[c-nsp] Internet border router recommendations and experiences

[Andrey Kostin]

Recent Juniper licensing model called "Flex software license" can be 
found here:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/license/juniper-licensing-admin-guide.pdf
Sorry for the link to huge pdf, but looks like Juniper now redirects all 
my bookmarked pages to this document.
In short, there are three levels: standard, advanced and premium. 
Standard has very low usability, advanced covers the most of use cases, 
and premium adds some icing on the cake. Standard is included with 
hardware, Advanced and Premium are available as perpetual or 1-3-5 years 
time based. Time-based licenses include HW support, for perpetual 
conventional NBD support has to be purchased. From my estimate, 
time-based licenses are little less expensive on 5 years span, but on 8 
years span perpetual gets better.
High performance devices and linecards can be licensed for partial 
number of 100G or 400G ports and there is a minimum number for each 
product that has to be licensed.
According to the document mentioned above, subscriber services need 
separate licenses, although before I was told by Juniper that Premium 
license covers everything, so this is new discovery for me. There are 
packages for 4,8,16,32 and 64 thousand subscribers. They are not very 
expensive compared to the price of hardware.

Hope this is helpful for OP.

Kind regards,
Andrey

Mark Tinka via cisco-nsp писал(а) 2023-02-24 13:18:
> On 2/24/23 19:51, Lukas Tribus via cisco-nsp wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> 
>> for the unititiated, how does the licensing on a mx204 look like for
>> different or combined use-cases like pure IP edge, mpls layer3 and 
>> layer2
>> VPNs, BNG functionality?
> 
> IIRC, BNG deployments support up to 1,000 concurrent subscribers by
> default. Anything more requires a license that should be purchased and
> activated on the router.
> 
> For all other non-BNG features, the license is honour-based, and may
> get enforced during a TAC call.
> 
> Mark.
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