Ubiquiti Wireless Scalability

Brian Massey - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

There are some limitations on scalability. It's a great solution for smaller networks. On larger networks, little things start stacking up after a little while. They haven't been terrible, but I don't feel like Ubiquiti is a true enterprise-level wireless solution.

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Kiarash Heydari - PeerSpot reviewer
Information security manager at asa com

My impression is that this solution is scalable. There are about 400 users of this solution in our company.

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Denis Dolci - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Active S.r.l.

My company doesn't have to deal with really big networks since our target is in the area of installation, but we never had a scalability problem with the product. If a user needs more of the solution for better coverage, our company can install a couple of more devices. There is absolutely no scalability problem.

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Ubiquiti Wireless
March 2024
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HU
CEO at AnyWi Technologies

The solution is very scalable. 

Our customers range from small to very large companies, and it can handle any size pretty much.

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TW
CEO at CITOM

Scalability is one reason we use Ubiquiti. It's easy to scale up because of the centralized administration approach. 

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Sachin Vinay - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Amrita

It is not very scalable. 

We have six networking people using the solution. 

We are not planning to increase Ubiquiti as we don't have good feedback regarding Ubiquiti Wireless. 

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Romanas Juska - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Baltneta

Currently, Ubiquiti has no issues with scalability, so there are no problems in scaling that network and the conference off.

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DP
Consultant at Lifeline IT

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Around 2,000 to 3,000 people in my company use the product.

The product is extensively used in my company. My company plans to increase the use of the product.

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PM
IT Manager at Decorgel

The platform is easy to scale.

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Amir Sanayeayan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Specialist at NIGC

The solution is suitable for small and medium businesses. We have 20-25 users in our organization.

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BO
Owner at IoT Integrativ Technologies

This is a scalable solution. I'd rate its ability to scale eight or nine out of ten. 

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SA
IT Manager at Rotana Hotels

It is scalable within a certain range, but I think it's not for very big companies. If you install Cisco, for example, you can leave it to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week and it would go nonstop for two or three years without an issue. For Ubiquiti, I don't think that is possible.

It is a lack of hardware. The hardware is good compared to some other companies. If you comparing to Cisco, though, it's not as good. Cisco is much better at making hardware.

I have many friends using Ubiquiti. I also know may companies using Ubiquiti. In Iraq 75% use UDM products.

They have some products that can be used in both big and small companies. For the point to point application, there is a product that is very widely used in Iraq. You can advance, for example, one gigabyte of data through 23 megahertz to the user. It's called airFiber 11FX and it's very, very widely used in Iraq. There is also the 5X, 5U and 5XHD, and airFiber 24 and 24HD. I don't think Cisco has such a solution. This is why it's used in many companies, even on the enterprise level.

We also use their fiber internet to bring an internet connection to a place that is very far away from the town. So they use this product to get an internet connection.

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GR
CEO at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

It is a highly scalable platform. I rate it a nine out of ten.

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Ammar_Farhat - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Hubtech

Ubiquiti Wireless is scalable. However, the number of access points should be determined. 

When using Aruba ClearPass we discovered the controller is not talking to Aruba ClearPass, but every access point can communicate with the Aruba ClearPass. That means every access point is working alone but the controller only pushes the configuration to all access points. It is not really an access point controller.

We have approximately 1,200 people using the solution.

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WS
Owner at CableWeb

Ubiquiti is highly scalable.  I've seen Ubiquiti rolled out in massive setups and huge buildings. I know companies that run large warehouses, manufacturing, etc., and their whole backend infrastructure is Ubiquiti. They are pleased with it.

They function as well as Cisco core switching. Sometimes it just depends on the scenario, but from a scalability point of view, all Ubiquiti products work together. 

I can mix old Ubiquiti access points, LR units, etc., with new Ubiquiti products. More recently, they've done things like Nano and Wifi 6. You can't mix the Wifi setups, but that's a technology issue, not a product issue. That allows a lot of scalability. Most of them don't reach layer 3 level on their standard switches, but most are layer 2. You have edge switching and layer 2. It's rudimentary networking.

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Alfred_Pullicino - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Genesis Global

My understanding is the solution can scale. 

We have four or five people using the solution. It's just for home usage. 

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Jessy Liao - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Aurigasec

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

In our company, twelve people use the product.

My company probably has plans to increase the usage of the product.

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DB
Security engineer at ARCEP Togo

It is a really scalable solution. 

We have around 100 end-users. Maybe 20 are using the network, with the rest on wireless.

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Jorge Costa Neves - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Advisor at Silopor SA

We have not had to scale Ubiquiti Wireless, but it would be easy if we decided to.

We have approximately 70 connections to Ubiquiti Wireless. We have approximately 60 phones and 10 laptops and other additional devices connected. All our departments are using this solution, such as our electrical and mechanical departments.

