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Recommendation ITU-T M.3071 introduces a new network management functional architecture with cloud-computing technology. In this Recommendation, the background and basic concept of cloud-based network management are provided. This Recommendation also provides details of a cloud-based network management functional architecture, including its basic components, functionalities and the relationship between its components.

In accordance with the functional reference architecture of cloud computing that was defined in Recommendation ITU-T Y.3502, Recommendation ITU-T Q.3914 specifies the functional reference architecture of cloud computing according to Recommendation ITU-T Y.3500. This Recommendation provides a set of parameters that indicate the status and event of a cloud computing system, including resource layer, service layer and access layer.

The present document provides an overview of NFV acceleration techniques and suggests a common architecture and abstraction layer, which allows deployment of various accelerators within the NFVI and facilitates interoperability between VNFs and accelerators. The present document also describes a set of use cases illustrating the usage of acceleration techniques in an NFV environment.

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3512 describes the concept of Network as a Service (NaaS) and its functional requirements. It provides typical use cases of NaaS and specifies the functional requirements of three aspects, ranging from NaaS application, NaaS platform and NaaS connectivity which are based on the corresponding uses cases and cloud capabilities types.

This Supplement provides a summary of cloud-computing-related deliverables in ITU-T study groups (SGs) and other standards development organisations (SDOs). Also, this supplement provides a common matrix for mapping these deliverables to different cloud-related categories. With the common matrix, this supplement provides analysis for cloud-computing-related deliverables in ITU-T SGs and other SDOs.

This Recommendation describes functional architecture for cloud service brokerage (CSB). To provide the functional architecture for CSB, the CSB functions based on configurations which have been identified in [ITU-T Y.3506] are introduced. This Recommendation also provides the relationship between the CSB functional architecture and the cloud computing reference architecture in [ITU-T Y.3502].

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3508 provides an overview and high-level requirements for distributed cloud. This Recommendation introduces the concept of the distributed cloud and identifies the characteristics of distributed cloud. Based on concept and characteristics, configuration models are illustrated. Deployment considerations of distributed cloud are provided in perspective of infrastructure, network, service, management and security. From use cases, high-level requirements of the distributed cloud are derived.

This Recommendation provides functional framework and requirements for cloud computing maturity. It introduces the overview of cloud computing maturity and identifies the cloud computing maturity model including cloud customer management module, cloud resource management module, cloud service management module and cloud security management module. Additionally, this Recommendation provides cloud computing maturity requirements derived from use cases.

This Recommendation specifies the overview and requirements of containers. The scope of this recommendation includes: " Overview of container concept including characteristics, Comparison between containers and VM, and Relationship between containers and VM; " Requirements of containers ; " Use cases of containers.

The purpose of this Recommendation is to describe the overview of multi-cloud and the functional requirements of cloud service partner for supporting multi-cloud by identifying the various use cases related with usage of multi-cloud in terms of cloud service customer, cloud service provider and cloud service partner. It also provides the cloud computing activities to support multi-cloud as sub-role of cloud service partner by identifying the relationships and interactions among cloud service customer, cloud service provider and other cloud service partner.

Recommendation ITU-T Q.4040 describes the framework and provides an overview of cloud computing interoperability testing. According to the identified target areas of testing, this framework Recommendation includes an overview of cloud computing interoperability testing with common confirmed items, infrastructure capabilities type, platform capabilities type and application capabilities type interoperability testing. This Recommendation describes the overview target areas of testing for interoperability testing of cloud computing.

Recommendation ITU-T Q.4041.1 specifies the cloud computing infrastructure capabilities type interoperability testing between the CSC and CSP, including interoperability testing of computing services, storage services, network services and related management functions, based on the functional requirements specified in Recommendation ITU-T Y.3513. The test cases of cloud computing infrastructure capabilities type interoperability testing between the CSC and CSP have also been introduced.