External NSP communication

Introduction

The NSP provides a number of external interfaces to the client and mediation networks, as shown in the following figure. Each external interface is secured using TLS.

Figure 7-2: External NSP interfaces
External NSP interfaces
Client network

The following table lists the consumers associated with each NSP client interface shown in Figure 7-2, External NSP interfaces.

Table 7-1: NSP client interfaces and consumers

Interface

Consumers

C1, C2, C4

Web clients

NSP OSS clients

NFM-P OSS clients

C3

NFM-P GUI clients

C5

External Syslog server

External authentication source

External e-mail server

Mediation network

The following table lists the function of each NSP mediation interface shown in Figure 7-2, External NSP interfaces.

Table 7-2: NSP mediation interfaces and functions

Interface

Function

M1

Optical network mediation using SNMP, TL1

M2

VSR-NRC network mediation using BGP, PCEP, PCEPS

M3

Legacy network mediation using SNMP, TL1

M4

IP NE mediation using gRPC/gNMI, SNMP, NETCONF, SSH

NE communication using CLI via SSH

M5

Mediator communication with external controller

REST/RESTCONF API