We are using Ubiquiti Wireless at half capacity in my company. In the future, we might increase usage, but this depends on if it is necessary.

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George Ferns - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect - Networking and IoT at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

Ubiquiti Wireless is not easy to scale. Scalability is a problem. Get your five AP (access points) and you're fine, but if you want to put 50 AP, you'll have a big problem. It's not scalable.

Another thing is from the management perspective with cloud keys and the way that they use cloud keys, it isn't scalable.

It's also not multi-tenanted, so you can't really use it. When you have multiple branches and sites, management becomes a big problem.

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AS
CEO at Cybertek

The solution is scalable. It's very widely used in Iraq. Around 80% of people here use Ubiquiti.

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Milena Yordanova - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Aquatec

The solution is scalable. It can expand well.

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OD
CMO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The product can scale well. There's no problem with that. They work like Meraki and the device acts just make a mesh.

We have ten people in the organization that use the solution. 

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HB
Senior Site Reliability Engineer / System Administrator at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

It is pretty scalable. It is easy to scale. Whenever we need more access points, it is easy to set it up. 

We have roughly 200 users with mixed roles. We have engineering, finance, HR, customer service, and CEO. In terms of increasing its usage, we just upgraded last year. We are in a good position right now. If our company expands, we might add or upgrade our network.

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WS
Owner at CableWeb

This is a very scalable solution. You can put in a bigger switch or change other components. No matter what you want to do, it's very scalable.

Ubiquity does not recognize somebody who supplies legacy switching. It declares mostly layer two. It is scalable to that level, but I think in most cases, if somebody is looking for a layered solution then they're going to go to a dedicated layer specialist like Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, or HPE.

We have approximately one hundred and fifty to two hundred end-users for this solution between different companies.

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Wayne Cook - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Virtually Anywhere Interactive

Ubiquiti Wireless is very scalable. I don't know that there's a limit to scalability. We just add more data switches to power more access points. We haven't come across a situation where it can't handle the Ubiquiti equipment.

It's mostly used by guests or property owners. Management accesses the wireless network as well, but they don't have any role in managing it or maintaining it. We do all that. So, it's really just internet access for guests and homeowners.

The people doing the installation are basically just connecting the wires to the access points and mounting the access points. I think we had two installers and then one engineer that's just managing everything; they're logged into the interface and adopting the access points and setting up the network control.

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MC
Information Technology Supervisor at JLR Construction and Aggregates Inc.

In terms of scalability, I cannot say at this time how it is. If it is a very small one, it may have one or two points only. We only have maybe three to four antennas. That's not very much. I cannot grade scalability with such a small deployment.

We have 20 users at a maximum on this product. They are all in operations. The engineering department doesn't use it that much.

In the advent of fiber, it's unlikely we will increase usage. 

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Kim Walker - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at RVC ICT Voice and Data Pty Ltd

We've run into a few limitations in what we call large accommodation environments where we've got about 100 wireless devices, trying to do things with USG type routers, onsite controllers, where they run out of capacity. This could have been our technicians making incorrect estimates of what was possible, but we're having to put in small local service to do that function. It would be preferable to have everything occurring in the core router. When that happens, the core device is overloaded and it's difficult to access it remotely. That's been one of the issues we've run into as we've pushed the limit on the number of devices on a single site.
We maintain over 1,000, probably 2,000 devices with just three people.

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Volodymyr Khorenzhyi - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Thunder Software Technology Co., Ltd.

This is a good solution for small and medium-sized enterprises and not more than that. It might not scale to the needs of very large companies. 

We have up to 100 users at this time.

We will likely increase usage in the future.

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CD
System Engineer at DIMASOFT.NET

The scalability of the solution is good. Our clients are typically medium-size businesses. Our clients frequently tell us to install Aruba from HP, Cisco, or Juniper. They see this solution as best suited for small enterprises. We have to explain to them Ubiquiti is working on the security and stability of their wireless network.

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EO
Senior Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable. Approximately one thousand people are connected to it.

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Rodrigo Guenoe - PeerSpot reviewer
Gerente de Segurança da Informação at Telefónica

It is a scalable solution. We have approximately 15 users using this solution in private and 12 or 13 on guess connection. There are three people responsible for maintenance.

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RM
IT System Technician at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

I have not yet experimented with the scalability of Ubiquiti Wireless. 

I am using it at home.

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JR
Technology Systems Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable. We recently added more access points and they integrated into the system very smoothly. We have over 1,200 users. We have a maintenance department of three network administrators who deal with Ubiquiti and any other tech matters. 

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HH
IT Staff at Holy Name University

The scalability of Ubiquiti Wireless is very good. We can add and transfer access points, it is highly scalable.

We have approximately 2,000 faculty and 3,000 students using this solution.

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DD
R&D Engineer IC Design at inLab Ltd

The product is scalable.

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MZ
President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The product can scale. 

