Around 200 Bengaluru Staff Reportedly Affected as Cambium Networks Shuts Its India Centre

Cambium Networks has shut its India Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Bengaluru, with around 200 employees impacted as part of a sweeping global restructuring, sources told Moneycontrol. The centre was a key engineering and R&D hub for the company, working on fixed wireless broadband and enterprise networking technologies. On September 11, 2026, the parent company cut 260 employees globally, or 53.6% of its total global workforce, and its UK company, the main trading entity of the Cambium Group, is in administration. For Metaintro readers in Bengaluru, the practical questions are what the law gives a laid-off worker, which parts of the Cambium business moved to a new owner, and where wireless and cloud engineers can look next. This guide works through those questions using the company's own filings and the text of India's labour codes.

What Happened at Cambium's Bengaluru Centre?

The Bengaluru GCC has served as a major R&D and engineering base for Cambium Networks, working on wireless communication infrastructure, fixed wireless broadband and enterprise networking technologies. The centre supported product development and other global operations for the group.

The closure figure of around 200 employees comes from sources, not from a company statement. Cambium did not respond to queries seeking details on the workforce reduction and the closure of its Bengaluru GCC. Neither the India centre nor a Bengaluru headcount appears in Cambium's September 14 filing.

On pay, salary and gratuity, wherever applicable, will be paid, but no severance has been paid so far and there are no indications that the company plans to make such a payment, sources told Moneycontrol. Separately, for the 260 employees cut worldwide on September 11, no severance payments were offered or made.

What Does Cambium's SEC Filing Say About the Global Job Cuts?

On September 11, 2026, Cambium reduced its workforce by 260 employees globally, effective immediately, in a step disclosed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At the time of that filing, the company was unable to determine estimates of amounts expected to be incurred in connection with these restructuring actions.

The 260 figure in the filing is a global total with no country breakdown, so whether the Bengaluru staff are part of it is not known. The cuts reached senior leadership, as the employment of Vibhu Vivek, Senior Vice President, Products, was terminated as his role was eliminated.

On September 11, 2026, the Company reduced its workforce by 260 employees globally, or 53.6% of the Company’s total global workforce, effective immediately, according to Cambium's September 14 SEC filing.

On September 14, 2026, the directors of Cambium Networks, Ltd filed a notice of appointment of administrators in the High Court in England and Wales. Four administrators from RSM UK Restructuring Advisory LLP were appointed, and the company anticipates that all of the remaining entities part of the CNL group will be wound up in locally administered processes.

Why Did Cambium Run Into Trouble Before the Closure?

Cambium missed four straight quarterly filing deadlines in 2025, and Nasdaq moved to delist its ordinary shares, with trading suspended on Nasdaq since March 27, 2026. The company also fired KPMG as its accounting firm April 5, 2024 and later moved from Grant Thornton, KPMG's replacement, to BDO.

It lost $12.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026. In a May 2026 10-K filing, Cambium warned of substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.

Rival Tarana launched a fast product in 2021 that could cut signals through trees. Channel Dive's analysis traces Cambium's financial troubles to a mix of competitive pressures, federal funding change and accounting issues.

Who Bought Cambium's Products, and Did Any India Staff Move With Them?

On September 22, 2026, part of the business found a buyer when Cambium Networks Ltd, in administration, sold the defense business and certain fixed broadband product lines to Airspan Communications Limited, for a base price of $27.5 million in cash plus a contingent amount.

The product lines that moved include the PMP 450 platform, PTP 670, PTP 700, cnWave and cnReach, along with the management and planning software for that portfolio, including LINKPlanner, cnHeat, and cnMaestro as it relates to the referenced products.

More than 135 Cambium employees joined Airspan in the deal, including sales and support resources in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa, as well as R&D teams in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. Where in India those R&D teams work, and whether any were at the Bengaluru centre, is not given, so an affected engineer should not assume a transfer offer is coming.

More than 135 Cambium employees have joined Airspan as part of the transaction, according to the Airspan deal announcement.

Cambium does not expect any sale proceeds to reach unsecured creditors of CNL or shareholders. It does not expect to retain any of the net proceeds of the Sale, and it expects remaining proceeds to repay amounts owed under its credit facility with Bank of America. Shareholders were warned to expect a complete loss of their investment.

What Happens to Cambium's cnMaestro Cloud Software?

Moneycontrol's article adds that the Bengaluru shutdown effectively dismantles the core hub responsible for developing the Cambium ONE Network architecture and maintaining critical cnMaestro cloud management software, threatening service disruptions for over 10,000 network operators managing 4 million active wireless nodes worldwide.

The sale covers cnMaestro as it relates to the referenced products, while CNL kept the cnMaestro software as retained intellectual property and granted Airspan a license to certain retained intellectual property, including the cnMaestro software.

Cambium is extending support of cnMaestro Cloud through at least October 2026, including support of the entire enterprise product portfolio. The aim is to find an acquiror for CN Maestro to ensure long-term access or, alternatively, allow the ability to transition from a cloud environment to an on-premises implementation deployment. The administrators are actively progressing several potential going-concern transactions for the remaining business units.

What Does India's Labour Law Say a Laid-Off Worker Is Owed?

India's four labour codes, including the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 and the Code on Social Security, 2020, have been effective from 21st November 2025. The retrenchment rules now sit in the Industrial Relations Code.

