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Flex Software License for Northstar Controller
NorthStar Controller
Table 1 shows the definition of Juniper Networks NorthStar Controller license SKUs.
Table 1: NorthStar Controller SKU Definition
License SKU | SKU Character Description |
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S-NSC-1/10/100-S1/A1/P1-C1/C2/C3/C4-1/3/5 | S—Software NSC—Product name: NorthStar Controller 1/10/100—License metrics for 1, 10, or 100 devices S1/A1/P1—Standard 1, Advanced 1, or Premium 1 software subscription C1/C2/C3/C4—Device class 1/3/5—Subscription term: 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years |
Table 2 describes the licensing support with use case examples for the NorthStar Controller.
Figure 1 shows NorthStar Controller features for the standard, advanced, and premium licenses.

Table 2: Supported Features on the NorthStar Controller
License Model | License SKUs | Use Case Example or Solution | Detailed Features |
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Standard | S-NSC-100-S1-C1-1/3/5 S-NSC-10-S1-C2-1/3/5 S-NSC-1-S1-C3-1/3/5 S-NSC-1-S1-C4-1/3/5 | Network visualization and monitoring | Collection using HealthBot, cRPD support, delay visualization, dynamic topology acquisition, flow collection, interface statistics visualization, Juniper Telemetry Interface (JTI) telemetry collection, LDP Forwarding Equivalent Class (FEC), LSP reporting, point-to-multipoint (P2MP) LSP visualization, SNMP based collection, statistics visualization (RSVP and segment routing), and topology visualization |
Advanced | S-NSC-100-A1-C1-1/3/5 S-NSC-10-A1-C2-1/3/5 S-NSC-1-A1-C3-1/3/5 S-NSC-1-A1-C4-1/3/5 | LSP provisioning | Includes standard features plus auto-bandwidth LSPs (NorthStar managed), diverse LSPs, high availability, LSP optimization (bandwidth, delay), LSP provisioning (RSVP and segment routing), LSP templates, maintenance events, P2MP LSP provisioning, standby and secondary LSPs, symmetric pair groups, enhanced traffic engineering (TE++) LSPs, and time-based LSP scheduling |
Premium | S-NSC-100-P1-C1-1/3/5 S-NSC-10-P1-C2-1/3/5 S-NSC-1-P1-C3-1/3/5 S-NSC-1-P1-C4-1/3/5 | Advanced transport engineering | Includes advanced features, egress peering engineering and ingress peering engineering , multilayer packet-optical support, and network slicing management |