# How many running NSE's
**URL:** https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848
**Category:** Managed Service Providers
**Created:** [September 17, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848 "2026-09-17T17:41:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@ntox](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/ntox)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/1 "2026-09-17T17:41:02Z")
For those active on the forums, how many of you have deployed NSE’s replacing a different vendor and moving to Cambium solution? We were replacing MikroTik to Cambium NSE for select customers during hardware refresh cycles.
Like to know thoughts on other partners or end-users as they enter the forum seeking information. What are your input on NSE and concerns with next steps?
I am scared, we cannot afford [myself] the cost of replacement of customer firewalls at their locations.. We just installed another new one 2-weeks ago… thousands of dollars it’ll cost us and put us in debt to make this right for the customer if cnMaestro goes dark.
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### Author:  [@richard\_zuckerman](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/richard_zuckerman)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2026, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/2 "2026-09-17T18:39:40Z")
replaced sonicwall, ubiquiti
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### Author:  [@ntox](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/ntox)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/3 "2026-09-17T18:55:42Z")
I’m scrambling to come up with game plan. The devices should still “stay alive” running local config. But we will be in dark for remote management or config changes.
I might establish S2S VPN tunnels to each NSE customer while we can, as a means of ‘in-band’ access to console/ssh.
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### Author:  [@ntox](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/ntox)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/4 "2026-09-18T02:00:47Z")
I am dumbfounded by this.
The NSE devices also JUST received a new release 2.4-r1 at end of August…
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### Author:  [@Elevate](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/Elevate)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/5 "2026-09-18T02:11:02Z")
I’m an MSP as well and happy to help with a replacement option possibly cheap depending on the needs.
Just message me.
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### Author:  [@ntox](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/ntox)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 2:13am UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/6 "2026-09-18T02:13:30Z")
Thanks, we are also an MSP / IT provider. We might go back to MikroTik, have some sitting on shelf we can re-use. But have a few larger customers where we installed NSE 4000 due to port density.
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### Author:  [@IT\_MovilPort](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/IT_MovilPort)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/7 "2026-09-18T13:51:55Z")
Hello, If you need assistance migrating NSE or cnMaestro, please feel free to contact us.
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### Author:  [@ntox](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/ntox)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/8 "2026-09-18T14:05:03Z")
You’re privy to migrating NSE, there is no other remote management?
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### Author:  [@robert\_ener](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/robert_ener)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/9 "2026-09-18T18:58:36Z")
painful we have over 50 NSE’s deployed
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### Author:  [@ntox](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/ntox)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/10 "2026-09-18T21:02:05Z")
ugh, yikes - - feel for you. No one ever fathomed needing a contingency plan for this…
If anyone can think of an alt way to manage the NSE’s, let us know. Unsure if theres any API integration or other means?
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### Author:  [@Jamie\_Walmsley](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/Jamie_Walmsley)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/11 "2026-09-21T18:01:40Z")
not sure if this helps but i saw Simon Staddon (now formerly cambium) post this on linkedin a few days ago [GitHub - SiCambium/NSELocalSSH · GitHub](https://github.com/SiCambium/NSELocalSSH)
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### Author:  [@ntox](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/u/ntox)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t/how-many-running-nses/108848/12 "2026-09-21T18:16:35Z")
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
We’re currently In process of building WG client tunnels to each customer for an ad-how way of remote connectivity to prep for the remote device configurations. As it’ll end up being purely ssh and console based for config changes… sigh.
We’re hard pressed to lose thousands of dollars and eat cost to rip and replace. We have an NSE3000 that is only 3-weeks in production. And then others that are just shy of 1-year…..