On this page, we will have a list of the acronyms that are used in this course, and what they stand for, that will help you when going through the course content. These acronyms will be quickly accessible from anywhere within the course, just click on the Glossary tab.
A
AAA - Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
A & AI - Active and Available Inventory
ACI - Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure
ACL - Access Control List
ADC - Application Delivery Controller
AI - Artificial Intelligence
AMI - Applied Machine Learning
API - Application Programming Interface
APPC - Application Controller
ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
ASAv - Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (Cisco)
ASIC - Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ASN - Anonymous System Numbers
B
BCC - BPF Compiler Collection
BCF - Big Cloud Fabric
BFD - Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
BGP-PCEP - BGP-Path Computation Element Communication Protocol
BMC - Baseboard Management Controller
BMP - BGP Monitoring Protocol
BPF - Berkley Packet Filtering
BSS - Business Support System
C
CAM - Content Addressable Memory
CAPWAP - Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points protocol
CDN - Content Delivery Network
CLAMP - Closed Loop Automation Management Platform
CLI - Command Line Interface
CORD - Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter
CPE - Customer Premises Equipment
CPLD - Complex Programmable Logic Device
CPS - Control Plane Services
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check
CSR - Cloud Services Router
D
DANOS - Disaggregated Network Operating System
DDOS - Distributed Denial of Service
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHCPD - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Daemon
DOCSIS - Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
DNS - Domain Name Service
DPAA2 - Data Path Acceleration Architecture Gen2
DPI - Deep Packet Inspection
DRAC - Dell Remote Access Controller
DSCP - Differentiated Services Code Point
DSR - Direct Server Response
E
EAL - Environment Abstraction Layer
eBPF - Enhanced/Extended Berkley Packet Filtering
ECMP - Equal Cost Multi-Path Routing
ELAN - Emulated Local Area Network
EPC - Evolved Packet Core
EPON - Ethernet Passive Optical Network
ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EVPN - Ethernet Virtual Private Network
F
FAL - Forwarding Abstraction Layer
FBOSS - Facebook Open Switching System
FD.io - The Fast Data Project
FIB - Forwarding Information Base
FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array
FRR - Free Range Routing
FWaaS - Firewall as a Service
G
Gbps - Gigabit per second
GENEVE - Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation Protocol
gNMI - gRPC Network Management Interface
GPON - Gigabit Passive Optical Networks
GRE - Generic Routing Encapsulation
GUI - Graphical User Interface
H
HCL - Hardware Compatibility List
HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System
HFSC - Hierarchical Fair-Service Curve
HPC - High Performance Computing
I
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol
IDS - Intrusion Detection System
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
I2C - IC to IC Interconnect
iLO - Integrated Lights Out
IPAM - IP Address Management
IPFIX - IP Flow Information Export
IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface
IPS - Intrusion Prevention System
IPSec - Internet Protocol Security
ISC - Internet Systems Consortium
IS-IS - Intermediate System to Intermediate System
ISRv - Integrated Services Virtual Router
ITSM - IT Service Management
J
JBOD - just a bunch of disks
JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
K
KPI - Key Performance Indicator
L
L2TP - Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
LACP - Link Aggregation Control Protocol
LAG - Link Aggregation
LDP - Label Distribution Protocol
LLDP - Link Layer Discovery Protocol
LSP - Language Server Protocol
LTM - Local Traffic Manager
M
MAC - Media Access Control
MANO - Management and Orchestration
MD-SAL - Model-Driven Service Adaptation Layer
MP-BGP - Multi-Protocol BGP
MPLS - Multi-Protocol Label Switching
MPPA - Massively Parallel Processor Array
N
NAS - Network Adaptation Service
NAT - Network Address Translation
NCLU - Network Command Line Utility
