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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
<chapter id="def_and_acr">
  <title>Definitions and Acronyms</title>

  <section id="definitions">
    <title>Definitions</title>

    <table>
      <title>Definitions</title>

      <tgroup cols="2">
        <colspec align="left" colname="1" colwidth="1*" />

        <colspec align="left" colname="2" colwidth="3*" />

        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry>Enea NFV Access</entry>

            <entry>The Enea NFV Access Run Time Platform and uCPE
            Manager.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>Enea NFV Access Run Time Platform</entry>

            <entry>A lightweight, multi-architecture virtualization platform,
            supporting Virtual Machines (KVM / QEMU).</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>Enea uCPE Manager</entry>

            <entry>Enea Universal Customer Premises Equipment Manager.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>uCPE device</entry>

            <entry>A whitebox (e.g. Intel XeonD) running Enea NFV Access Run
            Time platform.</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>
  </section>

  <section id="acronyms">
    <title>Acronyms</title>

    <table>
      <title>acronyms</title>

      <tgroup cols="2">
        <colspec align="left" colname="1" colwidth="1*" />

        <colspec align="left" colname="2" colwidth="3*" />

        <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry>API</entry>

            <entry>Application Programming Interface.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>DPDK</entry>

            <entry>Data Plane Development Kit.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>EFI</entry>

            <entry>Extensible Firmware Interface.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>NETCONF</entry>

            <entry>Network Configuration Protocol.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>NFV</entry>

            <entry>Network Functions Virtualization.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>OVS</entry>

            <entry>Open vSwitch.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>UEFI</entry>

            <entry>Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>SR-IOV</entry>

            <entry>Single Root Input/Output Virtualization.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>PCI</entry>

            <entry>Peripheral Component Interconnect.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>PCI Passthrough</entry>

            <entry>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.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>REST</entry>

            <entry>Representational State Transfer.</entry>
          </row>

          <row>
            <entry>VNF</entry>

            <entry>Virtual Network Function.</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
      </tgroup>
    </table>
  </section>
</chapter>