Launching Friday 25 SeptemberCloudWLC by Optaro
CloudWLC is the new home for Cambium-based networks. Keep every access point you own, add new ones whenever you need to, and never think about a licence server or a server room again. Built and run by the hospitality Wi-Fi specialists at Optaro. UniFi estates are welcome too.
Reserved accounts open in order from 9:00 on Friday 25 September. The portal opens for new registrations on Monday 28 September.
NorthstarcnMaestro
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LakesideUniFi
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HarbourUniFi
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Why CloudWLC
Keep the access points you already own and move their management to a controller that is yours: hosted, secured and operated by the network assurance specialists at Optaro.
Hosted controllers
We provision the server, configure the controller, issue trusted HTTPS and keep it running. You get an address and a login.
Guided migration
By hand, moving 1,000 access points normally takes days. Our guided migration collects your existing settings in one pass and prepares the new controller. No files to export, no re-keying.
Multiple sites
A controller manages many sites. Add further controllers for regions or clients, all on one dashboard.
Controlled changeover
See exactly what is ready and which devices are included. Nothing moves until you choose Switch to CloudWLC.
Platforms
A wireless LAN controller should not tie you to a server room or to one vendor’s cloud. CloudWLC is where your controllers live, whoever made the access points on your ceilings.
We host the cnMaestro On-Premises software edition in our cloud. “On-Premises” is Cambium's name for the edition; it does not mean a server in your building. Sign up, deploy, and move your estate across from Cambium Cloud.
A dedicated UniFi Network controller in our cloud, in place of a Cloud Key, a console on site or a server you look after yourself. Every site and every client in one controller, reachable from anywhere at its own secure address.
Plenty of estates are not one vendor, and plenty of controllers are still sitting on a server somebody has to look after. Tell us what you run, how many access points and where, and we’ll talk through how CloudWLC fits your estate.
OpenWLC · Control launches on Friday 25 September
OpenWLC is Optaro's own controller. It manages access points and switches over SSH, the interface your hardware already has, so it needs nothing from any vendor's cloud, licence server or agent. Cambium access points come first, when OpenWLC Control launches on Friday 25 September. Ruckus is in build now, and enterprise switches and access points follow: one system for the whole site, even when the kit is mixed.
What lock-in actually costs you
Cambium's own guidance says that if its cloud licensing service, the Cloud Anchor, goes away, cnMaestro On-Premises keeps running but “you will not be able to add or delete any devices.” That is true of any cnMaestro server, wherever it is hosted, including ours. It is the clearest example of a pattern every vendor shares: your network works for as long as somebody else's cloud, licence and balance sheet allow it. A failed access point you cannot replace is a network with an expiry date.
Working today
On real Cambium hardware, OpenWLC already discovers an access point, takes over its management, registers it, reads its configuration, delivers changes and has them acknowledged, confirms the change on the device itself, and holds on to the access point through a reboot. No cnMaestro, no Anchor account and no Cambium login involved. Ruckus access points are being brought through the same steps now.
Reserve your place and tell us what you run. The estates people tell us about set the order we add vendors in.
Get your estate onto a hosted cnMaestro controller while Cambium's cloud is still running and migration is straightforward. Nothing changes on site.
From launch, move the same access points across from the same CloudWLC account. No hardware changes, no licence server, no deadline set by someone else.
Add and replace access points freely, and bring the other vendors and the switches under the same controller as each one lands.
Three phases · control launches on friday 25 september · one price
Take control: one complete site, running through our own control plane.
Sites, AP adoption, WLANs, VLANs, manual channel and power, and verified configuration
20 capabilities · see the detail ↓Manage the estate: what hospitality networks need day to day.
RADIUS and ePSK, roaming, client visibility, Auto RF, power policies, alarms and backups
24 capabilities · see the detail ↓Optimise the venue: a hospitality-focused alternative, not only a replacement controller.
