The Network Developer Portal houses information for NSP, IP Networking, and Optical Networking. While there are resources for all three products on this site, this topic focuses on NSP-related information only. Select the NSP drop-down menu to explore topics that cover, for example, an introduction to NSP, API documentation, a variety of tutorials, and NSP training.

The Portal content is available to logged-in users only; however, registration is free.

Note: The Network Developer Portal is subject to change off release cycle.

To help you automate your networks and simplify operations, the portal provides links to NSP RESTCONF API and NSP REST API resources. This includes Swagger documentation, Yang HTML browser, and sample code “Postman” collections for all of the listed NSP APIs.

Starting with NSP Release 25.4, the XML API Developer Guide, which was previously delivered in the Help Center of deployments that included NFM-P, has been migrated to Network Developer Portal.

Under Getting Started, you can learn more about NSP, APIs, and tools.

Clicking Introduction to NSP opens the NSP-dedicated product page which provides more details about NSP’s capabilities, including multi-vendor management and network automation.

The Introduction to APIs & Tools area provides information about developing your first NSP API Client and creating your own API samples using the Postman Development Platform.

The information accessible via the Deployment menu includes:

• API Reference

  This page includes learning resources about NSP API; RESTONF and YANG design; accessing, authenticating, and locating NSP APIs; and Kafka and YANG notification services.

  Additionally, this area provides links to topics such as Model Driven Configuration, Device Discovery, Path Control, or Transport Slices as well as NSP administration, users and network security, and Classic NFM-P management using REST API services.

• Artifact Development

  This page provides information related to network intents, resource administration, and workflows.

• Tutorials

  The tutorials cover a wide range of topics and may include Topology API, Telemetry, External Alarm Creation, VSCode Extensions, and more.

• Release Changes

  This area contains a table that lists functions, their API descriptions and API types along with a notice if there have been any changes release over release.

• Downloads

  This page allows you to download a variety of NSP documents and REST API sample collections referenced elsewhere on the portal.

• Archive

  The archive page contains articles for NSP releases going back to 17.9.

The Labs menu provides access to the NSP catalog, the Lab FAQ page, My Labs, and Redeem Voucher.

The NSP lab catalog offers a variety of dedicated lab environments tailored to different network management use cases. Here, you can reserve an NSP shared lab (free) or request lab quotes (paid) for a variety of setups, including, for instance, NSP Model-driven IP Management or NSP Classic IP Management with Enhanced Optimization. This allows you to evaluate NSP and develop and test NSP-enabled OSS applications.

The lab FAQ page answers common questions about the NSP labs, including, for example, who can use the NSP labs or how to set up a VPN tunnel to the lab.

On the My Labs page you can view the labs you have set up as well as perform select administrative tasks.

Home directs you to a page that describes why and how to transition from NFM-P to NSP, and what type of support is offered. This site also provides a form to register for a pre-evolution assessment.