Steel-Belted Radius Carrier 7.2.x Administration and Configuration Guide > Steel-Belted Radius Carrier Overview > Licensing

Licensing

Steel-Belted Radius Carrier uses four types of licensing.

• The base server license (SBR-CAR-AAA) delivers all core functionality on a single server and supports up to 50,000 concurrent sessions.
• Additional concurrent user licenses are available to increase the number of concurrent sessions that a server may handle. These are cumulative licenses that enhance the base server license. For example, if you start with a base server license (50,000 sessions) on two servers and purchase an additional 50,000 sessions license, each server is licensed for 100,000 sessions total — you may apply additional session licenses to all servers at a site. Licenses are available for different numbers of additional sessions, up to 2,000,000:

• Add 50,000 concurrent sessions (SBR-CAR-ADD-50K)
• Add 100,000 concurrent sessions (SBR-CAR-ADD-100K)
• Add 250,000 concurrent sessions (SBR-CAR-ADD-250K)
• Add 500,000 concurrent sessions (SBR-CAR-ADD-500K)
• Add 1,000,000 concurrent sessions (SBR-CAR-ADD-1M)
• Add 2,000,000 concurrent sessions (SBR-CAR-ADD-2M)

• Optional add-on modules, except Session State Register, are licensed on a per-server basis and requires that the server already have a base server (SBR-CAR-AAA) license. Currently available modules are:

• Optional WiMAX Mobility Module (SBR-CAR-WMM).
• Optional JavaScripting (SBR-CAR-JSC).
• Optional SIM Authentication Module (SBR-CAR-SIM).
• Optional Session Control Module (SBR-CAR-SCM)

• The Optional Session State Register (high availability) Module has special license offerings.

• The Steel-Belted Radius Carrier Session State Register cluster starter kit provides two data node licenses and two management node licenses.

• The two combined node licenses are valid on one computer each.
• The SSR cluster license enables multiple additional SBR Carrier nodes to access the cluster's database. (SBR-SSR-START)

• The Steel-Belted Radius Carrier Session State Register cluster expansion kit provides two additional data node licenses. One expansion kit may be added to a starter kit, so the SSR cluster can grow beyond the Starter Kit's two data node licences to include four data nodes. (SBR-SSR-EXP).
• Additional single Steel-Belted Radius Carrier Session State Register management node licenses are available. The SSR cluster can grow beyond the Starter Kit's two combination management node licences to include a third management node. (SBR-SSR-EXP)(SBR-SSR-MNGMT)
• The optional Concurrency and Wholesale Module (SBR-CAR-CWM) license enables you to manage user concurrency across multiple servers connected to the same session storage cluster. Concurrency can be managed based on username, as well as any attribute.

SBR Administrator

The SBR Administrator is not licensed; you may install it on as many workstations as you require.