Optaro Assure, RF Survey, venue optimisation, automation and reporting
21 capabilities · see the detail ↓The intelligence layer
CloudWLC applies and verifies controller configuration. Assure brings the independent RF, roaming, client and service-path evidence that explains what the network is doing and whether a change actually helped.
Real, anonymised views from the Optaro Assure Wireless RF Audit
Executive diagnosis
Assure turns radio, roaming and service-path evidence into a customer-facing conclusion, with the evidence boundary and last observation shown alongside it.
Live RF operations
The live view follows client, radio and roaming evidence without a page refresh, so teams can see degradation and recovery rather than relying on a static controller snapshot.
Observe
Controller, radio, client, switch and service-path evidence in one model.
Understand
Separate RF faults from authentication, DHCP, DNS, VLAN, power and WAN failures.
Verify
Compare the experience before and after a controlled change, with rollback evidence.
Assure exists today. Its closed-loop CloudWLC integration arrives through the Optimise phase.
How it works
Four stages take you from sign-up to a fully managed estate. The portal guides each one, and you see what will happen before it does.
Sign up, pick your controller type, name your server and choose a plan. CloudWLC builds the rest and tells you when it is ready.
Illustrative example
The portal guides you through linking what you run today to your new controller, with the CloudWLC browser extension doing the collecting where your platform supports it.
Your supported configuration arrives in your CloudWLC workspace. We import it into the new controller and verify the result.
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Select the access points, confirm the new controller address and choose Switch to CloudWLC. Progress appears as devices check in.
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New controller address
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What you need to start
The CloudWLC extension
Migration runs through a Chrome extension in your own browser. You sign in to your existing cloud controller exactly as you do today; the extension collects supported configuration from that session and sends it straight to your CloudWLC workspace.
Keep the browser open and signed in while collection and the switch are running — the connected session is part of the workflow.
Accounts, controllers and sites
Your account owns one or more dedicated controllers, UniFi Network or cnMaestro, in any mix. Each controller manages many sites — a hotel group does not need a server per property — and MSPs can keep client estates apart inside a controller or give a client one of their own.
Northstar · UK properties
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Meridian · European properties
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UniFi NetworkSites
Clients · An MSP's client estates
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UniFi NetworkClient sites
Each client is its own site, with its own administrators
Account
One sign-in for your organisation. See every controller, its address, status and subscription, and add another in a few clicks.
Controllers
Each is a dedicated server for you, running UniFi Network or cnMaestro — never shared with unrelated customers. Add more for regions, scale, maintenance schedules or isolation.
Sites & client estates
Organise properties and branches as sites. MSPs keep clients apart within a controller: as sites on UniFi, or with Managed Accounts on cnMaestro where the entitlement allows.
Security and hosting
Controllers are hosted in the European Union today, in Germany and Finland, with UK, USA and Asia-Pacific regions coming shortly.
Hosting regions
Data centre certifications
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · Hetzner
Hetzner's information security management system is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, covering the infrastructure and operation of its Nuremberg, Falkenstein and Helsinki data centre parks.
BSI C5 · Type 2 · Hetzner
Hetzner's cloud services hold a BSI C5 Type 2 attestation, the German Federal Office for Information Security's criteria catalogue for cloud security.
These certifications are held by Hetzner, our infrastructure provider, and cover the data centres and cloud platform your controller runs on. View Hetzner’s certificates
Every controller is a dedicated server for one customer. Unrelated customers never share a controller.
Each controller gets its own address with a trusted certificate, issued and renewed for you.
Migration runs through your own signed-in browser session. We never ask for that password.
Controller backups are taken for you and kept for 7 to 90 days, depending on your plan.
We manage controller software updates, so security fixes are not waiting on someone's spare afternoon.
Controller health is monitored by the people who build Optaro Assure.
Solutions
Whether you look after one group of hotels or a portfolio of client estates, the proposition is the same: keep the hardware, keep control, lose the server.
Run guest and back-of-house Wi-Fi for every property from one controller, on the hardware you already own.
