Kindly keep this section updated regarding NSE roadmap / development and product hardware improvements. We want more transparency as we start deploying the NSE appliances to customers.
Feature requests:
Where is IPV6
Will Cambium release a virtual appliance device for Azure [Similar to Meraki vMX]?
Cambium provided DDNS [That way it will auto-apply DDNS address to WAN interfaces]
Cambium Auto-VPN to remote Cambium NSE’s [Site to site VPN] MESH VPN, etc.
Rack mount kit?
What about other NSE appliances that have more than 900Mbps total throughput… We have customers with 1Gbe fiber connections.
What about Layer3 routing protocols [OSPF, BGP, etc]. Or will there be a line in the sand for what market vertical Cambium is looking to fill. We can use other hardware vendors for that.
Will Cambium develop their own Cambium VPN client software? Compete with Cisco AnyConnect, Palo GlobalProtect, Sonicwall… Yes, there is “WireGuard”; but still not as good as a dedicated SSL VPN client.
IF Cambium taking NSE seriously - love to see the effort and transparency. Given the hardware costs, plus subscriptions.
If the Cambium VPN software is licensed based - that is fine. Most customers would easily pay for it to not use L2TP or Wireguard.
Auto VPN will be available in Q1. We also expect to announce a rack mount kit for the NSE 3000 in the next few months.
We do have appliances with higher throughput in development and we plan to add IPv6 and dynamic routing, but the timeline for these is beyond the typical 6 month public roadmap that we announce.
As there are many free / low cost DNS service providers (I myself use Cloudflare - great availability and they charge only the registrar fees for a domain) that let you use DDNS with a custom domain, we do not provide a Cambium hosted DDNS service and instead support many of these third party services, but are open to reconsidering this based on customer feedback.
I’ve noted your input on SSL VPN and the virtual appliance. We periodically reevaluate our roadmap and feedback like this is very helpful in reprioritizing items and adding them to the roadmap.
Thank you for the detailed comments. If you’d like to further discuss your SD-WAN / security requirements on a call please send me direct message.
It would be a great value add for Cambium to provide, again – for the “X” subscription? Why “X” name – should be cnMaestro “Complete” - just weird for us as we make the transition. When its provided as value add or included feature, it is one less product stack we have to manage for ourselves and customers.
Hopefully Cambium puts thoughts into their own VPN software client, it will be welcomed.
James_Mifsud
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A virtual appliance would be amazing, plus a NSE 4000 or NSE 5000 would be a great addition.
I vote for this. Cambium will need to continue developing and release more features. Virtual appliance and their own VPN appliance if they really want to be competitive.
Virtual appliance for Azure to take advantage of future Auto VPN.
People have been asking for IPv6 support since more than a year and I was interviewed by Cambium colleagues more than 6 months ago and it’s still not even on the public roadmap?
The NSE is sitting around gathering dust for quite a while now and IPv6 has been a mandatory RFC requirement for more than a decade already.
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James_Mifsud
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Hello @TrevorM any news on the NSE 3000 Rackmount kit?
We’ll announce release dates for new NSE hardware (NSE 4000 and NSE 5000) over the next few months. New software releases are approximately once a quarter, with bug fix releases in between when necessary. The last software version was 1.7.3. The next one will be release 1.8 early next quarter.
You can run a scheduled update by going to the device’s Software Update page and selecting the ‘Schedule’ radio button
