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Methodology & Assumptions
How the DNext Annual License Fee is computed, how OWU is measured, and how to tune the pricing anchors for your commercial scenario.
Assumptions · this scenario only
Pricing anchors
Xmin — lower OWU threshold
CFSGs below Xmin fall into the Entry band (lower scale).
Xmax — upper OWU threshold
CFSGs within Xmin–Xmax are in the Base band (scale 1.0).
Median CFSG price (€)
Base P&SM-ALF anchor. The four bands are multiples of this value.
RM-ALF base prices per resource type
Identifier
EUR · Base tier anchor
Network
EUR · Base tier anchor
Infrastructure
EUR · Base tier anchor
Endpoint / IoT / Sensors
EUR · Base tier anchor
Reference document
DNext Fair Value Pricing Model — executive summary
The DNext Annual License Fee (DNext-ALF) is the sum of two independent components. The first, P&SM-ALF, reflects the platform capabilities deployed — what the platform can do. The second, RM-ALF, reflects the resource footprint — what the platform operates on. Both components can be read, audited and reproduced from the same operational data, giving both operator and vendor a transparent basis for the subscription fee.
An Order Workload Unit quantifies one unit of fulfilment work performed by the DNext platform. Each external API call is weighted 2 OWU because it consumes an integration path with another system; each human task counts as 1 OWU because a human approves or performs the step; internal calls are weighted 0 because they only consume compute resources that are already accounted for in the RM-ALF. Aggregated over a year per CFSG, this gives an empirical measure of platform workload that is impossible to game — every record lands in the CDR feed.
P&SM-ALF is priced per Customer Facing Service Group. A CFSG is a set of Customer Facing Services that share a single fulfilment process — for example "Mobile Postpaid" or "Ethernet Virtual Private Line". The median base price is €80,000 per CFSG per year, adjusted by four workload bands: Entry (below Xmin), Base (within Xmin–Xmax), +50% and +100%.
The scale factor is higher for the Mobile market type than for Fixed or IoT/Cloud/Other because mobile fulfilment carries higher marginal integration complexity. The sum of all CFSG prices is the P&SM-ALF subtotal.
RM-ALF is priced per resource type and volume tier. Four resource classes are recognised: Identifier (massive scale, low unit cost), Network (moderate scale, mid unit cost), Infrastructure (low scale, high unit cost) and Endpoint / IoT / sensor (high scale, low unit cost). Each class has four volume tiers calibrated to the natural order-of-magnitude of its resources, and each tier applies a scale multiplier to the class-specific base price.