Managing SBC Licenses

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• Node-Locked Licensing – This is the traditional and most common method of licensing on SBC. All sessions and features are locked to a specific SBC node which is identified through its hardware serial number or Virtual Machine Universal Unique Identifier (UUID).  
• Network-Wide Licensing – Ribbon provides a network-wide licensing (NWL) option for customers who do not want licensing capacity to be defined on each node level. Instead, they purchase a total number of sessions and a feature set intended to meet the requirements of their entire network. Note, NWL uses the same underlying node-locked licenses, but additional ‘burst’ licenses are installed to allow flexibility in capacity.
• Domain Locked Licensing – Domain-Locked Licensing (DL) is offered to SBC SWe cloud and CNe deployments where SBC instances may be brought up and down dynamically based on traffic. In this model, a domain license is bound to the domain through public/private key-pairing and it defines the features and capacity allowed for all nodes within the domain. When a new SBC node is brought up, it can leverage licenses from the domain pool.
  • True Forward Subscription Licensing – This method of licensing relies upon the Domain Locked Licensing infrastructure for successful operation. Domain Locked Licensing supplies critical services for a successful subscription deployment, namely:
    •    Centralized subscription licensing management;
    •    Recognition of licensed product(s) feature(s) successful delivery;
    •    Accounting for licensed product(s) feature(s) successful delivery through supplementary quotes for events such as True Forward Growth.

NWL and NWDL licensing require customers to agree to share license usage data with

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