Nokia NSP Network Planning

After completing the course, students should be able to:
 

• Define “network planning”
• Describe the NSP network planning functionalities
• Explain the importance of “capacity planning”
• Describe and configure NSP Baseline Analytics
• Demonstrate how to configure, execute and analyze NSP analytics reports for “capacity planning”
• Explain the importance of “inventory management”
• Demonstrate how to configure, execute and analyze NSP analytics reports for “inventory management”
• Explain the importance of “equipment health monitoring”
• Demonstrate how to monitor general equipment health
• Explain the role of “forecasting” in network planning
• Describe how to configure, execute and analyze “LSP Throughput with Forecast” report
• Describe the role of the NSP Path Simulation function in network planning
• Demonstrate simulation scenarios for capacity planning
• Demonstrate simulation “What-If” scenarios
• Demonstrate a simulation “Worst-case failure” scenario
• Open Course modules configuration options

• Nokia NSP Overview: Management, Control and Automation of IP/Optical Networks | OP00020-W-19 

Module 1 – Network Planning

• Introduction to NSP network planning
• NSP Analytics and reporting
• Baseline Analytics
• Data collection analysis telemetry
   

Module 2 – Capacity Planning

• Capacity Planning and its’ significance
• Capacity Planning reports
• “NSP” type capacity planning reports examples
• Port Throughput Summary report
• SAP Throughput report
• Interface Utilization Summary report
• Temperature, CPU, Memory Utilization Summary report
   

Module 3 – Inventory Management

• Inventory Management and its’ purpose
• Inventory Management reports examples
• Card Inventory report
• Port Inventory report
   

Module 4 – Network and Service Health

• Explain the importance of equipment health monitoring
• Demonstrate how to monitor network and service health by using the NSP Network Health dashboard

Module 5 – Forecasting

• Role of forecasting in network planning
• “LSP Throughput with Forecast” report example
   

Module 6 – NSP Path Simulation for Capacity Planning

• NSP Path Simulation introduction
• Simulate modifying LSP demand bandwidth
• Simulate modifying link bandwidth
   

Module 7 – Path Simulation “What-if” Scenarios

• “What-if” scenario introduction
• Link failure simulation
• Parellel LSPs simulation
• Simulation network “reset”
   

Module 8 – NSP Simulator “Worst-case” Scenarios

• “Worst-case” failure scenario introduction
• “Worst-case” failure scenario example