[c-nsp] Rehosting a perpetual CSR1000V license

[Mark Tinka]

On 21/Jul/20 18:54, joe mcguckin wrote:
> We don’t buy anything that can’t be managed with a serial connection. That means no fancy web based guis.

iLO on servers is pretty reliable. It has helped us out plenty times.


>  Licensing is in the same category… A piece of equipment has to do something extraordinary before we’d consider purchasing it, if it implements some sort of license key scheme.  We’ve purchased Juniper M series routers in the past and were extremely happy with them (Hey! They actually did what Juniper said they would do without 2 or 3 rounds of hardware upgrades), but I was initially put off because there are license keys embedded in the base software. Then I realized that when the keys expired in 10 years, the boxes would be in the landfill by that time...

Well, pretty much everything shipping these days either has or can be
deployed by license.

It is the key way for vendors to implement the same silicon across a
myriad of platforms, without "losing" money.

Mark.