- Cell Site
- A location at the far edge of a network for cellular equipment such as an antenna, radio, and server.
- Cloud-native network functions
- Cloud-native network functions (CNFs) are a fundamental principle of a cloud-native application (CNA), in which software is separated into smaller and more manageable pieces. This is typically accomplished using a microservice architecture.
- Containers as a Service
- The Containers as a Service (CaaS) layer is installed on bare metal hardware and manages containerized applications. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the CaaS layer in Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat.
- Customer Information Questionnaire
- Customer Information Questionnaire (CIQ) files are populated with customer information and are used to set up the management and workload clouds. This data includes physical locations, credentials, server details, and network details.
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite
- An infrastructure management and cloud orchestration application that enables communication service providers to provision, manage, and monitor their infrastructure, and manages a CaaS layer such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
- Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat
- An infrastructure management solution that enables communication service providers to rapidly provision, manage, and monitor their infrastructure.
- Enterprise Project Services
- Dell Professional Services uses this system to collect and store customer information required to deploy Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat.
- Infrastructure cloud
- The cloud that hosts Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite. The infrastructure cloud is used to install Red Hat software in the management and workload clouds.
- Life cycle management
- Life cycle management (LCM) refers to infrastructure functions, including: deploying, maintaining, patching, upgrading, and decommissioning hardware; scaling hardware and software up and out; and managing firmware and software versions.
- Local Data Center
- A data center located at the edge of a network that is used for distributed computing related to cellular networks.
- Management cloud
- The cloud that hosts Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes operators, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation operators, and an optional Red Hat Quay operator for disconnected installations. The management cloud acts as the hub cluster, and it deploys and manages the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform spoke clusters, or workload clouds.
- National Data Center
- Communications service provider (CSP)-defined network domain that includes the core, operational support systems (OSS), business support systems (BSS), orchestration systems, and assurance systems.
- Provisioner node
- The server that hosts the installation bundle and handles installation functions in the management and workload clouds.
- Radio access network
- A radio access network (RAN) is a type of network infrastructure used commonly for mobile networks that consist of radio units, baseband units, antennas, and RAN workload software to connect cellular devices to other parts of a network over a radio link.
- Regional Data Center
- CSP-defined network domain that contains workload clouds used to run 5G core and RAN applications.
- Workload cloud
- The workload cloud acts as the spoke cluster and hosts 5G core and RAN cloud-native network functions.