<div dir="ltr"><div>The feature licensing has pros and cons. If you need all of the features required, it is frustrating to have to buy the licenses. If you *don't* need all of those features, though, it is nice not to have to pay for them. Maybe Brocade could market two different configurations, a "full" configuration with all licenses and a "light" configuration with none of them with an a la carte list of additional upgrades available. That would allow people to purchase a fully licensed unit and not have to worry about being "nickled and dimed" with the various licenses while people needing only a subset of features can put together set of only the features they need. The problem is the way the literature is put together. It is difficult to get a grip on exactly what you need or if the CER can handle your needs. <br>
<br></div>As for cannibalizing MLX sales, honestly, the way I think of the CER is as a miniature MLX. I think of it as a one slot MLX.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Greg Hankins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ghankins@mindspring.com" target="_blank">ghankins@mindspring.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Let me clarify the CES and CER architectures real quick. As Nick nicely<br>
said, the fixed form factor routers are designed with feature scalability<br>
and cost trade-offs to provide a lower port price vs. a modular chassis.<br>
<br>
The NPUs are merchant silicon, but each router also has an FPGA that<br>
handles various control plane packets that need to be processed with<br>
subsecond latency (for example, we are adding BFD hardware assist in 5.6).<br>
<br>
We hear your negative feedback about feature licensing.<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
(works for Brocade)<br>
(as a product management person)<br>
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--<br>
Greg Hankins <<a href="mailto:ghankins@mindspring.com">ghankins@mindspring.com</a>><br>
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