Cisco Managed Service Accelerator (MSX) 3.10 Solution Overview Guide
- Updated:
- March 8, 2021
Chapter: Terminology
Terminology
The following table provides an alphabetical listing of MSX acronyms.
|
Acronym |
Definition |
|---|---|
| AAA | Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting |
| ACL | Access List |
| API | Application Programmable Interface |
| ARPU | Average Revenue Per User |
| ASAv | Adaptive Security Appliance - vFW VNF |
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol |
| BSS | Business Support System |
| CDB | Configuration Database |
| CFS | Consumer Facing Service |
| CLI | Configuration Line Interface |
| CMSP | Cisco Cloud and Managed Service Program |
| CPE | Customer Premise Equipment (ISR-G2) |
| CRUD | Create, Read, Update, and Delete orchestration operations |
| CSR | Cloud Service Router - vRouter VNF |
| cURL | Client URL |
| DC | Data Center |
| DCI | Data Center Interconnect |
| DEST | Destination IP Address |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DMVPN | Dynamic Multi-Point Virtual Private Network |
| DMZ | Demilitarized Zone (Networking private to public) |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DST | Destination IP Address |
| EIGRP | Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
| ESC | Elastic Services Controller |
| ETS | European Telecommunications Standards |
| ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| EzVPN | Easy Virtual Private Network |
| FW | Firewall |
| GraphDB | Graph Data Base |
| GuestOS | Guest Operating System |
| HA | High Availability is |
| HDR | Header |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| I2RS | Interface to Routing System (diagram format) |
| IKEv2 | Internet Key Exchange version 2 |
| IO | Input/Output |
| Intrusion Detection | Generally refers to the process of passively analyzing network traffic for potential intrusions and storing attack data for security analysis. |
| Intrusion Prevention | Includes the concept of intrusion detection, but adds the ability to block or alter malicious traffic as it travels across your network |
| iOS | Cisco Operating System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPSec | Internet Protocol Secure |
| ISR | Integrated Service Router |
| IT | Information Technology |
| KVM | Kernel-based Virtual Machine |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| ML2 | Modular Layer 2 |
| MPLS | Multiprotocol Label Switching |
| MSX | Managed Services Accelerator |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NAT44 | Network Address Translation IPv4-to-IPv4 |
| NED | Network Element Driver |
| NEDs | Network Element Drivers |
| NETCONF | Network Configuration protocol |
| NFV | Network Functions Virtualization |
| NH | Next Hope |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NICs | Network Interface Cards |
| NSO | Network Service Orchestrator |
| ODL | Open Daylight |
| OS | Operating System |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First |
| OSS | Operations Support System |
| OVS | Open Virtual Switch |
| PE | Provider Edge |
| PnP | Plug-N-Play |
| QEMU | Quick Emulator |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| RA | Remote Access |
| REST | Representation State Transfer |
| RFC | Request For Comments |
| RFS | Resource Facing Service |
| ROI | Return on Investment |
| SA | Source Address |
| SDN | Solution uses software-defined networking |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SMB | Small Medium Business |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SP | Service Provider |
| SRC | Source IP Address |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| SSL | Secure Sockets layer |
| SUDI | Secure Unique Device Identifier |
| TCO | Total Cost of Ownership |
| TP | Termination Point |
| UCS | Unified Computing System |
| vFW | Virtual Firewall |
| VIM | Virtual Interface Manager |
| VirtIO | Virtual Input/Output |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
| VMs | Virtual Machines |
| VNF | Virtual Network Function |
| VNFs | Virtual Network Functions |
| VNIC | Virtual Network Interface |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPP | Vector Packet Parsing |
| VR | Virtual Router |
| VRF | Virtual Route Forwarding |
| VRRP | Virtual Registry Registrar Protocol |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WCCPv2 | Web Cache Communications Protocol |
| WSA | Web Security Appliance |
| WSAv | Web Security Appliance virtualized |
| XML | eXtensible Marking Language |
| YANG | Yet Another Next Generation (data modeling) |
| ZTD | Zero Touch Deployment |
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