Unsolved Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line
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@dagors said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
These brands have switch and Poe switch, Ruijie also has a router.
https://www.ruijienetworks.com/
https://planet.com.tw/
could be a good alternativeLiterally don't know either. Anyone used them?
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BTW... Ubiquiti just reported they are cancelling that whole line..... and cancelling open PO's I have for customers of mine going back over a year and a half........sigh.............
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@Yonah-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
BTW... Ubiquiti just reported they are cancelling that whole line..... and cancelling open PO's I have for customers of mine going back over a year and a half........sigh.............
Not going to say that I am surprised. Do you have a public link available?
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@JaredBusch not yet. I will forward to you if I get one.
this came through the distribution channel to me. -
@Yonah-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
@JaredBusch not yet. I will forward to you if I get one.
this came through the distribution channel to me.I assume that the UISP line is continuing? I was already assuming that it was going to replace the EdgeMAX line.
The only problem I have with the UISP line is that the hardware is all 27V POE only.
That line might have other issues, but I have not bought any yet.
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@JaredBusch so far that I see yes.... but Ubiquiti has made a ton of promises this past year and failed. I dont know how they will survive now that they literally have to say "thanks but no thanks" to literally millions of open PO's that they accepted over the past year and a half. That is NO exaggerations. I am not a stockmarket expert.. but at 350 a share right now..... wouldnt this failure make people sell like mad? No wonder it isnt being crowed around the world publically now.
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@Yonah-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
BTW... Ubiquiti just reported they are cancelling that whole line..... and cancelling open PO's I have for customers of mine going back over a year and a half........sigh.............
Didn't the guy that was the engineer behind the edgerouter OS quit two years ago or something, and all major development work more or less stopped after that?
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@Pete-S first time I am hearing that . Interesting.
I mean - they make a great product but their customer and channel support service has always been non-existent. That model can only work for so long. -
@Yonah-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
@Pete-S first time I am hearing that . Interesting.
I mean - they make a great product but their customer and channel support service has always been non-existent. That model can only work for so long.It's common to see in companies that are not actually the real designers behind their products.
They buy an already designed product from an ODM manufacturer (Original Design Manufacturer). The buyer can make minor customizations to the product and have it labeled however they want but it's the manufacturer's design and intellectual property.
A tell tale sign is when models doesn't have a unified look through out the product line. It's because the products are designed and manufactured by different companies.
Anyway, the company can only make a half assed attempt to support it because it's not designed in-house. After a while they'll find another product from another ODM manufacturer and go with that instead. So no continuity.
I don't know if that is the case with Ubiquiti but some products in their line sure looks like it.
Looking at the number of employees working at Ubiquiti versus their revenue, also suggests that (most?) of their products are not designed in-house. That's just speculation of course.
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@Yonah-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
BTW... Ubiquiti just reported they are cancelling that whole line..... and cancelling open PO's I have for customers of mine going back over a year and a half........sigh.............
What the heck? That's a huge amount of infrastructure!
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@Pete-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
I don't know if that is the case with Ubiquiti but some products in their line sure looks like it.
Looking at the number of employees working at Ubiquiti versus their revenue, also suggests that (most?) of their products are not designed in-house. That's just speculation of course.Well the Edge line, and this is me guessing, is likely third party hardware that they buy (that's pretty easy) and they basically use an open source OS barely modified. They were half public about that when they started, so it kinda made sense with that line. No idea if they continued that with Unifi and others.
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@scottalanmiller said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
@Pete-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:
I don't know if that is the case with Ubiquiti but some products in their line sure looks like it.
Looking at the number of employees working at Ubiquiti versus their revenue, also suggests that (most?) of their products are not designed in-house. That's just speculation of course.Well the Edge line, and this is me guessing, is likely third party hardware that they buy (that's pretty easy) and they basically use an open source OS barely modified. They were half public about that when they started, so it kinda made sense with that line. No idea if they continued that with Unifi and others.
Well, they started with RF-based products so they have that expertise in-house.
It would make sense that their wifi products are developed by themselves and manufactured by OEMs while the rest are ODM products.
That's the quickest way to expand the product range. Otherwise you need a ton of employees. From the info online they're only about 1000 employees worldwide.
