On 24/10/2025 08:27, Gert Doering via cisco-nsp wrote:
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).
Unfortunately, Cisco are not alone. Juniper are also quickly going down this path, especially with their newer MX line.
I have sensed a linear relationship between this strategy and the growing silence on c-nsp and j-nsp.
Operators are losing interest. Mark. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
