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+**Portal** - a single, consistent user experience for both design timer
+and run time environments, based on the user’s role.
+
+**Design Time Framework** - a comprehensive development environment with
+tools, techniques, and repositories for defining/describing resources,
+services, and products:
+
+ - Service Design and Creation (SDC) provides tools, techniques, and
+ repositories to define/simulate/certify system assets as well as their
+ associated processes and policies.
+
+ - A VNF Software Development Kit (VNFSDK) and VNF Validation Program (VVP)
+ with tools for VNF supplier packaging and validation.
+
+ - Policy Creation (POLICY) deals with conditions, requirements,
+ constraints, attributes, or needs that must be provided, maintained,
+ and/or enforced.
+
+ - Closed Loop Automation Management Platform (CLAMP) provides a method
+ for designing and managing control loops.
+
+ - Optimization Framework (OOF) provides a policy-driven and model-driven
+ framework for creating optimization applications.
+
+**Runtime Framework** - The runtime execution framework executes the
+rules and policies distributed by the design and creation environment
+and Controllers that manage resources corresponding to their assigned
+controlled domain:
+
+ - Service Orchestrator (SO) executes the specified BPMN processes and
+ automates sequences of activities, tasks, rules and policies needed for
+ on-demand creation, modification or removal of network, application or
+ infrastructure services and resources. SO is especially able to drive
+ any OpenStack-based cloud platform.
+
+ - Software Defined Network Controller (SDNC) executes network configuration
+ for cloud computing resources and network.
+
+ - Application Controller (APPC) executes Virtual Network Functions (VNF)
+ configurations and lifecycle management operations.
+
+ - Virtual Function Controller (VF-C) is responsible for lifecycle management
+ of virtual network functions and network services based on VNF using
+ VNF Manager.
+
+ - Active and Available Inventory (A&AI) provides real-time views of a
+ system’s resources, services, products and their relationships with each
+ other.