[c-nsp] Bandwidth/capacity per demand

[Jeferson Guardia]

Could you please provide more information about it? I am very interested on
getting to know about those things.

Thank you!!

2011/1/11 Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net>

>
> 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