[f-nsp] mpls + bgp support on NI CES2K

[Nick Hilliard]

On 12/05/2013 01:14, Jon Maiman wrote:
> You can do both BGP and MPLS on a CES with the caveat that the FIB size is
> smaller (as expected). To do both on the CES, you need both the Layer 4
> Premium and the Metro Edge Premium software upgrade licenses installed on
> the same switch. The CER licensing model is different.

Jon,

thanks for replying.  Oh my.

I don't know who might have thought that disabling BGP in the MPLS license
was a good idea, or why.  Perhaps it happened because some product managers
started to believe that software licenses were about enabling features (the
vendor viewpoint) rather than disabling them, which is how customers view
licenses.

Look, whatever.  It's not clear from the brocade web site that if you want
an mpls device which actually works on actual networks, you need the two
licenses.

What's more important from Brocade's point of view is that the combined
licensing requirement drives the end-user pricing point of the CES2K higher
than your competitors' equivalent products.

Nick