FL-CUBEE-100-RED

FL-CUBEE-100-RED is a Cisco Unified Communications licence. It is software rather than hardware, so nothing ships: a key or entitlement is applied to equipment you already have. The catalogue describes it as Unified Border Element Ent Lic, 100 Sessions, Redundancy for CME.

It is sized at 100 sessions. Licences of this shape are counted, so the quantity has to match what the system actually serves, and they usually stack rather than replace each other.

Before you go any further: this licence is for a platform the vendor no longer supports. Cisco’s per-phone CUCM licensing reached last day of support on 31 January 2018, and the phones these licences cover are not supported on current CUCM releases. We have left the listing up because people do still search for these part numbers, usually while working out what they have or what to do about it, and a page that tells you the truth is more use than a dead link.

What that means in practice. The licence may still function on equipment already running, because a perpetual licence does not stop working when support ends. What you cannot get is a software fix, a security patch, a hardware replacement under contract, or help from the vendor when something breaks. On anything carrying traffic that matters, or anything exposed to a network you do not control, that is the real risk rather than the licence itself.

What we would rather do than sell you this. Tell us what the equipment is actually doing and we will tell you what the current equivalent is and roughly what replacing it involves. If you are keeping the platform deliberately, which is a legitimate decision in plenty of cases, we can often still source licences and spares from secondary channels, and we would rather you heard the trade-off from us than discovered it later.

The RED suffix indicates a redundant or secondary-unit licence, intended for the standby device in a resilient pair rather than as a second primary. Confirm which role the equipment plays, because the two are priced and licensed differently.

How this licensing worked, since it confuses people looking at old paperwork. Cisco Unified Communications Manager licensed telephony per device: every handset, soft client or gateway endpoint consumed an entitlement, and the licence count rather than the server capacity was what limited how many phones a system could register. Part numbers in this family are those per-device entitlements, bought in blocks as a deployment grew. Cisco has since moved the whole product line to subscription licensing, where entitlement follows the user rather than the device and is counted centrally, which is why nothing in the current catalogue looks remotely like these codes. If you are maintaining a system still running this way, the thing worth knowing is that the licence count is probably the constraint you will hit first when adding phones.

Green Code Technologies supplies Cisco and Huawei equipment and licences alongside HPE, Dell, Samsung and Netgear. We would rather tell you a part is no longer supported, or that we need to check it, than take an order for something that will not do what you need. Send us the platform, the software release and what you are trying to achieve and we will come back with a straight answer.