 So I've done plenty of reviews of the Unify switches and the Unify product line and the Unify controller software that makes this all work and why as an MSP we like the Unify and the visual it gives you entirely of a client's network, but what I haven't talked about much is the edge switches and why you would want an edge switch versus the other one. Well, they're a different color, but of course that's probably the least significant difference. Right through my box way, we should probably do a quick comparison here. They both have 48 ports. They both have 2 1 gig SFP, 2 10 gig SFP, RJ45 serial console management to get into command line, which I've never used on any of the Unify products because I've never broke one. They've always worked, which makes me really happy. The intuitive Edge Max web UI versus the Unify controller software, that's where the first major difference comes in. Now this is not just the same hardware, there's different functionality inside of these and why would you choose an edge switch? I figure we'll cover that first before we come to review. The short answer is the edge switch is probably geared a little bit more to the enterprise environments where you want to be able to command line manage things and I've seen people even write some scripts where you could use Ansible or Puppet because this does SSH or you can do mass management. Oh, you're going, why the command line? Well, you have the web UI, which will get you all the basic functions, but if you've worked in an enterprise environment or you're a Linux enthusiast like myself, you realize the power of the command line. Even Microsoft has had to realize the power of the command line, Azure wouldn't exist without some of the things they did command line because that's the easiest way when you have large mass amounts of things that you need to configure. You can push configurations out over SSH. That being said, that's where a lot of power is. Now there's also a lot of power needs because they support routing and the routing on the support you have for these, it's a layer three routing so you can add some static routes. Now this does not support to my knowledge or maybe they will in the future, but I don't think there's really enough horsepower to do this. Like some of your more advanced OSPF type routing features, but you do have the ability to add static routes on the port. That is a specific use case, but there are those use cases when you're setting things up that you may want to do that. If you have certain routes that need to follow certain rules and you want to do it at the switch level and throw a static route in to split your network in a special way, that is something you can do with this. That being said, let's tear into it and actually take a look at this system here. So the unboxing, I'll do it this way because I don't have the overhead camera turned on. It's solid. It's the usual, Unify makes really nice equipment, it's heavy, it's got just an overall good feel to it. We are going to pop it open and look inside though, but it comes with the same things that the other Unify switch comes with. So you've got your rack ears, power cable, some screws to mount the rack ears on there, rack nuts, your quick little getting started guide. Now because this has its own web interface, you need to log into it. It doesn't work like the Unify where you adopt it in a controller software. So you don't get that cool visualization that you get with the Unify software, but it's like I said, and even why do we even have this here right now is because this has a client destination that has specific use cases that fit this. It also has, we don't manage the client with the Unify, it's going into an integrated network where they actually need a couple specialized things. Unfortunately, I can't take it to the client site because it's more fun NDA stuff and the nature of the business they work in doesn't allow me to show you the onsite set up for it and everything else, but it is going in because it has a special use case that will be mated with some other equipment and have some VLANs and all that fun stuff set up. This does have all the other, the usual support that you're going to find on a managed switch that you find on the other Unify lines of managing the VLANs and everything else, but you're all going to do everything and we'll get into this, the web interface on this and we'll show you the basics of the web interface. So let's pop this open though as I'm curious what it looks like inside because I have not opened one of these up though because I haven't reviewed them before, we've deployed but not reviewed, so we're, you know, going to take a look inside. I will note that on the back here we get your power, it still has, how many volts is that? It's a 25 volt DC power, so you can do that for I believe redundancy or if you're plugging into a rack that has that type of power set up and it's got your console that like I said I've never tested the console on these, I've never had one break to the point of doing this, firmware updates have actually all gone really smooth which makes me really really happy. And then the front, the usual, like I said, it's physically very similar to the Unify line, the ones I've done playing reviews were four in the front, so that being said, let's take a look inside. So the switch comes apart like the other one Unify Zoo, just a couple screws in there holding it. Interesting side note, this has a little bit of a dial pin that goes in here and a couple, what I'm assuming are these pads, feel like thermal pads, so I guess they help dissipate the heat from the heat sink side here, set me my assumption. The system vents out the back, so you have two small fans and like the other Unify switches that I've reviewed, they are modular, which I really like that that way if you have to replace a fan because these are not always put in the environments that I would prefer them to be put into and undoubtedly all of us have seen a dusty switch or seen dust as the cause of death of a switch. I, unfortunately, good news, I have not had any of the Unify ones dead in the field yet, but at least they do make them modular here. And because it vents in through the side, out through the back, pretty straightforward here, so you get your two large heat sinks, a couple smaller ones for the processing on here. Now, side note is I like the way the power supply itself is also modular, so there's four screws holding the power supply module in and you can simply just pop off the connectors and swap it out. So if you ever had to service this in the field, you don't need to bring your soldering gun with you. That's a certain advantage when you've had to do replacements and slide it out and, you know, the hell that is that. So that is a certainly a pain in the butt, but this is fairly straightforward. I mean, not as nice as a modular power supply, but that is externally exposed. But for the price and the compactness of the switch, this fits in really well. Other than that, it's the same clean design we've seen from Unify before. Just I like the layout. They don't have a bunch of clutter. They don't have a bunch of, oh, yeah, we soldered this. And if you've ever seen some of the random inexpensive things you can find occasionally on Amazon, you'll find where they jump or or rig something. That is not this. This is a professional product, so it is professionally made and everything's nice. They even got the proper, I don't know the