Ubiquiti UniFi Switches Scalability

Vincent Willoughby - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at CSR digital

It is a very scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

In my company, five people use the solution.

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SW
IT Resource Coordinator at SmartBank

Ubiquiti UniFi Switches' scalability for layer two switches is as good as Cisco or HP switches.

I rate Ubiquiti UniFi Switches a seven out of ten for scalability.

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John Balogh - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT at a religious institution with 11-50 employees

It's scalable. I wouldn't want to scale it up to 500 nodes per site. You probably need a bigger management system than what they have. There's a tune toward maybe 100 to 200 devices, and you can use search terms and write custom scripts to pull out particular variables that you want. If I want to have a plot of the number of access points with high re-transmission rates over the last month, that doesn't come by default out of the box. I had to write a script for that, but it was pretty easy. It's normal IT stuff. Every case is different.

For the companies that have 5-10 physical sites and 50-200 networking devices – not user devices – this is fine. I would say under 1,000 or 2,000 user devices but under 500 or 200 network devices. This is the sort of sweet spot for that, and it worked out really well for us. We looked at other options, and we just decided to go with this because it was working so well on a couple of our sites.

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SM
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

The scalability is there. For example, if the company has five warehouses across the country and I want to deploy long-range access points, across the different warehouses, I can have them delivered, installed, and boom, I'm done. We just do that and it's great. If I want to manage them, I add them all to my portal. I can update them all in one shot. I can apply the security, I can do WPA and if I'm doing WPA2, I can change it to Radius. There are so many features there and it's easy to manage. If I want to replicate the installation, it's really easy. I just copy. The site's easy to build and it takes 10 minutes. It's much easier than Aruba, which has more steps.

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DP
Consultant at Lifeline IT

The product is scalable, but it can be a difficult task since there is a requirement to always bring in new stuff in the solution.

My company deals with a lot of clients who use the product.

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DB
Security engineer at ARCEP Togo

The solution is scalable. 

We have about 100 users on the solution, and we have 400 devices. 

We will increase usage if employees increase.

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Lutz Kirchner - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO / CIO at German Top Secure Data Processing GmbH

The solution’s scalability is good.

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Director_45785 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Innate technology

The solution is scalable so scalability is rated an eight out of ten.

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PT
Owner at Gallops Investments

Ubiquiti UniFi Switches are scalable.

It performs all of its stated functions exactly as promised.

There may have been as many as 20 at one time. While it's not a lot, we use a lot of it. 

We consume a lot of bandwidth ourselves and upload a lot of streaming and other content while working here. 

At any given moment, we may have up to 10 of our own appliances running. It isn't a lot, but we need stability, the assurance that it won't fail us, and that it is reliable.

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John Yeoman - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Promennt

The solution is very scalable. Our user numbers range from 10 to hundreds, depending on the number of trainees we have at any one time. 

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Mark  Anderson - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

I have the solution in the church I belong to, and it runs great for daily operations. On the weekends and for special events, we have a lot of people there accessing the network and we've never had any problems. It seems to scale and work just fine.

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TW
CEO at CITOM

Ubiquiti UniFi has been scalable enough for our use cases. The throughput is ok. We have used it in cases with a gigabit backbone and it worked fine.

We have deployments with only five users and we have deployments with up to 500 users.

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Gilbert Mwiinga - PeerSpot reviewer
Baobab College logo System Administrator at Baobab College

The scalability of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is good. If I buy a new device, I only have to plug it in, it adopts and runs from then on.

We have approximately 600 users connected to the Ubiquiti UniFi Switches. I'm taking into account everyone who connects to the WiFi.

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PK
Group IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

It's a scalable solution but the limit on the number of 10 gig ports was an issue.

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Milena Yordanova - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Aquatec

It's impossible to expand the network with old versions of devices. I manage around 30 devices.

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SimonWalker - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Redeemer Baptist School

Ubiquiti UniFi Switches are scalable. We have around 600 users at the school we deployed the switches at. 

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RG
owner at zResource

It's a switch. You buy it based on how many ports you require. This one has 24 ports, and if I wanted to expand it, I would have to get a different model with more ports. 

There are two SFP ports available for inserting and connecting to a different type of driver.

I'm not using them right now because I don't need them, but they are there in case I do.

We are a consulting firm. We do remote support for various customers. It's basically the in-house network that connects all of my workstations to each other and also gives us all access to the internet.

It's pretty stable right now. We don't have any immediate expansion plans. We hope to in the future, but for now, it's doing everything we need it to.

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PM
IT Manager at Pride in Azure

I rate Ubiquiti UniFi Switches' scalability a nine out of ten. 

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MS
Consultant and technical support at joudeh center for computer and modern software

The product has good scalability.

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SM
CAD Engineer at Pro av

Around 50 customers are using Ubiquiti UniFi Switches.

