Bandwidth (throughput) licence
Catalog row in Vendor License Metrics · Cited
- Unit
- Mbps / Gbps
- Aliases
- Throughput licence; bandwidth license
- Definition
- A licence that fixes the maximum throughput an ACOS instance (vThunder, bare metal or hardware platform) may process. Data sheets list bandwidth licence tiers such as Lab, 25 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps, available as perpetual or term-based licences.
- Counting rules
- Bandwidth is set per instance or appliance by the licence installed on it. On bare metal, bandwidth licences are tied to the maximum number of cores that can be allocated to ACOS (for example 10 Gbps with 4 cores and 60 Gbps with 24 cores for ADC).
- Floors / minimums
- Lowest cloud pre-installed tier 20 Mbps (ADC); CFW-ADC vThunder tier 25 Mbps; "Lab" tier for testing.
- Applies to products
- Thunder ADC
- Thunder CFW
- Thunder CGN
- vThunder
- Product category