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Fifty fifty. Their hardware is quite good. Their consumer line (AmpliFi) is Solidly Okay. From a management perspective, their UniFi system is bar none one of
by indrora 3y ago
Fifty fifty.
Their hardware is quite good. Their consumer line (AmpliFi) is Solidly Okay.
From a management perspective, their UniFi system is bar none one of the better solutions for large deployments where you've bought into their whole stack: Routers, switches, Firewalls, APs, everything. There's some things it does OK with other vendors (particularly switches) but it's meant to be managed under their garden.
The nice part is that you can preconfigure hardware, chuck them into a bin, and make it Just Work on the other side. Deploying 100 APs to a new location? Ship 'em direct to the site, they'll just Show Up in the unifi interface. New deployment? Drop a few bits of hardware on a bench, set it up locally, yeet to new location, install the rest, configure over the 'net.
Some people have sworn off them for a lot of papercuts: There's a few points where their UI just Doesn't Work. There's occasional spots where if you preconfigure it manually then try to use the management interface, you might exhaust a DHCP pool in an hour.
But the hardware has, and continues to be, maybe not "cutting edge" but slightly behind it at a price point that makes enterprises salivate and Prosumers go "Hmmm I could probably swing that." And it works for a lot of people.
That isn't to say every product they've put out has been a Banger. The Dream Machine was, at first, very much a mixed bag (and took several YEARS of True Believers really working with Ubiquti to get it right) and this is absolutely them recouping some design loss from their Aplifi Instant product (the case, design, even the screen is Very Similar to it). There's been versions of the controller hardware (and software) that have been... let's put it: Enough to send some people selling all their gear and moving vendors.