NDA - Non-disclosure agreement
NETCONF - Network Configuration Protocol
NEV SDK - Network Edge Virtualization Software Development Kit
NGFW - Next Generation Firewall
NIC - Network Interface Card
NFV - Network Function Virtualization
NOS - Network Operating System
NSL - Network Switch Library
NSO - Network Service Orchestration
O
OCP - Open Compute Project
ODL - OpenDaylight
ODP - Open Data Plane
ODTN - Open Disaggregated Transport Network
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OF-DPA - OpenFlow Data Plane Abstraction
OID - Object Identifier
OLT - Optical Line Terminal
ONAP - Open Networking Automation Platform
ONF - Open Networking Foundation
ONIE - Open Network Install Environment
ONL - Open Network Linux
ONOS - Open Networking Operating System
OOF - Optimization Framework
OpenNSL - Open Network Switch Library
OS - Operating System
OSC - Open Security Controller
OSGi - Open Services Gateway initiative
OSM - Open Source MANO
OSPF - Open Shortest Path First
OSS - Operational Support Systems
OVF - Open Virtualization File
OVS - Open vSwitch
OVSDB - Open vSwitch Database
P
P4 - Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processor
PaaS - Platform as a Service
PBR - Policy Based Routing
PBX - Private Branch Exchange
PC - Personal Computer
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCBA - Printed Circuit Board Assembly
PCE - Path Computation Element
PCEP - PCE Communication Protocol
PCIe - Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
PISA - Protocol Independent Switch Architecture
PNDA - Platform for Network Data Analytics
POD - Point of Delivery
PPPOE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
Q
QoS - Quality of Service
R
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAN - Radio Access Network
RIP - Routing Information Protocol
RPC - Remote Procedure Call
RPF - Reverse Path Forwarding
RSTP - Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
RSPAN - Remote Switched Port Analyzer
RSS - Received Site Scaling
SAI - Switch Abstraction Interface
SAL - Service Adaptation Layer
SCVMM - System Center Virtual Machine Manager
SDC - Service Design and Creation
SDDC - Software Defined Datacenter
SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDK - Software Development Kit
SDN - Software Defined Networking
SDNC - Software Defined Network Controller
SD-WAN - Software Defined WAN
SFC - Service Function Chaining
sFlow - sampled flow
SFP - Small Form-Factor Pluggable
SLA - Service Level Agreement
SNAS - Streaming Network Analytics System
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
SO - Service Orchestrator
SoC - System-on-a-Chip
SONiC - Software for Open Network in the Cloud (from Microsoft)
SPAN - Switch Port Analyzer
SPBM - Shortest Path Bridging Media Access Control
SR-IOV - Single Root Input Output Virtualization
SSH - Secure Socket Shell
SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
SSID - Service Set Identifier
STP - Spanning Tree Protocol
STT - Stateless Transport Tunneling Protocol
T
Tbps - Terabit per second
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
tftp - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TI -Texas Instruments
TSDB - Time Series Database
U
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter
UC - Unified Communications
uCPE - Universal Customer Premises Equipment
UCS - Unified Computer System
UDP - User Datagram Protocol
V
VCA - VNF Configuration and Abstraction
VF-C - Virtual Function Controller
VHDL -Very High Level Design
Vhost - virtual host
VIP - Virtual IP
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
VNF - Virtual Network Function
VNFO - Virtual Network Function Orchestrator
VNFSDK - VNF Software Development Kit
VNID - Virtual Network Identifier
VNSC - Virtualized Network Security Functions
VOD - Video on Demand
VOLTHA - Virtual OLT Hardware Abstraction
VPC - Virtual Private Cloud
VPLS - Virtual Private LAN Service
VPN - Virtual Private Network
VPP - Vector Packet Processing
VRF - Virtual Routing and Forwarding
VRRP - Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
VTEP - VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint
VTN - Virtual Tenant Network
VVP - VNF Validation Program
VXLAN - Virtual Extensible Local Area Network
W
WAF - Web Application Firewall
WAN - Wide-Area Network
X
XDP - eXpress Data Path
Y
YANG - Yet Another Next Generation