Cambium Networks cnMaestro™ Essentials

High-density enterprise environments with hundreds of concurrent Wi-Fi clients — corporate offices, campuses, and healthcare facilities.

cnMaestro™ Essentials
  • Specs: cnMaestro™ is a cloud-based or on-premises software platform for secure, end-to-end network control. Optimize system availability, maximize throughput, and meet emerging needs of business and residential customers.
  • cnMaestro™ is a cloud-based or on-premises software platform for secure, end-to-end network control.
  • Optimize system availability, maximize throughput, and meet emerging needs of business and residential customers.

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Product Overview

Cambium Networks cnMaestro™ Essentials

cnMaestro™ is a cloud-based or on-premises software platform for secure, end-to-end network control. Optimize system availability, maximize throughput, and meet emerging needs of business and residential customers.

Product Highlights

cnMaestro Essentials

Unlicensed, free version delivers the same experience as previous versions of cnMaestro. This license-free option delivers a disruptive total cost of ownership (TCO) for organizations of all sizes.

Paid subscription that includes advanced

management capabilities, AI troubleshooting, and Cambium Care Pro for 24x7 technical support, accelerated access to L2 engineers, and regular software updates and upgrades for advanced features.

Ideal Applications

High-density enterprise environments with hundreds of concurrent Wi-Fi clients — corporate offices, campuses, and healthcare facilities. Deployments requiring BSS Coloring and OFDMA for efficient spectrum use in congested RF environments.

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Technical Details

cnMaestro Management System

Features marked X require cnMaestro X subscription

Platform Features

Scale
  • Max number of managed devices: 10,000 (requires X for over 10,000 devices)
  • Max number of managed devices: X
    • 25,000 for enterprise
    • 40,000 for FWB
  • Management users: 10
  • Management users: 200 X
  • Managed service provider accounts X
    • Branded tenant login page X
    • Support for up to 200 accounts
  • Long-term data retention X
    • 2-year for Access & backhaul view
    • 1-year for enterprise & Industrial
    • internet view
Deployment
  • Cloud-hosted delivered as a service
  • Customer-hosted On-premises
  • Amazon Marketplace AMI
Onboarding & Provisioning
  • Zero-touch onboarding
  • Template configuration
  • Object configuration (enterprise)
  • RESTful provisioning API X
  • Auto-provisioning X
Visualization
  • Full visibility across network
  • Supports ePMP, cnMatrix, enterprise & residential Wi-Fi, PMP, PTP, cnReach, cnRanger™, NSE, PON
  • Multiple product views
    • Access & backhaul view
    • Enterprise wireless view
    • Industrial internet view
  • Hierarchical device tree
Configuration & Monitoring
  • Redundant cloud services
  • Scheduled system backup Automatic bulk software update Dedicated device dashboards Statistics & trending Email alerts Supporting concurrent device jobs X Configuration lock X
Security
  • Communication over SSL
  • No inbound internet access
  • Not-in-traffic path
  • Disaster recovery
  • Troubleshooting & Forensics
  • End to End view
  • Technical support dump export
  • Advanced troubleshooting X
    • Audit logs
    • Audit syslog & event syslog (OnPremises)
Support
  • 8x5 Support
  • Live link to Cambium Community
  • Cambium Care Pro – 24/7 technical support, accelerated access to L2 engineers X
Data & Reporting
  • Statistics reports exported in CSV
  • Export UI tables in CSV X
  • RESTful monitoring API X
  • Graphical reports X
  • Webhooks support X
Administration
  • Role-based access
  • RADIUS, TACACS+, LDAP, & AD login X
  • Session management X
  • User authentication (On-Premises) X
  • Open ID/SAML authentication X
  • High availability (1+1) for On-Premises X

Advanced Services

Assurance
  • AI-Based Advanced Analytics/Troubleshooting
  • Client connection lifecycle monitoring & analysis
  • oot cause analysis of connection & service failures
  • Network-wide client health monitoring & scoring

NOTE: Assurance is available for Wi-Fi 6 and above devices in cnMaestro X Cloud but not in cnMaestro X On-Premises

EasyPass
  • Wi-Fi Access Services
    • One-click
    • Sponsored guest X
    • Voucher
    • Paid X
      • Payment gateway
      • PayPal
      • IPPay
      • QuickPay
      • mPesa
    • WiFi4EU
    • Azure authentication X
    • Google authentication X
    • Self-registration: SMS & email X
    • Onboarding (ePSK cloud) X
    • Combined options
  • Max number of login events:
    • 2,000 event records for 30 days
    • Unlimited records for 30 days
  • Number of guest portals: 4
  • Number of guest portals: 500 X
  • Max number of guest client sessions at a time: 10,000 X
Application Visibility and Control Application visibility & control of 2,400+ different applications across Wi-Fi access network
MarketApps
  • Managed Wi-Fi
  • Self-Service Personal Wi-Fi
  • Installer
  • Senior Living
  • Outdoor Hospitality
Assists Assists for cnMatrix, Wi-Fi, cnPilot™-R, PMP, ePMP, cnWave 5G Fixed, & PTP 670/700 X

Device Family Features

Wi-Fi
  • Simplified wireless LAN view
  • Stateful firewall support
  • Dynamic channel listing based on country, release, & SKU
  • AP group & WLAN configuration
  • Site support for collocated APs
  • Simplified Wi-Fi Offloading (Passpoint, WayFi, XNET, Open roaming)
  • Rogue AP detection
  • Wi-Fi packet capture
  • Support for software-defined radios (SDR) on XV3-8, XE3-4, & XE5-8 Wi-Fi 6 APs
  • ePSK types:
    • ePSK Local – ePSKs are cached locally on the Wi-Fi APs
      • 2,000 per WLAN (Wi-Fi 6+)
      • 300 per WLAN (Wi-Fi 5)
    • ePSK RADIUS – ePSKs are limited via external radius server X
    • ePSK Cloud – ePSKs are unlimited & cloud managed (Wi-Fi 6+) X
  • WIDS support X
  • Personal Wi-Fi X
  • Monitor Wi-Fi performance from client or AP to cnMaestro (On-Premises) X
cnMatrix
  • Zero-touch remote provisioning
  • Policy-based automation (PBA) on EX and TX series switches.
  • Cambium Sync on TX series
  • DHCP client/server
  • Automated voice VLAN
  • QinQ X
  • Auto-device recovery X
  • Cable diagnostics X
  • MAC lists & location services for PBA X
Network Service Edge (NSE) NOTE: Security Plus (S+) is a subscription-based version of NSE
  • Auto VPN S+
  • Site-to-site VPN
  • Remote VPN
  • WAN flow preferences
  • DHCP/RADIUS/DNS services
  • Load balancing
  • WAN QoS
  • Firewall
  • LAN vulnerability assessment S+
  • Granular content filtering (DNS-based) S+
  • WAN failover policy & IP groups
  • High Availability S+
  • IoT device identification S+
Fixed Wireless
  • Claim PMP SMs associated with AP
  • cnMaestro Installer installation summary upload (PMP & ePMP) X
  • Mass provisioning for ePMP/PMP/cnWave™ 60 GHz (using LinkPlanner) X
  • ePMP/PMP link test
  • PMP/ePMP sector display
  • Spectrum analyzer PMP X
  • cnWave 60 GHz Interference Scan X
  • cnWave 60 GHz MAP features
    • Extensive Network Map RF Link visualization X
    • Auto-manage route
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