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Good and bad, what has been your experience? Please elaborate!

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I’ve put two of the 500w Edge switches in a local vet office with no issues.

I’ve used two of the smaller “home” switches to do POE for friends that have multiple access points in their houses…no issues there either.

The one “gotcha” that I ran into is that you can’t use the Unifi software to control Edge switches; you need to stick with the Unifi line to manage those. Had I known that, it would have been much easier to deploy and change VLANs.

I’ve not needed to contact support for anything, so I can’t speak to that side of the business.

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I’ve been running them for about a year, after a couple of years running their APs. I’ve got a mix of PoE and nonpowered 24 port switches, with a handful of VLANs configured. The PoE switches feed our phones, the APs, and security cameras (also UBNT). I originally had them in a cascading topology, but later added a 16XG and interconnected everything to that via SFP.

They have solid for me so far. If you’re already running a UniFi controller for APs, you’ll like having one place for management. UniFi has quirks and frustrations, of course, but I find those to be greatly outweighed by the benefits.

I like their stuff well enough that when I was sick of my old home Linksys box requiring reboots, I replaced it with a USG, a small UBNT switch, and in-wall APs and spun up a UniFi instance on GCP to manage it.

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I like them alot. Never really really worked with them, but have set up a few before, with minimal issues.

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I’ve been running an XG and several 48-500’s for a few years. I’ve been very happy with them, they’ve worked well, and were an affordable way to get 10GbE links as well as PoE everywhere. At home I have a USG, 60w switch, and an AP, working well there too.

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Same issue with Carl - good switches, wish I didn’t have a mix of EdgeSwitches and UniFi.

@cholzhauer

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I wouldn’t call $600 cheap, but the only other options only have 4 ports or 8 ports.

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I have both Ubiquiti EdgeMax and Ubiquiti Unifi switches in various client environments.

The old interface on the EdgeMax switches were too complicated and had two or three ways to do the same thing, and the client’s previous IT company had double-configured some of the options, which made for some interesting quirks. I ended up factory-resetting them and set them up using the same method on all their switches. Later I upgraded the firmware to the EdgeSwitch line, and I’ve been very happy with their simplicity and reliability.

The Unifi switches are centrally controlled, but not as powerful as the EdgeMax. After I learned where to set up port profiles, they are pretty simple to maintain as well.

They are both good products from my experience and I would recommend either of them.

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They work great! I’m using the UniFi line for smaller locations as I like to use the unifi.ubnt.com for management.

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I’ve had 1 Unifi switch running for awhile now in an office that grew too many devices for the number of ports available. It’s not exactly being worked hard, but I’ve had zero issues with it. It’s just worked, so I’m pleased with it.

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With UNMS, you can do some pretty decent centralized management of assets and firmware updates. They’ve been adding new features as things move along, Netflow is a thing now.

I’ve had 24-port/48-port PoE switches in production for a couple of years now, after having used the EdgeRouters for several years more than that. Just bought another couple of 750W switches for a new satellite office, they are great value for money.

The UniFi controlled switches and routers are similar to their Edge series brethren, but less configurable. I have a full UniFi stack at home, and it’s great at small scale, but I don’t know what it would look like in a bigger environment. I like UniFi a lot for AP control, though, so if that is familiar you might want to follow that path.

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Similar story to others, started rolling out Unifi APs a few years ago, then tried a couple of Unifi switches. Now, if I had the option and it was a ‘money no object’ world, for all of the customers we support, particularly the small and medium customers, I would pull out all of their various/miscellaneous switches and put the Unifi switches in place. Some exceptions to that would be customers running Cisco or some HP/Aruba (assuming configured correctly).

Having the switches managed through the controller is excellent. Get the port profiles setup, then it’s a few clicks in the controller to change the profile assigned to a port. The App on iOS is brilliant too, port config change in the palm of your hand. If a switch has any issues, again the controller is going to report the issues.

Quick example… Had a customer phone up and say they had plugged in a new phone from their VOIP provider, and it wasn’t working properly. I asked for the wall port identifier. From there, I checked their documentation, confirming the switch port that the patch panel port should be connected to, logged in to the controller, straight to the switch, straight to the port and sure enough, I could see the phone was connected (think they had a Polycom handset, and it was clearly displayed as ‘Polycom’), showed it was powered up through PoE, but it clearly wasn’t on the voice VLAN (wrong port profile). I made the change, the phone got a correct IP and worked perfectly. Literally from the App, to a Cloud hosted controller.

For larger environments, I might be tempted to put in EdgeSwitch devices at the core, and then use Unifi Switches for distribution switches, but I would consider that if it was a ‘build from scratch’ type of installation and of significant size.

One other slightly related note. In the Unifi range, there is the USG devices. You haven’t asked about the USG devices as such, but for completeness, just some thoughts. I’ve had very limited use of USGs in honesty, but, having installed a few EdgeRouters, I would struggle to favour USG over EdgeRouter. EdgeRouter isn’t managed through the Unifi controller, but I don’t see that as an issue. Also, UNMS (Monitoring tool, it’s gradually getting there) does give you some monitoring of EdgeRouter, so there is an option there. EdgeRouters are great devices and our ‘go to’ choice for site to site VPNs.

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We have all Ubiquiti switches-24 and 48 port. The management console has gotten better recently. Kind of had to get the hang of them. Support is horrible, but as long as you don’t need support, they are pretty good.

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For 1 full year now with Unifi line in ~250 users enviroment + couple of remote locations with unifi also. About 20 switches, 2 usg gateways (usg pro-4 in remote locations and usg xg8 in main branch), 30 ap:s, indoors and outdoors.

Nothing bad to say, only with vpn site-to-site configs have been hard to learn when you have customize controller settings or override some like nat-d defaults or remote id or local id settings in some cases.

Also done couple of smaller client sites with unifi and it couldn’t be easier, also price is very nice when you look what you get.

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I use them and love them. I’ve currently got 40 of them, all PoE in various port counts, running across two states. No problems at all. I also have about the same number of Unifi APs running in the same places. Management is great, without the constant out-of-pocket that Ci$co requires. The management controller software is free, the cloud-based interface is free, updates are free for the life of the devices. Devices are rock-solid and I haven’t had any real problems with them in the 5-ish years I’ve been using them. Like anything else, I’d recommend delaying upgrades by 30 days, as there have occasionally been minor issues when new versions roll out.

@Ubiquiti_Inc

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What a crazy question to put on this forum. So many people post positive stuff about them here.

I’ve got about 9 switches in use, love them, can’t wait to replace the rest with Ubiquiti. I’ve also found support to be good.

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We have about 30 odd /+ Ubiquiti edgepoint switches deployed all over our network and to be honest what a decent piece of hardware, they are stable and reliable, never had any failure based on design or hardware faults, the only odd one’s that have failed was due to lightning damage but that doesn’t count :wink:

Other than that they are really good work horses. Easy to setup and deploy.

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Yes we have a couple aswell. And as anybody says they are great and they are very easy and fst to set up. Especially if you already have youre controler then is super fast and easy!

Also their support i great they normally respond whitin 2 days.

So big thumps up from here!

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We are running a 24 port and a 12 port POE network with 25 AP,s. All runs well apart from some issues with iPhone connectivity. https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/iPhone-connectivity-issues/td-p/1992189

Good reliable network otherwise.

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Yes - we’re running Unifi stuff for our visitor network and a few Edgeswitches in our corporate backbone.

The only issue I’ve had thus far is our EdgeSwitch 16 XG didn’t come back up after a firmware upgrade. Factory reset, re-apply firmware and it was OK.

I’m not keen on the lack of a second power supply, but the one issue above aside, all good.