glue is called, but it's the keep it there glue, I call it, that you put like between components to make sure that they don't vibrate or shake. All the other ones are surface mounts, so that's not really an issue. But with like capacitors, you don't want them just wobbling around here or being able to, you know, some guy with a screwdriver poking at him and making him wiggle, not really an issue here. They got the goop on there. All right, so as fun as this is, I just want to give you a peek inside. Like I said, it's the same design we've seen before from them, which is great. It definitely works well. And let's get into the software because that's where the real fun begins with this. So when you first set up the edge switch, it's going to get an IP address of 192.168.1.2 if there is no DHCP server. I plugged it into a network that does have a DHCP server. So this is the IP address that it was assigned based on the DHCP. So if there's none, you will get 192.168.1.2. If there is a DHCP server, it will hand out an address for this. Default login is UBNT, UBNT. And you may have noticed, too, this is the Edge Max login. There's a little box that says New UI. So we're going to talk about that real quick. I'm not going to go over every single detail in here. Now, this switch has a ton of features. And maybe in a later time, if I have time, I will go through and dig into it. I'm going to redirect you, though, to Willie Howe, who's done a lot of dig ins to this switch. It is, like I said, very powerful compared to the Unify. Unify is the standard white box. Unify ones I reviewed before that use the Unify controller are nice. They have most of the functions that you need in a small business environment. But that being said, when you want a powerhouse, you need something like this. So you can get in and start doing a lot more fine-grained detail, not to mention the command line as well. So here we have our, like, port summary dashboard, VLAN setup, link aggregation, port mirroring. I've already updated the firmware to be the latest firmware, which is 1.74. So there's a lot you can do inside of this. I'm not going to get into the VLANs. Like I said, Willie's done some good videos that'll get you started on some of that. It does have at least nice, the little link ports, what they're negotiated at up here at the top. So you can kind of, you know, look at it, see what's plugged in, dig into what's plugged in on each port, see the IP address. You can click on a single port and edit it. And you can see all the options you get for that single port. So Unicast storm recovery, enable, disable percentages. There's, like I said, a lot of little things you can do for each port. And of course, it expands even more from the command line. And you can go when you go to download this, have an entire detailed document that shows you all the command line features that you can do for this. So like I said, it's a lot more extensive. Now I'm not covering today either because it goes under the scope of this, but it does have support for the UNMS. So the ubiquity network management system. Now this is popular more in the enterprise WISP market where you're remote doing this. This is a similar, but different product than the Unify controller software that we use to manage from an MSP standpoint. So I guess that these are a little bit different because it supports the UNMS versus the Unify. It is the same company, but like I said, two very different lines of software and tools that they have, because they have slightly different use cases. Going back over to the, the menus are things like that. There are so many little details that you can configure from this menu. So each one of them, like I said, the whole list, and I'm not going to break down every little detail in here, but it does support, like here, we've got Mac based VLANs, VLAN wizards, status port configurations, private VLAN, set up separate voice VLAN. Like I said, there's so many different little switching things that you can do in here, setting up port security per interface, static Mac, dynamic pack, protected ports, spanning tree. These are sometimes where you're worried someone's going to change something out on a port or swap a device, you can lock things down in there. And of course, then we have the routing menus. So we can see the summary art table here. Really not much in here right now. We don't have much plugged into this interface summary, interface configuration and statistics based on IP. Like I said, it's a little bit more involved and a lot more flexible than the standard Unify one, but it's like I said, the ideas for more advanced features and things like that. Security supports radius, name, server, account and configuration here and right here, port access, control, statistics. So you can dig in some of those details and we have a QoS menu. So you can set up QoS, summary configuration and other little details for class of service and you're doing this on a per port basis. So that's, you know, like I said, some real details. So you're going to set up that are go beyond what your normal use case is like for maybe an average user, especially for home users. Not that this can't be using your home. Matter of fact, they aren't not a bad switch for home because you one, you don't have to run any special controller software because it has the Web interface to if you ever want to start playing with and you're like me and want to dig in this stuff. They don't make a bad switch at all to have at the home because you have so many advanced things at your fingertips. So if you want to play around and dig into things, all the features are here. Now let's take a look at the new UI. I think this is kind of slick because it has the more common that we're used to interface from the Unify. It's pretty. It's white. It's got the sliding menus, but that being said, you may notice that there's not a lot going on in here. So let's look at the individual port. We can see the link status. We can disable port isolate to port, turn on DHCP snooping, enable flow control. But you can see how it's a lot more basic. So it gives you the nice interface here. It can tell you like the throughput and data going across the network. I just have one device plugged up like my laptop and just have something plugged in gives you some basic settings here, turn on SSH server. Please leave Telnet off unless you have some really crazy use case for it. As you know, Telnet passes credentials in clear, so not ideal. So there's not a lot here. I left it at DHCP for now till it gets deployed to the client. It does have the ability to ping things on there. So you can see the ping times from the switch to that. So kind of novel. I like the way they did this. Look at the Mac table again. We can ping this. We can see the TTLs and the stats from here. So pretty cool. I like the new UI, but like I said, it's a lot. I've now covered the new UI and it pretty quickly versus the old UI. Well, obviously, there's just so much more. I do like it's one click. If I want to force it down to a different link status and things like that. And you get these, you know, charts kind of see that the data going across and such. So like so, this is not going to be in depth on this, but I just want to do a comparison and a quick review of the switch. It's definitely a solid performer. It's a great switch. It has, like I said, a different use case than your standard unified edge. 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