Cambium is in administration, and cnMaestro Cloud has a date on it

Cambium Networks Limited, the main trading entity behind cnMaestro, entered administration on 14 September. The company statement says cnMaestro Cloud is intended to keep operating at least through 1 October. Nothing after that is promised.

What happens to the hardware

Production has stopped for Wi-Fi access points, NSE security devices and cnMatrix switches. Finished stock still sits with Cambium and its distributors, and distributors may sell what they hold. The fixed wireless business is expected to resume after a short pause. Wi-Fi, switching and security are not.

What customers are being told

The guidance for Enterprise customers, updated 18 September, is to migrate from cnMaestro Cloud to cnMaestro on-premises, and the route runs through a Cloud Anchor account. The on-premises instance therefore still asks Cambium’s cloud to validate licences and ownership, and new Anchor accounts created from 17 September include a 90-day cnMaestro X trial licence. Devices are meant to move in batches, one group at a time, and the switch port configuration added in Cloud 6.3 has no equivalent in on-premises 6.0, so those settings have to be saved by hand before anything migrates.

Customers on the community thread are asking what the guidance does not answer: whether devices left on the cloud after 1 October are locked out, what happens to NSE and CBRS kit, and whether paid X licences can be moved to a new Anchor. The FAQ says on-premises may get a final release that removes the cloud dependency, if nobody takes over the cloud.

My read

The access points will pass traffic for years. What expires is the account that manages them, and the migration path still points at the same cloud it is trying to escape. This is the local-first argument with the company’s own statement stapled to it: you buy the hardware and rent the control plane, and the control plane has a date on it. Anyone running cnMaestro should move before 1 October, then check what their kit still needs from the internet.

Source: Cambium Networks company statement, 16 September 2026 and Guidance for cnMaestro Enterprise Customers