Re: [c-nsp] Licensing question for ASR9000

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Hi,

On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 08:26:10AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher via cisco-nsp wro=
te:
> Cisco and our Gold Partner are still trying to figure out whether we inde=
ed
> need new extra licenses=20

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                             [email protected]=
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