About this Guide

This preface describes the Cisco Ultra Services Platform Deployment Automation Guide, how it is organized, and its document conventions.

The Ultra Services Platform (USP) is a 5G-ready virtual mobility network platform that provides a robust and highly scalable architecture that can quickly deploy mobility services across a distributed network in a virtualized environment.

The USP is a complex Virtual Network Function (VNF) conforming to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) specifications.

Conventions Used

The following tables describe the conventions used throughout this documentation.

Notice Type Description

Information Note

Provides information about important features or instructions.

Caution

Alerts you of potential damage to a program, device, or system.

Warning

Alerts you of potential personal injury or fatality. May also alert you of potential electrical hazards.

Typeface Conventions Description

Text represented as a screen display

This typeface represents displays that appear on your terminal screen, for example:

Login:

Text represented as commands

This typeface represents commands that you enter, for example:

show ip access-list

This document always gives the full form of a command in lowercase letters. Commands are not case sensitive.

Text represented as a command variable

This typeface represents a variable that is part of a command, for example:

show card slot_number

slot_number is a variable representing the desired chassis slot number.

Text represented as menu or sub-menu names

This typeface represents menus and sub-menus that you access within a software application, for example:

Click the File menu, then click New

Obtaining Documentation

Nephelo Documentation

The most current Nephelo documentation is available on the following website: http:/​/​nephelo.cisco.com/​page_​vPC.html

StarOS Documentation

The most current Cisco documentation is available on the following website: http:/​/​www.cisco.com/​cisco/​web/​psa/​default.html

Use the following path selections to access the StarOS documentation:

Products > Wireless > Mobile Internet > Platforms > Cisco ASR 5000 Series > Configure > Configuration Guides

Contacting Customer Support

Use the information in this section to contact customer support.

Refer to the support area of http://www.cisco.com for up-to-date product documentation or to submit a service request. A valid username and password are required to access this site. Please contact your Cisco sales or service representative for additional information.