Organise client estates across one or several controllers, and make migration a repeatable job rather than a project.
Manage every branch centrally from one hosted controller, without adding infrastructure to maintain.
From the network assurance specialists
CloudWLC is built and operated by Optaro. We have deployed more than 10,000 access points for major hospitality venues around the world, and we build the platforms that monitor and assure those networks every day. Hosting your controller is the same discipline, applied to the part of the network you would rather not run yourself.
Network assurance
Monitoring across Wi-Fi, switches, endpoints and security. A clearer cause when service degrades, a targeted response, and a way to check recovery.
Explore AssureOptaro Assure
Radio, client, access point and service-path evidence for your wireless network. A useful baseline before you move a controller, and proof afterwards.
About RF auditsHotel Wi-Fi
Cloud-managed HA gateways, branded guest portals and a private network per room. The guest's side of a hospitality network.
Explore ConnectPricing
Each plan is a dedicated hosted controller with a device allowance. Cambium and UniFi have their own plans; pick one when you deploy, and change it as your estate grows.
A dedicated hosted cnMaestro controller, with the guided migration from Cambium Cloud included.
Single sites and small estates
One hosted cnMaestro controller for a single property or a small group of sites.
Included devices:up to 50
Hotel groups and multi-site businesses
A larger allowance for hotel groups and growing multi-site estates.
Included devices:up to 200
MSPs, installers and large estates
For MSPs and installers running several client estates and controllers.
Included devices:up to 600
VolumeCambium · over 600 devices · self-service
More devices than the largest plan? Price it here. One subscription covers the whole estate, spread across as many dedicated controllers as it needs, with the per-device rate falling as you grow.
€1,410per month
€0.28 per device per month · 2 dedicated controllers included
Prices in EUR, excluding VAT. Two months free with annual billing. Have a budget in mind? There’s a box for it on the next step.
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Clear guides for Cambium and UniFi estates, written by the people who run hospitality networks.
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Read the articleFAQ
The questions hotel operators, IT teams and installers ask before they move a network.
Ask us something elseCloudWLC is a fully managed hosting and migration service for wireless LAN controllers — the “WLC” in the name. We host and operate your controller for you, deploy it automatically, and give you a guided way to move an existing estate onto it.
For UniFi networks, that is a dedicated UniFi Network controller. For Cambium-based networks, it is the cnMaestro On-Premises software edition, running in our cloud. “On-Premises” is Cambium's name for the self-hosted edition of the controller. It does not mean anything is installed at your premises.
CloudWLC is a home for wireless LAN controllers rather than a single-vendor product. Cambium and UniFi estates are self-service: create an account, choose your controller — cnMaestro for Cambium, UniFi Network for UniFi — and deploy it. Cambium estates also get the guided migration from Cambium Cloud described on this site; UniFi sites come across using UniFi's own backup and site migration, with step-by-step guidance.
If you run Aruba or Ruckus, or a mix of vendors, tell us about your estate and we will talk through how CloudWLC fits it.
CloudWLC is built and operated by Optaro, the network assurance specialists. Optaro has deployed 10,000+ access points deployed for major hospitality venues around the world, and builds Optaro Assure (network monitoring and wireless RF audits) and Optaro Connect (hotel Wi-Fi and guest access). The same team hosts and supports your controller.
No. Your controller runs on infrastructure that CloudWLC provisions, secures with trusted HTTPS and operates. You reach it at your own address, such as northstar.cloudwlc.com. There is no hardware to buy, no virtual machine to build and no operating system to maintain.
Controllers are hosted in the European Union today, in Germany and Finland, with UK, USA and Asia-Pacific regions coming shortly. Every controller is a dedicated server for one customer, reached over trusted HTTPS, backed up automatically, kept up to date and monitored by Optaro.
