License Keys and Provisioned Entitlements Compatibility

The Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller can continue to support license keys as used for legacy licensing and the provisioned entitlements in ongoing capacity for unlocking features on the system.

The licensing and entitlements processes work with each other, as follows.

• You must use self-provisioning to enable features and session capacity on all platforms.
• Oracle only provides license keys to enable specific features and capacities not available for self-provisioning, such as codecs (AMR, EVRC, SILK, and Opus) and regulatory features (government security).
• Upon migrating to self-provisioned entitlements, the system seeds the current range of your installed license keys to the self-provisioned entitlements. The system's functionality remains identical.
• When you upgrade to self-provisioned entitlements and then downgrade the software to an older version that requires license keys, any pre-existing license keys will still function.
• When you upgrade to self-provisioned entitlements and then change the functionality (such as, adding more SIP sessions or removing a feature set), the new functionality will not be present upon downgrade to an older version that requires license keys.