[c-nsp] Licensing question for ASR9000

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 02:25:37PM +0000, Nick Hilliard via cisco-nsp wrote:
> I have no major issue with reasonable RTU licensing, but that's "reasonable"
> as defined by the customer rather than by the vendor. In a couple of weeks
> time, I'll be putting in an order with one of my networking suppliers for
> additional RTU licensing for some kit, and will be quite happy to do so. The
> costs don't sting, the feature set doesn't sting, it's RTU, and there are no
> practical sting-in-the-tail issues.

This nicely brings up a different rant I have with certain vendors - so
the list price is insane, and for the initial order of "lots of things"
a reasonable end price can be negotiated.

But when you come back and want one (1) "pay as you grow" license the
next year, you're back to list price and since the volume is uninteresting
enough (and you're basically locked in) no reasonable discounts...

Other vendors are much less nasty to work with than who-must-not-be-named
with the bridge in the logo...

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