[c-nsp] Bandwidth/capacity per demand

[Jared Mauch]

On Jan 11, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Jeferson Guardia wrote:

> 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.

Some cisco equipment (and Juniper) can be licensed in this manner by paying for RTU of features and capabilities.

- Jared