The Network Services Platform, or NSP, provides role-based network equipment, infrastructure, service rollout, resource control, and FCAPS management within and among multiple network domains.

The NSP management scope includes Nokia and multi-vendor network elements, or NEs, using a variety of protocols and element-management mechanisms. The NSP has interfaces for functions such as programmable multi-layer service provisioning, rollout, and activation.

The following notable changes were introduced in the 26.4 NSP Planning Guide:

• NFM-P has been tested with macOS 26 (Tahoe).

• NSP no longer supports the Haswell microarchitecture. Intel CPUs must be from the Skylake microarchitecture.

• Some scale numbers have been updated. Refer to sections 5.2.1 and 5.2.3 Chapter 5, Scaling and performance.

• Refer to section 6.5.1 for NSP port communications changes.