Definitions and Acronyms
Definitions
Definitions
Enea NFV Access
The Enea NFV Access Run Time Platform and uCPE
Manager.
Enea NFV Access Run Time Platform
A lightweight, multi-architecture virtualization platform,
supporting Virtual Machines (KVM / QEMU).
Enea uCPE Manager
Enea Universal Customer Premises Equipment Manager.
uCPE device
A whitebox (e.g. Intel XeonD) running Enea NFV Access Run
Time platform.
Acronyms
acronyms
API
Application Programming Interface.
DPDK
Data Plane Development Kit.
EFI
Extensible Firmware Interface.
NETCONF
Network Configuration Protocol.
NFV
Network Functions Virtualization.
OVS
Open vSwitch.
UEFI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.
SR-IOV
Single Root Input/Output Virtualization.
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect.
PCI Passthrough
PCI Passthrough allows for use of a physical PCI device,
e.g. a network card inside a VM.
If you "PCI passthrough" a device, the device is not available to
the host anymore.
REST
Representational State Transfer.
VNF
Virtual Network Function.