Hi @gregpalmer2  It's coming together with the support of C9800-CL and WiFi 7 APs. I think it should be in the summer release or soon after. Regards ... View more

The CW9800 hardware is capable of operating in cloud and on-prem mode. However, the ability to migrate between modes is not available at this time. ... View more

Agree. The Cloud Monitoring of C9800 is a first step to Cloud Management adoption. It's Monitoring, not Management, so the customer is still in charge for the full management (for example software upgrades and most importantly troubleshooting). The next step in Cloud adoption is to go Campus Gateway which is a cloud native solution, completely managed from Cloud. ... View more

And you don't have to adopt it if you don't need to 😀. We want to give customers choices independently of their IT operation model, on-prem or cloud managed.  Campus Gateway allow you to scale across a large roaming domain like the one you would have in a University campus, in a Hospital or Manufacturing plant, across thousands of APs. And Campus Gateway is not a WLC, it does not manage the APs, it only centralize some functions (traffic aggregation, Radius proxy, mobility database) when required. Both APs and Campus Gateway are managed directly via Dashboard. ... View more

We do have lots of customers are thinking to move to a cloud managed solution for whatever reason. Before Campus Gateway, we didn't have a solution that would scale to the requirements of a large campus deployment. Now we do. Campus Gateway fils in a product gap offering a centrlized, overlay solution for lage campus. ... View more