Network complexity is growing as enterprises scale operations and integrate diverse devices. Manual configurations often lead to delays, errors, and inconsistent security enforcement. We will go through some of the challenges that we found to be common. Cambium Networks’ Policy-Based Automation (PBA) offers an innovative approach, automating key processes to enhance efficiency, improve security, and enable seamless scaling.
- Manual Device Onboarding Slows Productivity
Deploying and configuring new devices manually can create bottlenecks and inconsistencies. PBA automates this process, ensuring that devices are assigned to the correct VLANs and policies without manual intervention.
Solution: Zero-touch onboarding and automatic configuration ensure consistent application of network policies.
Key Benefits:
- Rapid device onboarding
- Elimination of configuration errors
- Faster time-to-productivity for new devices
- Security Gaps and Vulnerability Risks
Security breaches often stem from poorly enforced or inconsistent security configurations. PBA addresses this by automatically profiling devices as they connect and segmenting them based on role and access level.
Solution: Automated segmentation protects critical assets by isolating sensitive data and limiting access to necessary areas.
Key Benefits:
- Role-based access control
- Protection against unauthorized access
- Consistent policy enforcement across devices
- Network Growth Causes Reconfiguration Bottlenecks
Scaling network infrastructure often involves reconfiguring access points, switches, and security settings. This can introduce downtime and errors when done manually.
Solution: PBA ensures that as new devices are added, they are automatically configured based on pre-defined profiles, making network growth seamless.
Key Benefits:
- Effortless scaling with minimal IT intervention
- Consistent performance regardless of network size
- Minimal disruption during expansion
- Troubleshooting Delays Extend Network Downtime
Network troubleshooting can be time-consuming when configurations are scattered, and visibility is limited.
Solution: Integrated with Cambium’s cnMaestro platform, PBA enables centralized monitoring, automated alerts, and faster issue identification.
Key Benefits:
- Real-time performance insights
- Reduced mean time to repair (MTTR)
- Higher user satisfaction due to minimized disruptions
Why Enterprises Choose Cambium’s PBA
- Seamless Automation: Automatically enforce network policies, reducing manual workloads.
- Enhanced Security: Protect sensitive assets with automated segmentation and role-based access.
- Scalable Growth: Easily add new devices while maintaining network consistency.
- Centralized Control: Monitor and manage all devices through cnMaestro’s single interface.
Recent Software Release: Unlocking New Capabilities
With the most recent software release for Cambium’s cnMatrix switches, enterprises can benefit from enhanced network automation, performance and scalability. Updates to Cambium’s PBA add time-of-day controls and new actions including DHCP snooping trust and STP portfast. This release also adds PIM-SM multicast routing for more efficient handling of video traffic and improves scaling for large networks, including 200 VLAN support for out-of-the-box Auto VLAN configuration 32K MAC address support for network aggregation.
By simplifying complex network management tasks, Cambium Networks’ Policy-Based PBA delivers tangible benefits: reduced costs, higher operational efficiency, and the ability to scale without complexity. To experience PBA firsthand, explore our guided demo, which showcases its features and functionalities in a real-world scenario.