guide)
XACML++: eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (OASIS standard, extended)
YAML:
YANG: A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
A&AI: use AAI
AJSC: replace with JSC or Java Service Container
AT&T Service Design and Creation (ASDC): renamed to Service Design and Creation (SDC)
ECOMP: replace with OpenECOMP
Components of ECOMP that are not in OpenECOMP (Remove all references before OpenECOMP release)
CLAMP: Control Loop Automation Management Platform
Change Management and CMA
GeoLink
POLO: Portal Open Loop operation
DG - jargon; replace with the generic term "directed graph". Specifically, it is the XML output of DG Builder. Directed graphs are used to encapsulate service logic.
DG Builder - short for directed graph builder. This is an AT&T customized version of Node-RED. It is a graphic editor used to generate the resulting XML files that are fed into SLI.
DHV - Dynamic Hybrid VPN formerly Hybrid Networking
NFoD - Network Functions on Demand
PLC - Port Level Class of Service
PNC - Private Network Connection
SLI - service logic interpreter, interprets DGs (xml output file)
uCPE - AT&T Universal Customer Premises Equipment read more at the public PDF on the AT&T business site.
VIG - Virtual Interface/Interconnection Gateway
VPE - Virtual Provider Edge
VRF - Virtual Routing & Forwarding
SDN-CP - Software Defined Network - Controller Platform
SDN-GP - Software Defined Network - GUI Portal
SDN-GC - Software Defined Network - Global Controller
SDN-F - Software Defined Network - Fabric
SDN-MLC - Software Defined Network - Multi Layer Controller
SDN-U - Software Defined Network - Uverse
1610: All references to AT&T Release Version numbers, such as this one, will be removed. There will be a new version numbering scheme with OpenECOMP.
AIC: AT&T Integrated Cloud: replace with "cloud" or "network cloud"
AT&T: omit
AOTS-CM - One Ticket System - Change Management
AOTS-TM - One Ticket System - Trouble Management
ASPR: AT&T Security Policy and Requirements (link to public document)
C-BUS - Collaboration Bus
CCD - Common Configuration Dashboard <<same as Dashboard? If so, promote>>
D2 = Domain 2.0
EIPAM - Enterprise IP Address Management
INSTAR (sometimes used interchangeably with LPP)
LPP - Logical Provisioning Platform consists of INSTAR, ICORE and other sub-components. LPP has no mots id, they use either INSTAR or ICORE.
NCS - Network Control System
PHS - Phone Home Server
UEB - Universal Event Broker
VID - Virtual Infrastructure Deployment