Contents

System Architecture Guide

About this document

1. NSP product overview

Introduction to the Network Services Platform

What the NSP provides

Related documentation

2. NSP product offerings

NSP software selection

Planning your deployment

Network Operations

Resource Control

Network Programming

3. NSP architecture fundamentals

NSP graphical user interfaces

NSP network mediation

Classic management architecture

4. Platform programmability

NSP programming frameworks

Workflow management framework

Intent management framework

Synchronization framework

Operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) framework

RESTCONF gateway

IETF standard models

5. Deployment fundamentals

NSP Kubernetes implementation

NSP analytics servers

NSP Flow Collectors and Flow Collector Controllers

Auxiliary database

Classic management components

6. Security architecture

NSP system security

User security and session management

Firewall support

NSP User Access Control

Activity logging

NFM-P system security

NSP software security summary

7. NSP communication

External NSP communication

Internal NSP communication

NFM-P communication

8. System redundancy and fault tolerance

Redundancy mechanisms

NSP system failure and recovery scenarios

MDM fault tolerance

NFM-P fault tolerance

VSR-NRC fault tolerance

NSP Flow Collector and Flow Collector Controller fault tolerance

Analytics server fault tolerance

Appendix A. NSP technology standards

NSP technology standards

Classic management technology standards