Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other
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What is the general consensus for EdgeSwitch VS the Ubiquiti Switches VS other switches such as a HP Procurve or Dell.
I use Edge Routers and have had zero problems, and am now looking at trying out one of their switches. Needs to have PoE capability. Small office, 10 people.
The EdgeSwitch seems great LINK
But there is also the Unifi line as well. LINKThen of course there are the other big players such as HP and Dell, but dollar for dollar, I bet the Ubiquiti stuff works just fine at a fraction of the cost.
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What PoE you need matters. Are you powering general things, or Ubiquiti devices?
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I have used the EdgeSwitches and really like them, replacing my Cisco switches with those as I need to upgrade/replace. Haven't had a chance to use the unifi switches yet. Its on my list to purchase to try out when I find some extra money (haha).
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@scottalanmiller said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
What PoE you need matters. Are you powering general things, or Ubiquiti devices?
Phones, drawings 9W max per line. The phones are 802.3af class 3.
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We use one of the EdgeSwich units in the lab, it is great for that use case. Looking at a Unifi for the Texas office.
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One selling point of the Unifi series is the built in Unifi controller for the WIFI units.
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Personally I stay away from the UniFi stuff.
I do not want mysterious magic on my networks.
The UniFi line brings in the "all or nothing" mentality that a lot of other vendors have.
I get why people like it but it also comes at a higher cost.If UBNT would update their UniFi controller to accept SNMP or something from the Edge line to populate the screen instead of only working with UniFi, that would be awesome.
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@fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
One selling point of the Unifi series is the built in Unifi controller for the WIFI units.
No, that is the UniFi Security Gateway (aka router) not the UniFi switch line.
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@JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
@fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
One selling point of the Unifi series is the built in Unifi controller for the WIFI units.
No, that is the UniFi Security Gateway (aka router) not the UniFi switch line.
Oh right, my bad.
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@JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
Personally I stay away from the UniFi stuff.
I do not want mysterious magic on my networks.
The UniFi line brings in the "all or nothing" mentality that a lot of other vendors have.
I get why people like it but it also comes at a higher cost.If UBNT would update their UniFi controller to accept SNMP or something from the Edge line to populate the screen instead of only working with UniFi, that would be awesome.
I've heard that concern before regarding the Unifi line of products. (the mysterious magic) It makes me nervous as well.
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@fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
@JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
Personally I stay away from the UniFi stuff.
I do not want mysterious magic on my networks.
The UniFi line brings in the "all or nothing" mentality that a lot of other vendors have.
I get why people like it but it also comes at a higher cost.If UBNT would update their UniFi controller to accept SNMP or something from the Edge line to populate the screen instead of only working with UniFi, that would be awesome.
I've heard that concern before regarding the Unifi line of products. (the mysterious magic) It makes me nervous as well.
I should not argue with it and just use it. as it would in theory make life easier down the road for the smaller clients.
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This switch looks great for my needs. about 8-10 VoIP phones.. https://store.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgeswitch-24-250w.html
But then again, so does this one, for the same price https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifiswitch-24-250w.html
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@JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
@fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
One selling point of the Unifi series is the built in Unifi controller for the WIFI units.
No, that is the UniFi Security Gateway (aka router) not the UniFi switch line.
The USG has the Unifi Controller built in? It didn't in the install I did this summer. I had to install the software on a server, just like everywhere else I have the UniFi APs.
The Unifi Switch does integerate with the Unifi Controller though, allowing you to get statistics about LAN based items just like you get from WiFi clients from the Unifi APs.
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@fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
This switch looks great for my needs. about 8-10 VoIP phones.. https://store.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgeswitch-24-250w.html
But then again, so does this one, for the same price https://store.ubnt.com/unifi/unifiswitch-24-250w.html
A difference (though one your probably don't care about) mentioned in the blurbs is that the Edge Switch has Layer 3 routing, the UniFi Switch doesn't say - it may or may not have it.
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@Dashrender said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
@JaredBusch said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
@fuznutz04 said in Edge switches VS Ubiquiti switches VS other:
One selling point of the Unifi series is the built in Unifi controller for the WIFI units.
No, that is the UniFi Security Gateway (aka router) not the UniFi switch line.
The USG has the Unifi Controller built in? It didn't in the install I did this summer. I had to install the software on a server, just like everywhere else I have the UniFi APs.
That was my mistake. You are correct. I thought the USG had it, but I see it does not. Makes it even less useful.
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For a super simple no VPNs network, the USG works great, pretty straight forward and has some nice pictograms in the Controller.
The issue I ran into was a VPN tunnel between two endpoints that both had static IPs. This just didn't work. A few people have posted their work arounds on my UBNT thread about putting the IP into the JSON config file and not using the GUI to enter the static IPs and have it work.
