[c-nsp] Cisco 8000

[James Bensley]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 23:36, James Jun <james at towardex.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:59:59PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> >
> > > Have you considered the NCS540?
> >
> > We did. Two major problems as I've shared on this list before:
> >
> > ?????? - IOS XR
> > ?????? - Broadcom chipset
>
> There is a third problem with NCS 540:  licensing is an absolute, disgusting mess.
>
> There does not appear to be perpetual license models anymore for NCS 540.  Cloud
> based Smart Licensing is now required on a recurring subscription payment model.
> The longest recurring payment plan is 60 months, which I guess you could argue is
> doable, but we don't want to deal with cloud-based licensing in our backbone.

Oh that's annoying to hear, I haven't got my hands on NCS-540 yet but
I'm planning to in Jan or Feb 2020 and was hoping it would be like
ASR9K (one time license files).

Cheers,
James.