Acronyms

AMF — Access & Mobility Management Function

API — Application Programming Interface

AUSF — Authentication Server Function

BSS — Business Support System

CDK — Cloud Development Kit

CI/CD — Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

CLI — Command Line Interface

CNF — Cloud-native or Containerized Network Function

CSP — Communication Service Provider

CU — RAN Central Unit

CVE — Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

DoS — Denial of Service

DR — disaster recovery

DU — RAN Distributed Unit

E2E — end to end

ECR — Elastic Container Registry

EFS — Elastic File System

EKS — Elastic Kubernetes Service

EPC — Evolved Packet Core

IaC — Infrastructure as Code

ISV — Independent Software Vendor

MANO — Management and Orchestration

MEC — Multi-Access Edge Computing

NACL — Network Access Control List

NAT — Network Address Translation

NF — Network Function

NFV — Network Function Virtualization

NFVO — Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator

NOC — Network Operations Centre

NRF — Network Repository Function

OSS — Operations Support System

PII — Personally Identifiable Information

QoS — Quality of Service

RAN — Radio Access Network

SBI — Service Based Interface

SMF — Session Management Function

SSL — Secure Sockets Layer

TaS — Test as Service

TCP — Transmission Control Protocol

TLS — Transport Layer Security

UDM — Unified Data Management

UDP — User Datagram Protocol

UPF — User Plane Function

VIM — Virtualized Infrastructure Manager

VNF — Virtual Network Function

VPC — Virtual Private Cloud