Today, it seems that everyone has shifted into survival mode, with very little focus on looking ahead or discussing how to move forward.
At the same time, there appears to be a tendency to point fingers at the manufacturer, even though many of us agree that we have been working with the right products, a strong development team, a capable technical team, and experienced management at the operational level.
This raises an important question, which I believe should also be addressed to the remaining members of the Cambium team:
What can we, as partners, resellers, distributors, and customers, do from our side to support Cambium and help stabilize and further develop the business — for example in the ePMP side?
Rather than focusing only on what went wrong, perhaps we should also look at what can realistically be done from our side to protect the existing ePMP business, maintain customer confidence, and create a path for further development.
I believe there is still valuable experience, technical knowledge, customer relationships, and market potential within the existing ecosystem. The question is how we can collectively use these resources to support the business and determine what practical steps can be taken from our side.
Completely agree, we have absolutely appreciated the ePMP team and we love the product, so much in fact we have spent a lot of money on ePMP equipment and went exclusively with Cambium ePMP for our deployments. If this lineup can avoid being terminated our contribution will be continued investment in this product as we have for the last 6yrs.
ePMP team is still here, 100% capacity. We are working on finding a path forward as you have seen from the UK administrators message. Just give us a little more time. At that point, we will need your help to continue selling, deploying and developing products and push for the best solution from a price performance perspective. The ePMP team specifically appreciates all the customers around the world and we are truly hoping we come out of this stronger, better and even more customer focused. Thanks Sakid
We plan to stay with ePMP like the band on the Titanic because the alternatives just don’t cut it. The new 4K line has been a game changer for us.. Obviously we want Cambium to continue developing the 4500/4600 line and once the company is “stable” work on the next best thing, perhaps some type of MLO and NLOS product that doesn’t require a 2nd mortgage to put up an AP . I know a lot of people have been searching for a Tarana alternatives for NLOS option but there just isn’t anthing out there. I have high hopes that like a phonix Cambium will rise from the ashes!
Pretty much all we can do at this point is wait and see how things play out. I’m getting the impression from Sakid’s posts that there is some kind of deal/plan in the works - hopefully that works out and we can continue business as usual.
This is a DRAFT document I am working on that comes directly from my documentable history with Cambium Networks, though the same problems exist with many others. It has an ISP in CA focus, but perhaps may be helpful for others.
Statement of Infrastructure Sovereignty and Subscriber Privacy
Our network completely avoids proprietary, closed-loop cloud management platforms like cnMaestro due to their ambiguous, unverified data collection practices. For an independent Internet Service Provider, routing infrastructure operations through centralized, vendor-controlled clouds introduces severe compliance risks. These risks are heavily compounded by multi-state jurisdictional conflicts and complex international insolvency maneuvers, which frequently treat compiled network telemetry and subscriber metadata as liquid corporate assets to be transferred or sold without operator consent.
To maintain total data sovereignty and uphold California’s historic, bi-partisan mandate for consumer privacy, our network relies strictly on standalone hardware configurations managed via open, standards-based protocols (like localized SNMP/MIB architectures) and custom-coded monitoring software. If our company pursues public broadband expansion grants, allocating funding toward the development and coding of an independent, local network management system is fully justified and necessary. This independent engineering ensures that California subscriber data remains locked within local boundaries, remains fully under the root custody of the network operator, and is completely shielded from unauthorized downstream vendor exploitation.
Your post is all about not using cnM and being vendor agnostic. Appears like it is written for applying for state grants and why you should be selected as an operator to receive government funding. It seems like your post is completely irrelevant to this particular thread.
I disagree. Regardless, if you have examples of things you think are relevant as opposed to asserting what I wrote is not, sharing one or more examples would be a way to bring attention to things you believe are better examples of a different route you have taken and even could still take.
Yeah we hope epmp products survive!!! I’m trying and crying so hard to find a neat replacement solution. Unfortunately nothign comes close to the flexibility or close to a one stop shop!! Just working trough my on prem migration and I’ve had a team working on this. So far we’ve moved something like 8000 devices in our on Prem. which includes all our spare stock we need to service our customers so please don’t go!!!
Adding to all that’s been suggested, Likely the most fruitful thing that could happen is to join together thru a common orginization and buy ePMP as a group. That or befriend a wealthy investor or investment firm to buy the ePMP product line. The last notice I saw from the administration mentioned that once the transition to Airspan is complete, the remains of the company will be sold off to make make a dent in the debt. Unless Cambium can can some up with some angel investor to right the ship, the not already acquired product lines will probably end up with the lowest bidder.
Some of us here may have been around long enough to remember the birth of Cambium from Motorola’s bankruptcy. I don’t know if this is going to happen or not but it is certainly possible that large share holders / owners of Cambium will “purchase” the remaining parts of the company for “pennies” on the dollar to get out of the debt that is crushing the company. Keep in mind that at this point the “Core” epmp team and engineering are still part of Cambium, why maintain that cost?
There is still a chance that Cambium’s core is still here after it is all said and done. It might be called something different, like when Motorola Canopy became Cambium.
I don’t disagree with you there. I “fondly” remember the Tsunami and Canopy radios from some of my earlier years. We’ll see how this all plays out. 20 years in, I’ve still got at least another 10-15 to watch the show
Back in the 2000s, the backbone of our network was Terabeam (Karlnet turbocell). That worked and was inferior to everything else. Then Canopy, then ePMP.
ePMP is a different galaxy compared to Ubiquiti and Mikrotik (as far as I could compare) and it will be very inconvenient if it shuts down.
We started with MikroTik and then moved to Mimosa as we grew. We were told by another WISP not to touch Ubiquiti - he’d been that route. We would have used Cambium at the time that we started using Mimosa, but couldn’t afford it.
Cambium is absolutely the best product that we’ve used. If I had the money, I’d buy up the ePMP line in a heartbeat.
Well, if that doesn’t get a guy right in the feelings 