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Software Licenses for Northstar Planner

Northstar Planner supports subscription licenses.

Go through the following tables:

Table 1: Northstar Planner SKUs Definition

SKU

SKU Character Description

S-NSP-1/10/100-S1/A1-C1/C2/C3/C4-1/3/5

S—Software

NSP—Product name: NorthStar Planner

1/10/100—Licenses metrics for 1, 10, or 100 devices

S1/A1—Standard 1, or Advanced 1 software subscription

C1/C2/C3/C4—Device class

1/3/5—Subscription term: 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years

Table 2: NorthStar Planner Software Licenses

Features with Licenses

Northstar Planner

Use Case for Advanced (includes standard features): Advanced capacity planning

Compliancy assessment

Advanced

Cost based design

Advanced

Fast reroute planning

Advanced

GRE tunnels

Advanced

Hardware inventory and reports

Advanced

Integrity check and reports

Advanced

Multicast planning

Advanced

Network slicing planning

Advanced

P2MP planning

Advanced

Traffic matrix solver

Advanced

VPN analysis and planning

Advanced

Use Case for Standard: Basic network planning

BGP analysis

Standard

Capacity planning

Standard

CoS analysis and planning

Standard

Data collection from Northstar Controller

Standard

Detailed reporting

Standard

ECMP analysis

Standard

Failure simulation

Standard

File based data insertion (configuration, operational, tunnels, delays, and demands)

Standard

Path assignments

Standard

Policy based routes

Standard

Routing protocols

Standard

Static routes

Standard

Table 3: Northstar Planner License SKUs

Northstar Planner

SKU

Advanced

S-NSP-100-A1-C1-1/3/5

S-NSP-10-A1-C2-1/3/5

S-NSP-1-A1-C3-1/3/5

S-NSP-1-A1-C4-1/3/5

Standard

S-NSP-100-S1-C1-1/3/5

S-NSP-10-S1-C2-1/3/5

S-NSP-1-S1-C3-1/3/5

S-NSP-1-S1-C4-1/3/5

Table 4: NorthStar Controller and NorthStar Planner Devices Support

Device Class

Description

Supported Devices

C1

Extra-small devices such as mobile backhaul access devices, and small or remote CPE devices

ACX500, ACX710, ACX1000, ACX1100, ACX2100, ACX2200, cSRX, EX2300, and SRX300

C2

Small devices such as compact, fixed-form-factor switches, metro access switches, and top-of-rack switches

ACX4000, ACX5048, ACX5096, ACX5448, ACX6160, ACX6360, EX4300, EX4600, EX4650, EX9250, MX5, MX10, MX40, MX80, MX104, MX150, MX204, vMX, PTX1000, PTX10001, QFX5110, QFX5120, QFX5200, QFX5210, QFX5220, QFX10002, SRX550, SRX1500, SRX4100, SRX4200, and vSRX

C3

Small chassis-based switches, routers, and firewalls (chassis with less than or equal to six slots)

EX9204, M Series, MX Series GNFs, MX240, MX480, MX10003, PTX10002, PTX10003, SRX3400, SRX3600, SRX4600, and SRX5400

C4

Large chassis-based systems (chassis with more than six slots)

EX9208, EX9214, MX960, MX2008, MX2010, MX2020, MX10008, MX10016, PTX3000, PTX5000, PTX10008, PTX10016, QFX10008, QFX10016, SRX5600, SRX5800, and T Series