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Cisco PLR license is an easy-to-use and intuitive smart licensing solution which enables all premium features and full capabilities on the certain devices. Unlike the Cisco smart licensing, the Cisco PLR license needs no inbound or outbound Internet connectivity between the device and Cisco smart software manager. This solution is ideal for highly secure environments with restricted Internet connection allows all product instances offline registration.
Currently, The Cisco Catalyst 3650 PLR license, Cisco Catalyst 3750 PLR license and Cisco Catalyst 3850 PLR license are available for Cisco Catalyst 3000 family switches. Customers, by generating a request code within the device’s CLI and sending it to a Cisco partner, can apply a received authorization code in the device which activates full platform’s features.
Applying the PLR license on the Catalyst 3000 families activates complete access and enterprise Layer 2 capabilities including:
Access and enterprise access Layer 3 protocols including:
Basic and enhanced manageability features including:
Complete access and enterprise security capabilities containing:
Finally, for access and enterprise QoS purposes it supports:
To wrap it up, Cisco PLR license counts as a reliable and trustworthy solution for enterprises which removes all smart licensing challenges.
Please note that Cisco PLR licenses cannot be moved between devices and are node-locked. This means that, the installed PLR license cannot be re-installed after return from the device. So, if the customer returns the authorization code in CLI, the code would not be valid anymore.
In conclusion, Cisco Catalyst PLR licenses is more cost-effective compared with Cisco smart licenses.
Activating PLR License on IOS XE