Ubiquiti UniFi Switches Valuable Features

Murali Sunkara - PeerSpot reviewer
Investor at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

For the world where you have to balance traffic and traffic loads and bandwidth, their GUI makes it really easy because the switches, though they are enterprise grade level two or level three switches, the GUI is designed so that it's easy to set up VLANs where you need to control your traffic so that your phones don't break up and get choppy because of other people loading the network down too heavily. Telephony is pretty tricky to get right on a heavily loaded network.

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Vincent Willoughby - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at CSR digital

The most valuable features of the solution include its ease of setting up VLANs and port management.

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SW
IT Resource Coordinator at SmartBank

Ubiquiti UniFi Switches typically stay up and running when they're up and running. The most valuable feature of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is that once you buy them, you own them. This feature is valuable, especially for smaller businesses or companies looking to save money. You don't need to pay a monthly fee to Cisco, HP, Aruba, or any other vendors. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches are really easy to do firmware updates.

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Ubiquiti UniFi Switches
March 2024
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John Balogh - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT at a religious institution with 11-50 employees

We have one or two UniFi switches, but they don't really compete with the Ciscos. It's a nice environment as far as keeping track of things and being able to manage ports, turn off rogue users, and stuff like that. The access points have been pretty convenient compared to Meraki, Lucent, Cisco, or any of the other bigger vendors that I used to deal with for other consulting projects.

Ubiquiti is one step above the consumer level. They cost a little bit more, but they just seem to be drop-dead reliable, and they're keeping up with the latest standards. Their latest versions of access points are all Wi-Fi 6, and they don't take very much power when there aren't a lot of users.

It's really easy to build one configuration and just apply it to new devices.

It's a check mark box: Do I want this to be the staff VLAN, or the public VLAN, or the Voice over IP VLAN, or the security VLAN, or the house wiring VLAN, or the building logistics VLAN? You just check things off and then you make groups, so if you click on it, it applies all the appropriate things automatically. It makes it very easy.

This solution is good for the prosumer, small office, medium office, under 500 people range, but probably over 50 people and maybe distributed around five or 10 sites. That's a pretty good sweet spot as far as the price for the equipment and the configurability, and it's just drop-dead reliable. It's been boring, which is what I love because I don't get any calls in the middle of the night that something isn't working.

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SM
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

The value here with using the Ubiquiti products across the board is that they're almost all single-pane management and the single-pane management is included. It's a huge benefit. If you go with other brands and you have to pay extra or pay an annual fee to use it, there's a huge cost difference between let's say a Meraki Solution, which I would say for an enterprise is much better. If I have 20 sites and I'm doing hundreds of access points, I'm going to go to Meraki as already I have a budget. This is a bigger enterprise. 

This solution, however, is tailor-made to a small and medium business that may have three or four locations and you can manage it from a single point. I can either contract with a company that manages my portal for $10 a month. Or I can do it at Amazon or Google Compute, et cetera, or just in a cloud scenario. It's a really flexible solution and it's very cost-effective.

It's possible to scale the product.

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DP
Consultant at Lifeline IT

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a reliable product.

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DB
Security engineer at ARCEP Togo

The devices are cheaper than Cisco. That's why we adopted them.

It offers very good control. 

It is easy to set up.

The solution is stable.

It can scale well. 

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

The entire management console of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is beautifully designed, offering an intuitive interface for efficiently managing multiple locations and entities. With a single point of configuration, this system seamlessly extends its settings to all connected Ubiquiti devices. Furthermore, its unified interface seamlessly integrates additional features such as video surveillance, CCTV, and other functionalities within the environment.

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Director_45785 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Innate technology

The solution is very reliable and stable.

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PT
Owner at Gallops Investments

It was recommended to me by an IT professional, so I went with it. He said, "It's a bit pricey, but it won't let you down." And it didn't, it's been working.

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John Yeoman - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Promennt

The information on the graphical interface is great and I like the ability to access it from anywhere. It's fairly easy to set up, use the product, and adapt it to Ubiquiti. 

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

The Ubiquiti network management stuff is really great. You can go to Cisco and other places to get it, but you'll pay a lot of money for that stuff and in a lot of cases, you don't need all that overhead. Ubiquiti's network management and the way you can manage many different devices on a network are really nice. You can manage the devices and get a lot of good statistics regarding traffic and who's doing what, so it's good.

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TW
CEO at CITOM

These switches are very simple to use and the GUI is very nice. They have made administration much easier. Optionally, if you have a very advanced requirement then you can do it less comfortably using the GUI, or instead use SSH to program it. If you have experience in Linux and bash scripting then it is very easy to do.