I rate Ubiquiti UniFi Switches ten out of ten for scalability.

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DI
Senior solutions architect at Aplix Technologies

Having a range of customers with moderate needs, I'm not sure I can comment on the scalability.

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AC
Network and CyberSecurity Engineer at Nextro

Scalability is probably possible, but it is not common to scale these. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches are more suitable if you don't need to create a really big, scalable solution at an enterprise level, and you have two or three switches with a firewall. For a big company, in terms of scalability, Cisco or F5 switches work better than Ubiquiti switches. If you have a good budget, Cisco or F5 would be better.

If you would like to scale Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, you probably can. They are probably not difficult to scale. It depends on your skills. I have not scaled them before.

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AS
CEO at Cybertek

UniFi Switches are scalable - you can extend your network easily since some switches have the fiber optic option, and you can extend your number of ports, making connections between fiber ports.

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MA
Director of Technical Operations/CTO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We have about 60 plus switches deployed right now. We have four active sites and a fifth site is coming online. I'd say probably closer to 100 switches. We've got all sizes. I tried to standardize recently on eight ports and that's a whole different conversation, however, we use them in horticulture areas.

This solution is built more for small to medium-sized businesses. The bigger the network gets, the more instability. You have to be there going through the enterprise with the edge line. 

That said, it's very scalable. I have seen no blocks. You can build this as big as you want it. And we've done everything from basic switches to large point to point and a point to multi-point. So we pushed the envelope as much as we can.

However, then you get cases like switch age where it's way over the edge of the network, and then you see problems every day, that device old, but even before it got old, it seems like it had this issue.

We have clients that have hundreds of employees on the system, so there are probably users in the low hundreds at any given point of time. We also have about 80 cameras which make up endpoints as well. Most of the people using it are data entry (sales, administration, and procurement) and a few accountants. That said, it's all network-centric. Our security systems and our surveillance systems are all on the network. It's a busy place. We've got a fiber backbone between our main greenhouse and our administrative headquarters.

We do plan to expand. The site that we're bringing online is between 600,000 and 700,000 square feet of greenhouse with a 20,000 square foot building that will have processing, offices, and IT in it. It will double our capacity as far as production. We're going to grow big in 2021.

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PC
IT Administrator at a outsourcing company with 1-10 employees

The product is scalable. There are no issues if a company needs to expand it.

We have 30 people using Ubiquiti Switches in our organization.

We do plan to continue to use them.

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ESTEE Gabriel Carpio - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at TechConek Philippines Inc.

We use the tool on a day-to-day basis. I rate its scalability a nine out of ten. 

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Paul Robbertze - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Manager at It Outsourced

UniFi switches' scalability features are useful.

Finding a device by IP address is very helpful for troubleshooting. The Spanning Tree Protocol is a definite step above managed switches.

I work with small and medium-sized business customers.

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MS
Manager at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

I have not scaled since the initial setup but it seems to be fine. I think that includes what you need to scale it.

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YS
Responsable IT at a individual & family service with 201-500 employees

We have 10 sites that use these switches. In my site, we have 20 users but they are not all connected via Wi-Fi. Some are instead connected using an ethernet cable.

In some sites, they have between 20 and 30 staff, and maybe 50% or 60% of them use Wi-Fi. Most of our devices are Android tablets. Also, some of the clients connect to the Wi-Fi as well.

It works well for small companies with open space. However, it is not viable for businesses with 500 or more people.

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FS
System Engineer at DANAT IT FOR BUSINESS

The solution is scalable.

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EA
Head of ICT Unit with 11-50 employees

The Ubiquiti switches are my access switches. I use Cisco for my edge and I wanted to see if I can have some copying prototypes to so that I wouldn't have problems in the design. I'm yet to do that, if I can have a common configuration that's compatible with the Cisco switches for the core and for the distribution and then Ubiquity for the access. But I can't comment much on it yet.

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TP
IT Director at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

The solution is scalable. If you are comparing it with some other brands in terms of scalability, I would say it performs the same.

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NM
Consultant

It seems to me that there are problems with the performance of my current gateway. I currently have a 500-megabit symmetrical link and I think that I'm at the limit of what it can handle.

We have fifteen users and we don't plan on increasing usage at the moment.

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CS
Network System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I have not tried stacking these switches, so I cannot say. It seems to me that it should be fine if you are going to make trunks between the switches, but I haven't done this yet.

I have performed fourteen installations, and some of our customers have approximately one hundred and fifty users.

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IR
Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have about 100 users, but we have approximately 10 switches. They are connected to a video recorder and a lot of video cameras.

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TX
IT at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Scalability is good. We have approximately 40 users.

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it_user741327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Administrator with 11-50 employees

We haven't had any problems with scalability. There are more or less eight people using this solution. 

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Buyer's Guide
Ubiquiti UniFi Switches
March 2024
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