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MN
Owner at it logic

It's a scalable product. The scalable range is from five kilometers to forty kilometers.

Depending on the model, if we are providing Mbps, we are using a higher-end model of Ubiquiti and Mikrotik for users.

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CS
Senior Security at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Ubiquiti Wireless is very easy to scale.

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PC
Head, IT Division at USTTB

In my office, we have approximately 100 people using wireless. Not all of them are using the service at the same time.

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HU
CEO at AnyWi Technologies

The most current version that we are using has scalable storage. The scalability depends on the equipment. They do switches now which helps balance the load. We are not using all the options at this point, but we are capable of using multiple access points. 

So the product is scalable within certain limits. Some of those are what we place on our understanding of the product and the security.

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DC
ICT Manager/Systems Administrator at a university with 201-500 employees

For a small deployment, they are very good. I haven't used them in a very large deployment, and therefore can't speak to its scalability.

That said, it's my understanding that you can definitely add more access points if you need to.

The latest deployment was for an office of about 20 people. It's not a big job by any means.

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IC
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The scalability is very good. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

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WS
Owner at CableWeb

It is very scalable. On a scale of a point, it depends on who you talk to, if you're going to talk to a hardened IT manager that has to look at security and anything like that, they're going to look at a layer three switch provider. It depends if you're doing any kind of financial institution. It depends on what you build as your backbone. However, from a scalability point of view, I think they're extremely scalable.

I've spoken to guys that run very big corporate networks, like Ford company for instance. Ford uses Ubiquiti as their backbone, so they're happy with the security and they're happy with the fact that it's only a layer two switch. Where somebody like a standard bank would not look at Ubiquiti because it only goes up to layer two capability. They'll put a layer three backbone in but they might use Ubiquiti's APs on that layer two backbone. It comes down to a matter of opinion. I have had other guys say to me that layer two is more than enough because of the way they've set up their network. It's a very interesting question but to be short, it is very scalable.

Everybody starts up- in the beginning, only small companies adopt it and then people slowly but surely will adopt it in a department or whatever else. But my point of view is that I've seen big companies, like Ford motor company use Ubiquiti to a large extent. We are actually about to embark on a very big network setup that's going to go to multiple countries. And we're definitely going to be using Ubiquiti as my wireless connection of choice.

I'm very very happy to do it like that. We've done a lot of research on it and I've still got people that have to do the final go-ahead on it. But eventually, at the end of the day, the choice is ours.

We don't need to do a lot of maintenance. It depends on the nodes. The nice thing about it is that most networks nowadays including Ubiquiti, depending on how your network is set up, all your access points can literally be monitored from a single point. I can have a thousand access points running and I can monitor them from a single point as long as my network is connected and on how your infrastructure is built. I  have one network engineer monitor my wireless for multiple levels of my company. 

I don't need a lot of people. When it comes to installation and whatever, you need a normal fateful installation team, it's not any more difficult or any easier than most APs to install. It comes down to normal network rules in what you do. You don't need so many network engineers to control different aspects of the network. Nowadays you need somebody to look after security, you need somebody to look after networking, you need somebody to look after software, you need somebody to look after hardware. At the moment the thing that's the most intense is desktop support and desktop maintenance. That's the thing that's the most intense. And thanks to Coronavirus, I think the adoption of remote monitoring, remote support and everything like that has just exponentially grown. Many more people are doing remote support. I think the world is very much going to be moving a lot in that direction over then the next two or three months.

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RS
IT MANGER PAN-INDIA at Escon Elevator Private Limited

The solution is scalable. We have 100 people using the solution in my organization.

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ER
MIT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable. The eight-person IT department is using the solution as well as everybody else because they use wifi, approximately 32 employees.

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MC
CEO at SoniqSoft JRMM sp. z o.o. s.k.

Ubiquity Wireless is scalable.

There are only 22 people in my organization that use this product but within our installation base, there are thousands of users.

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KK
Health Information Services Systems Engineer at a performing arts with 1,001-5,000 employees

Ubiquiti Wireless scales very well.

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IC
IT & Software Manager at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

This is a scalable product. 

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SP
Managing Member at Pender & Associates

It is scalable. We currently have 20 customers using this solution.

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MG
Network Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

Sometimes, I feel it's scalable. We have 500 users of this solution.

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MZ
President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is very easy to scale. If a company needs to expand this solution, it can do so fairly easily.

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EA
Director at Existco PTY LTD

It's a very scalable solution. 

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

The scalability is quite good. If a company needs to expand out the solution they can do so easily.

We have a little less than 50 users on the solution.

We do plan to continue to use the product and may increase usage in the future.

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it_user144936 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
OS
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In terms of scalability, these wireless products are good. We have quite a few deployed services, and I would say more than 500 end-users.

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BR
Team Lead at Comstar - Information Systems Associates Ltd.

It is scalable. 

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