The most valuable feature is that the technology is open. If there's a new technology then you can implement it yourself. For example, WireGuard is a very nice VLAN framework that is available on Linux and you can implement it on the Ubiquiti switches. With Cisco or other commercial products, you'll have to wait until the manufacturer starts to provide it for you. Sometimes, they need quite a long time before this will happen. It is for this same reason that we don't use macOS or Windows because they are always about five years behind current technologies.

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

The most valuable feature of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is the graphic user interface for monitoring, where you can see the status of the device in real-time. I use those features across the campus. I use the APs as my beacons to tell me whether the area of the school of the network is down or not. Those will be the first to alert me that there is a problem with the network or a device. They provide me with more than only monitoring themselves,  I use them in order to monitor all the devices.

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

The ability to manage firmware revisions is probably the most valuable feature. 

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Milena Yordanova - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Aquatec

I can see which ports are connected and which ones are disconnected. This information is very useful.

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RG
owner at zResource

Because it's a managed switch, I have the ability to set controls and configure traffic priorities, VLAN ports, etc.

It doesn't really have anything that sets it apart from any other professional grade switch. It essentially does what they all do.

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PM
IT Manager at Pride in Azure

The tool's most valuable feature is port security, which allows blocking/disabling ports. The ports also have PoE capability. 

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

The product’s most valuable features are stability and scalability.

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SM
CAD Engineer at Pro av

Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is a stable solution.

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DI
Senior solutions architect at Aplix Technologies

The integration with the controller is one of the most valuable features of these switches. They are also very stable. For example, we have some equipment that we haven't touched for four years that is still reliable.

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AC
Network and CyberSecurity Engineer at Nextro

Ubiquiti UniFi Switches are stable and support Layer 3. They come with a user-friendly interface. If you're not familiar with the command-line interface or you wouldn't like to configure it by using the command line, they have a user-friendly interface that you can use. They also have good documentation about how to use these switches.

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AS
CEO at Cybertek

UniFi Switches' best feature is the ability to switch voltage from 24 to 48, and it's almost the only device on the market with this feature.

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

The ability to deploy quickly and then having one central location for all the settings are its most valuable aspects.

They've been very aggressive as far as their feature sets as their capability.

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EJ
Technician at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees

The product is seamless and robust. We only had issues when there were power outages. The user interface is the most valuable feature. The tool is easy to use. I rate the ease of use an eight out of ten.

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

The solution is very good for expanding our LAN.

The product has proven itself to be stable.

The scalability is very good.

The installation itself is very easy.

I haven't found the cost of the solution to be too high.

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Paul Robbertze - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Manager at It Outsourced

We like the centralized management of the switches. We like the fact that we can do all the management remotely on the cloud, without having to do a VPN into the client's infrastructure.

And, we found that the best solution for our typical clients, who are small to medium-sized, typically don't need the more expensive Aruba or Forti Switches, and those switches are just overkill for their environment. 

So, we find that UniFi is a happy medium between consumer-type switches and enterprise switches.

UniFi switches improved our client's network management for multiple devices.

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

It's been working fine, it's been stable, and there are no interruptions. It's been there doing its job and has not required any work to keep alive, so that's been positive.

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

This product is very reasonably priced.

I have not found any of the technical features to be particularly valuable.

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FS
System Engineer at DANAT IT FOR BUSINESS

The solution's most valuable feature is its reliability.

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BA
Owner at ThinkEzIT

I like the price point of this solution and it's very simple to use with a straightforward setup. 

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EA
Head of ICT Unit with 11-50 employees

I like the control one has with this solution; you manage everything from one central point. Everything including the devices and the switches. So the centralized management is one thing that I really like about Ubiquiti.

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

The interface and the duality are the solution's most valuable features.

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RS
Director, Corporate Services at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

The two most valuable features are the remote access user and the side-to-side connection.

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NM
Consultant

The most valuable feature for us is the VPN.

This solution is easy to use. 

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SP
Managing Member at Pender & Associates

Overall the solution functions very well.

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

The most valuable feature is that you can manage everything through the Cloud Key UniFi controller.

The fact that you can manage everything including the switch-level configuration, and access point configuration of both the wireless networks and the LAN, is very useful.

The GUI interface is very easy to use and the Linux-based command-line interface is also good. I am happy with the interface.

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

The performance is good. They also have good prices and have a lot of functions in their software.

The idea used in Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is very powerful and interesting. It's also new in this market.

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TX
IT at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

The user interface makes it simple to configure and manage.

The access speeds are high.

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it_user741327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Administrator with 11-50 employees

It is great size-wise and the user interface is easy to use. You don't need to be a pro to use this solution. 

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Buyer's Guide
Ubiquiti UniFi Switches
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Ubiquiti UniFi Switches. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.