Mobile Network Alliance, 162 DCAE, 119-123 Next Generation X Core (NGxC), 328 legacy BSSs interactions with ONAP, 133-135 "Next Radio," 241 MSO, 111-112 NFoD, see Network Functions on Demand ONAP, 105-111 NFV, see Network functions virtualization policy engine, 123-128 NFVI, see Network functions virtualization infrastructure portal, reporting, GUI, and dashboard functions, NGPON2 technology, 230 117-119 NGxC, see Next Generation X Core SDC, 112-116 NIC, see Network interface card software-defined controllers, 116-117 NICs, see Network interface controllers VNF, 104 NMRs, see Network measurement reports Network operations, 23-24, 331 NMS, see Network management systems AT&T, 333, 334 NOD solution, see Network on demand solution migrating to network cloud, 347-349 Nonreal time, 47 impact of NFV and SDN on, 335-346 Nonrelational databases, 145 ONAP-related challenges, 343-346 Nonuniform memory access (NUMA), 317, 383 operations and engineering teams, 333-335 Northbound FW (NB FW), 180 operations team transformation, 346-347 Northbound interface (NBI), 96 performance requirements, 332 NOS, see Network operating system role of automation, 333 NoSql cloud databases, 296 role ONAP in, 338-343 Not only Structured Query Language (SQL) (NoSQL), 145 Network platform as a service layer (NPaaS layer), NPaaS layer, see Network platform as a service layer 302-303, 315 NTE, see Network terminating equipment Network(s), 52, 265; see also Open network automation NTP, see Network time protocol platform (ONAP) NUMA, see Nonuniform memory access abstraction layer, 215, 238-239 administration, 332 administrators, 202 appliance, 28 OA&M, see Operations, administration, and maintenance bonding service, 253 OA, see Optical amplifier complexity evolution, 202-203 Object-based storage; see also Object storage congestion, 163-167 Object storage, 53 connectivity, 2, 94 OCP, see Open Compute Project control, 88-89 ODL, see Open Daylight deployment, 372 ODN, see Optical distribution network elements, 182 OEMs, see Original equipment manufactu