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About this guide

This guide provides the information users need to deploy the Nokia community SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) on supported Nokia highly-scalable hardware platforms, such as the 7215 IXS-A1, 7250 IXR-10e, and 7220 IXR-H routers. This includes connectivity, upgrade, recovery, and CLI usage procedures for the SONiC open-source network operating system (NOS).

This guide assumes the use of supported Nokia hardware platforms that ship with Nokia community SONiC preinstalled. See the Nokia community SONiC Software Release Notes for the list of hardware that supports Nokia community SONiC. See the installation guide for each supported hardware platform for hardware-specific installation steps.

Note: This guide generically covers Nokia community SONiC Release 202405 and 202505 content, and may contain some content that will be released in later maintenance loads. See the Nokia community SONiC Software Release Notes for features supported or not supported per device in each load of the Release 202405 and 202505 software.

For additional build, configuration, and CLI references, see Resources for Nokia community SONiC users.

Conventions

This section describes the general conventions used in this guide.

Precautionary and information messages

The following information symbols are used in the documentation.

DANGER: Danger warns that the described activity or situation may result in serious personal injury or death. An electric shock hazard could exist. Before you begin work on this equipment, be aware of hazards involving electrical circuitry, be familiar with networking environments, and implement accident prevention procedures.
WARNING: Warning indicates that the described activity or situation may, or will, cause equipment damage, serious performance problems, or loss of data.
Caution: Caution indicates that the described activity or situation may reduce your component or system performance.
Note: Note provides additional operational information.
Tip: Tip provides suggestions for use or best practices.

Options or substeps in procedures and sequential workflows

Options in a procedure or a sequential workflow are indicated by a bulleted list. In the following example, at step 1, the user must perform the described action. At step 2, the user must perform one of the listed options to complete the step.

Options in a procedure

  1. User must perform this step.
  2. This step offers three options. User must perform one option to complete this step.
    • This is one option.
    • This is another option.
    • This is yet another option.

Substeps in a procedure or a sequential workflow are indicated by letters. In the following example, at step 1, the user must perform the described action. At step 2, the user must perform two substeps (a. and b.) to complete the step.

Substeps in a procedure

  1. User must perform this step.
  2. User must perform all substeps to complete this action.
    1. This is one substep.
    2. This is another substep.