Acronyms
The following table lists the acronyms and the terminologies used in the document:
Table - Acronyms and Terminologies
| Acronym | Description |
|---|---|
| APM | Application Performance Monitoring (of OCI, that receives traces) |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| DRG | Dynamic Routing Gateway |
| EGW | Egress Gateway |
| IGW | Ingress Gateway |
| NF | A 3GPP-defined processing function in a network, which has defined functional behaviour and 3GPP-defined interfaces. |
| NF service | It is a functionality exposed by an NF through a service-based interface and consumed by other authorized NFs. |
| NF service instance | An identifiable instance of the NF service |
| NLB | Network Load Balancer |
| OCI | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure |
| OCI Adaptor | OCI Adaptor components conduit between CNC NFs and OCI's observability services. |
| OKE | Oracle Engine for Kubernetes |
| OTEL | OpenTelemetry |
| RDP | Remote Desktop Protocol |
| RPC | Remote Peering Connection |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| Terraform | Infrastructure as Code (IaC) software tool to provision and manage infrastructure in any cloud. |
| VCN | Virtual Cloud Network |
| Private VM | A Private Virtual Machine is a virtual machine hosted on-premise within a private network or infrastructure, usually owned and managed by an organization. |
| Public VM | A Public Virtual Machine is a virtual machine hosted on a public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and so on. |