 Unify US8 150 watt PoE switch. So this is your basic Unify switch with all the cool Unify features ties into the Unify dashboard. And I realize I haven't reviewed one of these or taken one apart. So I figured time to take a look at them. This is actually destined for our office because we have a handful of PoE things at the very front of our office that we've added. And this is a convenient switch to do so. It's compact, it's small, it will fit in the rack but unfortunately it's not rack mountable. Now it does come with some ears that are already stuck to where it's going to go so I actually don't have them. I'm grabbing this before they get finished mounting it but you'll see in the box it comes with ears. It's not rack width so you can mount it flush on the wall but it's a great little 150 watt PoE. And I figured first thing we're gonna do is pop it apart. So we're gonna go ahead and take it apart here because I wanna look inside before we talk about some of the other features. And carefully, carefully, maybe, maybe, all right. There we go, we got it open. There's only two screws in it by the way. I took those out before we started. There's only two little screws in the back and now let's take a look inside. So the only two screws are go through this and into this so two at the back and it slides but we also have the light in the front which you do have to disconnect. So that gets that part of it off there, no big deal. And you see that there's no fan in it. So we have 150 watt power supply, the standard AC adapter right here, AC plug, Molex style connector. The one large passive heat sink which just does seem to operate. We left it on for a while, testing a handful of things on it. It seems to stay right around the 120 degree mark. I figure what that is in Celsius. We see it maybe go a little bit higher but that was at the heat sink lower. We're actually testing it with this right here which it's off now so it's not gonna give a good accurate reading. But it does not seem to be too hot nor need a fan. It did not come with one like I said here. So that's not been a problem. Build design standard. We got the nice little ubiquity right here. We did not find and if you referenced back two years ago in one of the first Unify videos we did find a fingerprint in one of these. This is no fingerprints inside of here. Everything's nice, clean and exactly as you see it. And being passively cooled is not bad. It does have the venting on the side right here to kind of passively get air flow through but I don't recommend stacking things on top of it. Is a all metal design here. So you can, all metal, metal and that will help kind of keep the heat somewhat dissipated cause metal will dissipate heat but if you start stacking things on top or blocking air flow on these side vents of just the ambient air flow that may happen it may get even hotter. So pretty basic from the inside. Like I said, everything looks solid. Somewhat easy if you were to have to replace the power supply because it's not soldered to the board. You could just pull one connector off and one connector off here and the power supply is a separate board. But in the past because people have asked me about this have we ever had Unify switches go bad? Yes we have. Their army process is pretty pain free. Not really a problem. All right, let's go ahead and slide this back on. Oh, a little comment. It does have these little notches right here. So when you're putting it back together they clip into these when they slide so make sure it all lines up. Which is not difficult to do. It's just noteworthy if you're wondering why it doesn't line up. If you for some reason are like me and take your switch apart cause you wanna look inside of it. Or maybe you don't need to look inside of it cause I took it apart for you. So you kind of gotta get it on there and then push, squeeze and now it's lined up. Now if we look at the front here we have an SFP ports SFP not SFP plus these are standard one gig ports. Then we have eight POE ports. Now, in case you're wondering they do make a lower wattage version of this. They make a USG eight port with no SFP and only four of them are POE. That's a little bit less money than this one. This one right now a list for like 199. You may be able to find a cheaper but it's not, it's only a little bit more but you're getting 150 watts and this is full 802.3 AFAT POE plus. The other one I don't believe has the full support on there. You can compare it on their site and they have the specs listed but having the SFP obviously these ones are not POE but these are POE so you don't have to waste any POE ports interconnecting it between a switch or whatever your uplink is. So the switch is set up, adopted and I just threw a couple devices on there. This is what we were testing it with before we finished mounting it and putting it into our network here. But the switch works perfectly fine with POE. I'm running a Unify HD here and I grabbed a real link POE camera and plugged it in as well. And let's look at the software real quick. So it's part of any other Unify from air with the Unify software. It shows up in the dashboard, we adopt it, update it to the latest firmware and it's working perfectly fine. It also does a little mouse over so you can see how many watts each thing is using in here and it's got, we'll go over here to configure the ports. Here we go. Move this up. You can select, I'm gonna select them individually. It will show you exactly how many watts each port's using. So the camera's currently using 2.78 and the HD, which is plugged into port three is using 6.57. And if we go to edit the ports, you can see that we have, let's go down here, turning off the POE, 24 volt passive is supported and POE plus. Plus your other features such as switching, mirroring, aggregate, unicast, multicast, broadcast, LLDP med, this is for your pass through for your phones. The spanning tree protocol is supported and you can do egress rate limiting. So if you wanted to set a specific egress rate limit for it, that is possible as well to do some restrictions. Those are all the features that are supported on this, which it does not have some of the more advanced options that you may find in other ones, but for a small office, this is probably perfectly adequate for a lot of the use cases that you would want to use such as plugging in a couple of POE phones in a wifi and maybe a couple of cameras in a little four person office. That's where we've used a few of these before. Now the switch does support opening a terminal. I like this feature a lot. This is part of a unified feature, but you also have to have a new enough modern piece of unified equipment support. This is supported on quite a few different models and it's being able to turn all right to the device. And you can SSH into it of course, but I like being able to do it all through the UI right here and this allows us to start looking at what's plugged in and start pinging things. Cause sometimes just the basics is where you have to start to figure out why something's gone wrong. And let's look at uptime for example. And we can see how long it's been up for 16 minutes after I restarted it. That's some of the editing and me setting up for this video. So didn't, didn't, it has not been up too long. The system also has the ability to tell you what temperature it's operating at. And after 16 minutes we're at 49 C. I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit. I think it's like about 120. So it's a roughly 120, which is what we see it kind of peek out at after it's been on for a while. So it doesn't get much hotter than this, at least you are testing it has not. I imagine if I leave this on top long enough, maybe it'll get a little bit warmer. But like I said, the venting is on the sides here. But overall it's another solid little switch from Unify. I like the fact, like I said, it being passive. There's no fan story about. There's no noise if it's in a small office or happens to be sitting in your desk. And I've mentioned this before. I really like for example, these Unify nano HDs. If you were a home user and looking to get a basic but good switch and jump into the Unify ecosystem, you can combine for example, the Unify Gen 2 plus controller, the Unify nano HD and maybe a couple of cameras. And you can build out a pretty small home office or small home user setup for not too much. I mean, I know $200 is not free, but it's also not crazy expensive for a managed POE switch with the features and power you get with the Unify system. So I think it's a good buy. 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