A gateway (1), arranged for providing cloud connectivity to a network of communicatively interconnected network nodes. The gateway (1) comprises a backend function (2)and a plurality of physical frontend devices (3), for deployment in the network. The frontend devices (3) communicatively connect(4)to the backend function (2) for exchanging messages between a network node and the backend function (2). The backend function (2) is common to the plurality of frontend devices (3) and arranged in a at least one server of a plurality of operatively connected servers, that may form part of the cloud, thereby providing for ‘cloud processing’ or ‘virtual processing’ of the messages for exchange thereof with the cloud. The physical frontend devices (3) may be designed to comprise transceiver functionality.