Acronyms used in the lab

Acronym Concept

BMC

Baseboard Management Controller

CNF

Cloud-native Network Functions

DPDK

Data Plane Development Kit

DU

Distributed Unit

FEC

Forward Error correction

GVK

Group Version Kind

MCE

Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes

NTO

Node Tuning Operator

PGT

PolicyGenTemplates

PMD

Poll Mode Driver

PTP

Precision Time Protocol

RAN

Radio Access Network

RU

Radio Units

SR-IOV

Single Root I/O Virtualization

TALM

Topology Aware Lifecycle Manager

VFs

Virtual Functions

vRAN

Virtualized Radio Access Networks