The Cisco ASR1001-X Throughput license is an honor-based license. Meaning, there's no need to purchase the 20 Gbps Throughput Product Activation Key (PAK) license. Just simply activate it, accept the End User License Agreement (EULA) and reload the router to take effect.
Cisco IOS XE Software feature licenses
◦ Certain functions supported on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series require feature licenses.
◦ All Cisco ASR 1000 feature and performance upgrade licenses are honor-based; that is, they are not enforced through a Product Activation Key (PAK). Note: Prior to Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.7S, performance upgrade licenses that are required to upgrade the Cisco ASR 1001 from 2.5 to 5 Gbps or the Cisco ASR 1002-X from 5 to 10 to 20 to 36 Gbps are enforced through a PAK. Similarly, prior to Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.6S, technology package licenses are enforced through a PAK.
ASR1K#configure
terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
ASR1K(config)#platform hardware throughput level 20000000
Feature Name:throughput_20g
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS CAREFULLY. INSTALLING THE LICENSE OR
LICENSE KEY PROVIDED FOR ANY CISCO PRODUCT FEATURE OR USING SUCH
PRODUCT FEATURE CONSTITUTES YOUR FULL ACCEPTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING
TERMS. YOU MUST NOT PROCEED FURTHER IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO BE BOUND
BY ALL THE TERMS SET FORTH HEREIN.
Use of this product feature requires an additional license from Cisco,
together with an additional payment. You may use this product feature
on an evaluation basis, without payment to Cisco, for 60 days. Your use
of the product, including during the 60 day evaluation period, is
subject to the Cisco end user license agreement
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/warranty/English/EU1KEN_.html
If you use the product feature beyond the 60 day evaluation period, you
must submit the appropriate payment to Cisco for the license. After the
60 day evaluation period, your use of the product feature will be
governed solely by the Cisco end user license agreement (link above),
together with any supplements relating to such product feature. The
above applies even if the evaluation license is not automatically
terminated and you do not receive any notice of the expiration of the
evaluation period. It is your responsibility to determine when the
evaluation period is complete and you are required to make payment to
Cisco for your use of the product feature beyond the evaluation period.
Your acceptance of this agreement for the software features on one
product shall be deemed your acceptance with respect to all such
software on all Cisco products you purchase which includes the same
software. (The foregoing notwithstanding, you must purchase a license
for each software feature you use past the 60 days evaluation period,
so that if you enable a software feature on 1000 devices, you must
purchase 1000 licenses for use past the 60 day evaluation period.)
Activation of the software command line interface will be evidence of
your acceptance of this agreement.
ACCEPT?
(yes/[no]): yes
% The config will take effect on next reboot
ASR1K(config)#
Feb 15 14:24:18.111: %LICENSE-6-EULA_ACCEPTED: EULA for feature throughput_20g 1.0 has been accepted. UDI=ASR1001-X:JAE19261234; StoreIndex=11:Built-In License Storage
ASR1K(config)#
Feb 15 14:24:18.597: %PARSER-5-CFGLOG_LOGGEDCMD: User:johxx logged command:platform hardware throughput level 20000000
ASR1K(config)#end
ASR1K#write memory
Building configuration...
Feb 15 14:25:32.979: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by johxx on console[OK]
Feb 15 14:25:38.738: %SYS-2-PRIVCFG_ENCRYPT: Successfully encrypted private config file
ASR1K#reload
The following license(s) are transitioning, expiring or have expired.
Features with expired licenses may not work after Reload.
Feature: throughput_20g ,Status: transition, Period Left: 8 wks 3 days
Proceed with reload? [confirm] <ENTER>
<OUTPUT TRUNCATED>
*Feb 15 14:10:09.234: boot_env_str = adventerprise,all:asr1001x;
*Feb 15 14:10:10.477: %LICENSE-6-EULA_ACCEPT_ALL: The Right to Use End User License Agreement is accepted
*Feb 15 14:10:10.512: %IOS_LICENSE_IMAGE_APPLICATION-6-LICENSE_LEVEL: Module name = asr1001x Next reboot level = adventerprise and License = adventerprise
*Feb 15 14:10:12.919: %IOSXE_THROUGHPUT-6-LEVEL: Throughput level has been set to 20000000 kbps
ASR1K#show platform hardware throughput level
The current throughput level is 20000000 kb/s
ASR1K#show version
Cisco IOS XE Software, Version 16.0x.0x
Cisco IOS Software [Fuji], ASR1000 Software (X86_64_LINUX_IOSD-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 16.x.x, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2019 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 20-Mar-19 08:02 by mcpre
<OUTPUT TRUNCATED>
License Type: Permanent
License Level: adventerprise
Next reload license Level: adventerprise
The current throughput level is 20000000 kbps
Smart Licensing Status: Smart Licensing is DISABLED
ASR1K ASR1001-X (1NG) processor (revision 1NG) with 3853454K/6147K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID FXS22501234
6 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
2 Ten Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
32768K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
8388608K bytes of physical memory.
6594559K bytes of eUSB flash at bootflash:.
0K bytes of WebUI ODM Files at webui:.
Configuration register is 0x2102
