On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 23:36, James Jun <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:59:59PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > > Have you considered the NCS540? > > > > We did. Two major problems as I've shared on this list before: > > > > ?????? - IOS XR > > ?????? - Broadcom chipset > > There is a third problem with NCS 540: licensing is an absolute, disgusting > mess. > > There does not appear to be perpetual license models anymore for NCS 540. > Cloud > based Smart Licensing is now required on a recurring subscription payment > model. > The longest recurring payment plan is 60 months, which I guess you could > argue is > doable, but we don't want to deal with cloud-based licensing in our backbone.
Oh that's annoying to hear, I haven't got my hands on NCS-540 yet but I'm planning to in Jan or Feb 2020 and was hoping it would be like ASR9K (one time license files). Cheers, James. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
