Does anybody have any experience with the new Unifi Enterprise Campus switches?
Are they really Enterprise class? What Enterprise features are they missing?
Everyone has their own idea on what is “enterprise” on this forum. What features are you looking for in particular that will fit your needs?
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Ubiquiti has some confusingly names products right now. “Enterprise” switches have been out for a while and work well, choose them if you need their particular ports and other specifications, but they have the same software features as the rest of the current generation switches (e.g. same L3 feature set as the Pro lineup if you are going to use that). The new “Enterprise Campus” switches aren’t out yet (for the copper switches, the Aggregation fiber switch is out), anyone who has one is under an NDA and cannot tell you anything beyond what is available on store.ui.com
As to whether any of these are Enterprise Class - that remains to be seen and depends on your requirements for “Enterprise”. For my day job at a Fortune 500 scale company, I require MLAG or equivalent on the core switches (ECS-Aggregation has this) and MLAG or true stacking on the edge switches (I hope the ECS will have this but there is no mention of it on the store page), because we need LACP links between separate pieces of hardware in the MDF and IDFs. In our warehouses a single switch or fiber outage cannot cause even 15 seconds of outages, because our automations (robots, conveyors, etc.) will halt and need manual intervention to resume operations, costing thousands of dollars per emergency stop. So Unifi has been a hard no until now (again, hopeful on the ECS, I don’t know for certain).
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I’m working for a company that is loathe to spend money on IT. Previous owners set it up with cisco Nexus 5 and C3850s at the core. Both are approaching end of life and I was wondering if a stack of Unifi Enterprise Campus switches would do the job way cheaper than Cisco.
What features are you using currently or wanting to use in your switch stack?
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