Moving away from the traditional licensing model, we now roll over to the "real cool" licensing schemes on the ASR9K.
The **Smart licensing** and the **Consumption based model** offer a lot of additional benefits when it comes to ease of purchasing, management and reporting.
Sounds fun? Curious? Read on to know more.
- Smart licensing is a cloud-based software license management solution that enables you to automate time-consuming, manual licensing tasks. The solution allows you to easily track the status of your license and software usage trends.
- Consumption model brings in the much needed PAYG mode of licensing enabling customers to use what they want when they want. Smart licensing is the base requirement to move towards the Consumption model.
That's not all. We now have the revamped ASR9K licensing whitepaper on CCO. This is the one-stop-shop for all that is ASR9K licensing. A super neat FAQ section (one each for the traditional licensing , Smart licensing and Consumption based model) should guide you through all that you need to know.
Look up: http://www.cisco.com/web/Cisco_IOS_XR_Software/pdf/ASR9000_SWE_User_whitepaper.pdf
