[c-nsp] Bandwidth/capacity per demand

[Jeferson Guardia]

Hi,

I work with other telecom geat and Ive been seeing very often the concept of
capacity per demand.

For example:

A customer buys a powerful hardware but doesnt want to pay for it, but
someday he might need it, so what happens is:

They sell the powerful hardware with a good throughput and etc, but limited
to what he paid. If one day he needs more capacity, he would
pay an additional and get a new "license" and be able to have more capacity
in terms of performance.

I dont know if any of you have worked with any product that is set up this
way, but I was wondering if Cisco has ever came up with something like this?


I am only asking you that because today I had a customer interested on
planning a small IP backbone this way, saving money and at the same time
being
able to scalate easily to support drastic changes.

Rgs,