Under that Code, no worker employed in any industry who has been in continuous service for not less than one year under an employer shall be retrenched by that employer until three conditions are met:

• The worker has been given one month’s notice in writing indicating the reasons for retrenchment and the notice period has expired, or has been paid wages for the period of the notice in lieu of it.
• The worker has been paid, at the time of retrenchment, compensation equivalent to fifteen days' average pay, or average pay of such days as may be notified by the appropriate Government, for every completed year of continuous service or any part thereof in excess of six months.
• Notice in such manner as may be prescribed is served on the appropriate Government or such authority as may be specified by the appropriate Government by notification.

When an establishment is closed down for any reason whatsoever, every worker with continuous service for not less than one year in that undertaking immediately before such closure is entitled to notice and compensation as if retrenched. Compensation is capped at average pay for three months only where closure is due to unavoidable circumstances beyond the control of the employer, and closure caused merely by financial difficulties (including financial losses) does not count as unavoidable.

There is an important limit on who counts. Anyone employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity is outside the Code's definition of a worker, and so is anyone employed in a supervisory capacity drawing wages exceeding eighteen thousand rupees per month or an amount as may be notified by the Central Government from time to time. A person employed in any industry to do any manual, unskilled, skilled, technical, operational, clerical or supervisory work for hire or reward is a worker unless an exclusion applies, such as the two above.

Where any other law, standing order, award or contract gives a worker benefits in respect of any matter which are more favourable to him than the Code, the worker keeps those more favourable benefits.

How Is Gratuity Worked Out, and Who Qualifies?

Gratuity is payable on termination, as well as on retirement, resignation, death or disablement due to accident or disease, the expiry of a fixed-term contract, and any other event notified by the Central Government. It has applied under the Code w.e.f. 21st Nov, 2025.

The amount is 15 days’ wages per year (or such number as notified by Central Government) based on the rate of wages last drawn, for every completed year of service or part of a year in excess of six months. The maximum gratuity is as notified by the Central Government which is currently ₹ 20 lakhs. Nothing affects the right of an employee to receive better gratuity terms under any award, agreement or contract with the employer.

Completion of five years of continuous service is not necessary in case of death, disablement, expiry of fixed-term employment, or other events notified by the Central Government. Fixed-term employees become eligible for gratuity after one year of continuous service.

Moneycontrol's sources describe gratuity at Cambium as payable wherever applicable. Termination is not on the labour ministry's list of cases where completion of five years of continuous service is not necessary.

Where Can Bengaluru Wireless and Cloud Engineers Look Next?

India hosts 2117 GCCs operating across 3,728 units and employing around 2.36 million professionals as of FY26, in the July 2026 GCC landscape study from Nasscom and Zinnov. GCC hiring will continue to be resilient and at moderate pace, the Nasscom and Zinnov study finds, with organisations prioritising redeployment and AI-led productivity over linear headcount growth.

Other GCCs have cut jobs this year too, as PayPal cut around 600 jobs, Visa recently reduced around 1,500 roles, and ServiceNow and several smaller GCCs have also fired more than 100 employees.

Airspan bought several fixed wireless product lines from Cambium. On Airspan's current careers page, India appears as a location filter and on the general Interest in Future Openings form, while the one listed vacancy, a UVM SystemVerilog Verification Engineer role, is based in Warren, New Jersey, Plano, TX or remote U.S. Airspan has offices in the USA, UK, India, Colombia, Poland, Japan, and Israel, and people who do not see a fitting opening can send a resume and a description of their desired role for future openings.

Be careful with anyone who contacts you about Airspan roles. Airspan does not request payment during recruitment, and official communication is only via @airspan.com addresses.

What This Means for Job Seekers, and What Should You Do Next?

Our take is that affected Bengaluru staff should act on their statutory rights quickly, and then put their wireless and networking experience to work in a GCC market where hiring will continue to be resilient and at moderate pace, the Nasscom and Zinnov study finds. The parent company expects CNL and its affiliates will wind down all remaining operations, and that the Company itself will thereafter be dissolved, so staff should settle their dues early. Airspan has also taken on R&D teams in India along with the fixed wireless product lines, so this kind of work has not disappeared entirely.

Here is what we would do:

• Get your dues in writing. Ask for a written statement of notice pay, gratuity and any compensation, and compare it with the notice and compensation rules in the Industrial Relations Code.
• Check your gratuity maths. Count your completed years and any part year over six months, and apply the 15 days’ wages formula based on the rate of wages last drawn.
• Know whether you are a worker under the Code. Staff employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity fall outside the definition of a worker, and so do supervisors above the wage threshold in the Code's definition of a worker, which changes what the retrenchment rules give you.
• Name your product work. When you write the work experience section of your resume, name the platforms you built or tested, such as the PMP 450 platform or cnWave, if you worked on them.
• Plan the search. Before applying widely, set out a short plan, such as a structured AI job search plan after a layoff.

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People Also Asked

Q: How many jobs did Cambium Networks cut in Bengaluru?

A: Cambium shut its Bengaluru GCC with around 200 employees impacted, a figure from sources rather than the company, which did not respond to queries.

Q: Do laid-off Cambium staff in India get severance?

A: No severance has been paid so far and there are no indications that the company plans to make such a payment, according to sources, though salary and gratuity are to be paid wherever applicable.

Q: What compensation does India's law require when an office closes?

A: A worker with at least one year of continuous service in that undertaking immediately before closure is entitled to notice and compensation as if the worker had been retrenched, which is fifteen days' average pay, or such days as the appropriate Government may notify, for every completed year of continuous service or part year over six months. That compensation is capped at three months' average pay only where closure is due to unavoidable circumstances beyond the control of the employer, and closure merely because of financial difficulties (including financial losses) does not count as unavoidable.

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