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.
• Network-Wide Domain Licensing – Network-wide domain licensing (NWDL) licensing is offered to SBC SWe cloud 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.

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