Sovereign by Design: Architecting Cloud-Managed Wi-Fi Infrastructure Across Jurisdictions | PRG 26

Cloud-managed WLAN infrastructure means your APs, telemetry, and control plane may live somewhere you don't control — a vendor's multi-tenant cloud, possibly across borders. That has real architectural consequences: data residency requirements, latency/failover behavior when sovereignty rules force regional control-plane separation, API access boundaries, and how telemetry pipelines get partitioned across jurisdictions.

This talk breaks down the infrastructure-level tradeoffs of NaaS and cloud-first Wi-Fi: where processing actually happens, how to architect for regional failover and compliance simultaneously, and how to evaluate vendor claims (SOC2, ISO 27001, EU residency) against real technical implementation rather than marketing.