[c-nsp] Licensing question for ASR9000

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 08:26:10AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher via cisco-nsp wrote:
> Cisco and our Gold Partner are still trying to figure out whether we indeed
> need new extra licenses 

This is one of the reasons why we've stopped buying Cisco.

First, they invent all the licensing bullshit, then, they spend more
engineering on licensing enforcement than on "build a working router",
and *then* they don't even know how the licensing stuff works.

$Customer had this with NCS5700 - there is like 4 (5?) different licenses,
to be bought for every 100Gbit/s that are used on interfaces with the
corresponding features on them (!?), and because nobody understands
what that means in practice, there's a discounted license bundle that
includes all of them... (and of course you need to by 800G worth of
licensing anyway, as that's the minimum possible).

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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