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1 Core network aspects

LMI LINP Management Interface

NFV Network Functions Virtualization
NNI Network-to-Network Interface

OS Operating System
PRI Programmer-to-Redirector Interface

QoS Quality of Service
SDN Software-Defined Networking
SMI Service Management Interface

UNI User-to-Network Interface
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

VM Virtual Machine
VMI Virtual resource Management Interface
VNF Virtualized Network Function

XML-RPC Extensible Markup Language-Remote Procedure Call

5 Conventions
None.

6 Overview of functional architecture

This clause provides an overview of the functional architecture of network virtualization. Figure 1 shows the
components of the architecture classified into the following four categories: user roles, resources, functions,
and reference points.

Figure 1 – User roles, resources, functions, and reference points
in the functional architecture of network virtualization

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