PAY-AS-YOU-GROW FP4 HARDWARE LICENSING
REFERENCE GUIDE
Pay-As-You-Grow Licensing
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3 Pay-As-You-Grow Licensing
PAYG licensing is a new licensing method to support the purchase and activation of
IP router assemblies and platforms that more accurately addresses the focused and
evolving needs of Nokia customers. An initial system purchase can be targeted to the
the immediate requirements of small or large systems. At some later time, as network
requirements evolve, these systems can be upgraded through software license
distribution to increase system capacity and features. PAYG licensing also supports
the repurposing of cards from one role in the network to an another role.
PAYG licensing is introduced in three phases that address the key components of
the routers.
• Phase 1 introduces licensing of FP4-based hardware assemblies. A single
physical card design might now be sold as nine or more variants. These variants
all use the same card type but have different license levels encoded into the
hardware. Each level defines different limits to the hardware capacity and to the
functionality for that variant. Both the correct card type and license level must be
provisioned for a card to be brought out of reset.
• Phase 2 introduces the ability to change the license level of an FP4 hardware
assembly via downloaded software licenses. Phase 2 unlocks higher limits for
an assembly without requiring any replacement of hardware.
• Phase 3 introduces licensing of specialized system-level software features and
their scale for both FP3 and FP4 based systems. These system-level features
will be the set of features for which RTUs exist today. To use one or more of
these features, a software license must be downloaded to the system. If the
system detects a feature in use, it will permit the feature to be used but will raise
an indication to inform the operator that the system is missing the required
license.
Phase 1 and 2 were introduced in Release 16.0. Phase 3 is scheduled for
introduction in Release 20.
The key customer benefit is the ability to purchase hardware that is tailored to
specific roles in the network. For example, customers can purchase core routing
cards for the interconnection of their routers within their network and only purchase
high capacity cards for the network edge where those capabilities are needed. A core
routing card is scaled for a lower number of services as it will only be used on internal
network links. In addition, the customer can initially purchase lower connector or
bandwidth capacity variants of cards with the knowledge that as network
requirements grow, they will be able to unlock extra capacity through a software-only
upgrade process.
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