Terminologies

The following table provides information about the terminologies used in the document:

Table - Acronyms

Terminology	Description
Message Per Second (MPS)	The rate of data transfer between connections is measured by message per second or MPS.
Transaction Per Second (TPS)	Transaction per second (TPS) is the number of transactions executed per second. The throughput in performance testing is expressed as TPS.
Ingress Gateway	An ingress gateway describes a load balancer operating at the edge of the mesh that receives incoming HTTP/TCP connections. It is an entry point for accessing OCNSSF supported service operations and provides the functionality of an OAuth validator.
Egress Gateway	An egress gateway describes a load balancer operating at the edge of the mesh that defines outgoing HTTP/TCP connections. It is responsible to route OCNSSF initiated egress messages to other NFs.
cnDBTier	cnDBTier is the geodiverse database layer provided as part of Oracle Communications Cloud Native Environment (OCCNE).