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Software licensing

Software licensing

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Software licensing

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- [Instructor] One of the topics Cisco says we need to know about for the (indistinct) is how licensing works for Cisco Unified Communications. And they gave us two different licensing models that we should know about for the exam. And these are both different from the traditional licensing model that I used to use in years past when I would buy software like Cisco Unified Communications Manager. It would come in a cardboard box, there would a DVD with the software inside and there would also be a card inside of that box that had what was called a PAK, a Product Authorization Key. And I would take that key along with the Mac address of the server on which I was going to install the software. I would go to Cisco's licensing portal, I would enter both the PAK and the Mac address, and that would generate my license. So that means that the license was tied to the Mac address of the server. That created some problems for me…

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