Where do I start?

The planning phase

Before you consider deploying a new NSP system, upgrading or adding to a system, or modifying a system in any way, the reader is strongly encouraged to become familiar with the following guides:

• NSP System Architecture Guide, for the product description, NSP deployment options, and NSP access information

• NSP Planning Guide, for pre-deployment requirements, system specifications, restrictions, and special considerations

• NSP Release Notice, for release-specific information that may apply to your deployment, and technical updates not captured in other NSP guides

After you identify your deployment requirements under consultation with a Nokia representative, the response to an NSP Platform Sizing Request that you submit to Nokia provides the required parameters for your deployment operation.

Using this guide

After the planning phase, you must become familiar with the relevant content in this and the subsequent Part I: Getting started chapters, which describe NSP platform preparation.

When the platform configuration is established, your planned deployment action can proceed using the required procedures in Part II: NSP system deployment, for system-level NSP deployment operations, and Part III: NSP component deployment, for operations specific to NSP components that are deployed outside an NSP cluster.