What the NSP provides

Service rollout and management

The NSP facilitates rapid service provisioning and activation, and provides timely service performance, usage, and fault information.

Traffic optimization

The NSP automates traffic management by controlling and steering flows as required.

Data collection and analysis

The NSP monitors network KPIs for immediate and trend-based reporting. You can view near-real-time NE KPIs, and identify network trends using NSP analytics reports that are based on collected flow statistics or NE telemetry data.

Network administration

You can define groups of network objects for access by specific user groups, and create policies that define NSP operator access to objects and functions.

The NSP provides the ability to create network intents and workflows that define the scope and flow of network management operations.

Programming

The NSP programming functions enable the design of NSP network intents and workflows to automate routine and repetitive tasks in a specifically prescribed manner. Using vendor-agnostic intent and workflow frameworks for equipment deployment and management, the NSP performs network mediation based on YANG models that support network synchronization, OAM test execution, and event reporting.

Inventory management

An NSP classic management deployment dynamically maintains a network equipment data store for SNMP-managed devices. See Chapter 2, NSP product offerings for information about NSP deployment options.