Alta seems to focus on simpler cloud management, but UniFi still has the edge with a more mature ecosystem, better firmware, and stronger community support. Curious if anyone has used both and noticed real differences in performance or reliability.
Alta labs seeming to be playing on the one thing most hated by many MSP/IT companies: Not having a partner program. I prefer UniFi’s direct model over putting having some reseller markup process that does not really add any value, only cost to the product.
I don’t see anything else compelling about their option and last I check their self hosted option did have cost, but they seem to have suspended the cost but still requires a licence key from them.
Received an NFR kit from Alta labs, so far just tested one of the AP Pro units. Software is super easy, they host the cloud which may be an issue for some. The Alta product line is very basic so far, No point-to-point bridge yet, and not yet released of a 48 port poe. However, I think they are on the right track with POE switch output, they are coming with more POE power on all switch ports for same pricing as unifi. Firewall specs so far as way behind unifi, I will be testing soon to see where it’s at.
So far, setup the firewall, 8 port poe switch and a couple of AP6 Pro are simple and fast to get going, however overall is not very impressive. The firewall is too basic, maybe for a basic home usage. The switch and AP are fine and work as well as unifi, software is ok just different, but lacking features. But that was expected, feature set is fairly basic but it is functional.
I don’t think it is anywhere near an option yet to replace even a small business running a Unifi solution. And I haven’t seen any development of features, which for the firewall make the whole thing a deal breaker.
Yeah, they have asked me to review the firewall but I declined telling them that until it has AT LEAST feature parity with UniFi it’s not really a competitor.
