Glossary
ESB3024 Router definitions of commonly used terms
- ACD
- Agile CDN Director. See “Director”.
- Confd
- A backend service that hosts the service configuration. Comes with an API, a CLI and a GUI.
- Classifier
- A filter that associate a request with a tag that can be used to define session groups.
- Director
- The Agile Delivery OTT router and related services.
- ESB
- A software bundle that can be separately installed and upgraded, and is released as one entity with one change log. Each ESB is identified with a number. Over time, features and functions within an ESB can change.
- Lua
- A widely available scripting language that is often used to extend the capabilities of a piece of software.
- Router
- Unless otherwise specified, an HTTP router that manages an OTT session using HTTP redirect. There are also ways to use DNS instead of HTTP.
- Selection Input API
- Data posted to this API can be accessed by the routing rules and hence influence the routing decisions.
- Subnet API
- An API to define mappings between subnets and names (typically regions) for those subnets. Routing rules can then refer to the names rather than the subnets.
- Session Group
- A handle on a group of requests, defined via classifiers.