One of the most frequent questions asked by our customer is how much is the cost to use cnMaestro. It is completely free or customer need to pay?
Here is my answer:
CnMaestro has a full set of features targeted to simplify management of Cambium devices. Today we support both cnMaestro Cloud and cnMaestro Premises. We are in progress to add a premium feature packages in future on top of exsiting function/features on cnMaestro, which we will call it "cnMaestro Pro". cnMaestro Pro will be a paid version once it is available. To distinguish, i will call the cnMaestro we have today "cnMaestro Basic".
To put more device under management, a $2,500 (list price) perpetual license is required to unlock the limitation for number of device under management. Which also include 12 month software maitaince support. The restriction of numer of managed device is not enforced yet in current software, but will be enforced in Q1 2017 new release.
Software maintain program also is available in 1, 2 or 3 year term
For "cnMaestro Pro", we will share more details in future.
To put more device under management, a $2,500 (list price) perpetual license is required to unlock
That seems backwards, why is the cloud service which uses Cambium's bandwidth and hardware free while the on premises version that doesn't use any cambium resources to run charges $2,500 if we have more than 2,000 customers in it ?
Because, they know the small businesses that don't have enough money to stand up and maintain their own management infrastructure and use the online version, wont have enough money to pay cambium. But the bigger companies who need more security and cant rely on cambiums cloud services (or have private networks with no internet access), those companies/government have more capital so they can charge them.......
Based on the release notes for cnMaestro 3.0.0 this information is inaccurate. Additional “pro features” have been tied into cnMaestro X which has been enforced for cloud but has not been for on prem. I am curious if anyone has purchased cnMaestro X and what the cost model is?
But to answer your question , little shy of $1 per month per device.
Pretty much, after you pay for all the various solutions Cambium offers you are actually working for them because they are making more money off your customers than you are…