Your controller runs in Hetzner data centres. Hetzner's information security management system is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, covering the infrastructure and operation of its Nuremberg, Falkenstein and Helsinki data centre parks. Hetzner's cloud services hold a BSI C5 Type 2 attestation, the German Federal Office for Information Security's criteria catalogue for cloud security. These certifications are held by Hetzner, our infrastructure provider, and cover the data centres and cloud platform your controller runs on.
Yes. Your compatible access points stay installed exactly where they are. Migration changes which controller manages them; it does not replace them.
No. A controller manages multiple sites, so a hotel group or a business with many branches normally runs on a single controller with each property set up as a site.
Yes. One CloudWLC account can own several controller servers — UniFi Network, cnMaestro or a mix — each with its own name, address and subscription, all visible on one dashboard. Additional controllers are useful for geographic separation, scale, different maintenance schedules or stronger isolation between estates.
Yes. Within one controller you can keep each client's estate separate: on UniFi each client is its own site with its own administrators, and on cnMaestro Managed Accounts do the same job, subject to the applicable cnMaestro software entitlement. Where you want harder separation — by client, region or maintenance window — you can run additional controllers under the same CloudWLC account.
Your controller is dedicated to you. Unrelated CloudWLC customers do not share a controller.
The CloudWLC portal walks you through installing the extension and pairing it with the controller you are migrating to. You then sign in to your existing cloud controller as you normally would, in your own browser — the extension-driven migration is built for estates moving from Cambium Cloud. The extension collects supported configuration and estate information from that session and sends it straight to your CloudWLC workspace, so there are no files to download and re-upload.
No. Sign-in stays between you and your current provider, in your own browser. CloudWLC never asks for that password, and the extension works through the session you have already opened.
Before you switch, the portal shows you the access points you selected and the address of your new controller. When you choose Switch to CloudWLC, the connected extension uses your own signed-in session to apply the supported management setting that points those access points at your new controller. The portal then reports progress as each device checks in, and flags any device that needs a closer look.
Nothing is switched until you start it, and you choose which devices are included.
Yes. The extension works through your own signed-in browser session, so keep that browser open and signed in while collection and the switch are running. The portal shows whether the extension is connected and what has completed, so you can see where things stand.
CloudWLC migrates the core of a Wi-Fi estate: supported WLANs, AP groups, devices and their related configuration. A hosted controller and a vendor's cloud service are different editions of the software, so some cloud features, device models and firmware versions behave differently or are not carried over.
You do not have to guess. After collection, the portal shows what has been prepared and lists anything that needs your attention before a single device is switched. If you rely on a specific feature, talk to us and we will check it against your estate.
Switching changes the controller that manages your access points, so treat it as a planned change. Access points reconnect to their new controller as part of the move, and behaviour can vary by model and firmware.
CloudWLC is designed to keep that change controlled: the destination is fully prepared and verified first, you choose which devices move and when, and you can start with a single site or a small group before moving the rest. We recommend switching during a quiet period for your business.
No. CloudWLC is an independent service from Optaro. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by Cambium Networks, or by any other equipment vendor named on this site. Cambium Networks, cnMaestro, Aruba, RUCKUS and UniFi are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here only to describe compatibility.
Cambium’s Sep 2026 guidance is that cnMaestro Cloud is expected to keep running at least through October 2026, while Enterprise device support is time-bound rather than indefinite. Plan to move to cnMaestro On-Premises while Cloud is still up. CloudWLC hosts that On-Premises edition for you and includes guided collection from your Cambium Cloud tab. Switch stays under your control. We’re independent of Cambium/RSM.
No. We host Cambium’s self-hosted (“On-Premises”) software edition — not Cambium’s public cloud. You get a dedicated controller address; some cloud-only features may not carry over. The portal shows what’s prepared before you switch.
Yes. That’s the product: we provision and operate the hosted controller; you use the guided migration workflow (Chrome extension on your signed-in Cambium session). No hard sell — review readiness first.
Reserved accounts open in order from 9:00 on Friday 25 September. The portal opens for new registrations on Monday 28 September. Reserve your place and we will open your account in that order. Your access points stay exactly where they are.
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