 So I have a Unify 48 port 750 watt PoE switch we're gonna review today. I also have a Unify 48 port standard switch, and I brought that one up here because it's kind of comparison, so you realize just how much bigger it is. It's not just PoE, it's bigger to accommodate for the PoE, so it's not just the same chassis, although the front appears to be pretty much identical on both of them. So this is the 48 port, like I said, reviewed it before, love these switches. The 2448, the whole line of ubiquity switches we've been really, really having, the Unify line of them specifically, is what I'm talking about. Now I know some of you are always asking, do I go with the Edge or do I go with the Unify? There is different use case scenarios and you can do some comparison on them, but these, the current versions of these are not layer two switches, the Edge ones do support layer two functionality. There is a beta coming out, I've seen on their store, I don't know much about it, supposedly gonna add some more functionality to these. That's not these ones, these are just your Unify 48 and Unify 48 750 watt PoE. Now these come in 750 watt and 500 watt models and we're gonna start the comparison of just how much bigger they are. Now they both still come with 48 gigabit ports, two SFP and two SFP plus ports on them, so that's still, when you're looking at them right on top of each other, that part's identical in terms of that as far as all the ports they have. So that makes them identical, but where they're very different is the size of them. And you can look up the dimensions, but yeah, it stands quite a bit taller so you get a lot more depth. So make sure if you're getting these that you have a rack that has the depth to support the taller switch. Now the ears on here are made on versus these come with ears with the standard 48, but they come in a bag and you just screw them on there. So they're not like on there when you pull them out of the box. They come with some hardware, they come with some, they come with the rack nut hardware, they come with the power cord, and that's about it, not a lot of other stuff in the box. So switch power cord, mount each screw, a couple of cage nuts, and a quick setup guide. So I'm gonna get these boxes out of the way. Now the first thing to note here, this thing's heavy, like it weighs quite a bit. And we're gonna, before we play with the software to show you how the POE works on it, I'm gonna open it up and show you what's inside. Now the first thing I'll note, there's a lot more screws than this than there was in the other one, probably because it's bigger, heavier, and to make it really solid. But like the other switches, they are heavy metal case, not plastic. Like I said, this thing's heavy and very, very solid. Pull off the cover here. Now the fans, if you didn't notice, were on the side as opposed to the exhaust fans that are out the back of the other switch. And this is a little peek inside here. So we'll flip it up real quick and then we'll go to the overhead. So you can see it's pretty heavy duty. You got the fans on the side, fans on the side here, console on the back, just like the other switches have. So pretty much that's the same. Like I said, the front panel is the same. But when you're looking inside, you notice that this power supply is really solid looking. I mean, nice big capacitors, nice little spacers here, and a piece of plastic to keep you from touching it with metal objects like I'm doing now. Really heavy gauged, well-routed, cabling. It looks really nice inside. And I like this one, I'm looking at these and I don't see stuff that's all kind of done poorly. This has the little, I'm gonna see if I can pick this up a little, is it glued? Yes, it's got sticky, I don't wanna pull the sticky off because it's got the capacitors in there. But they got the anti-vibration. It's kind of hard to see, but it's the goop that you put in there to keep everything solid. It's around all the coils here, which these are coils to help condition a power. So this is, like I said, everything inside of it looks really, really well-made. You got some very large heat sinks here and to help dissipate the heat and the processors on it and then the four fans. The nice thing is because the fans are not soldered, they're easily removable. And I think that's really nice. It looks like you could actually add more fans if you wanted to. I don't know if these are actually powered, but they do have the connectors on there. So being that they're pretty standardized fans, easy to replace if you ever had to do that. Sometimes you expect that these are gonna be running for a long time in a high-end environment. So you're gonna end up with maybe a fan failure. It does happen from time to time. And the airflow is from this side to this side. So just to keep that in mind, if you are putting it something, you don't wanna block these fans. So the airflow is going from this way to this way. It also has this, I wanna call it a plastic plenum here. So this back fan cools the power supply and this fans cool the boards itself and all the other parts. Pretty nice design. I'm not gonna take it any further apart. I don't really want to. I just wanna kind of see how they designed it and see how they look inside. But everything looks great. Like I said, it's all very solid. The modular of these fans not being soldered on. That's something I'm gonna give them a lot of points for, because that's a huge issue if you've ever had to go in there and then splice. You're like, yeah, the fan's going bad and I gotta slice it. They can just order one of these and sometimes they can probably even find it with that same connector under. Probably wouldn't be too hard to do. All right, I'm gonna put the lid back on now that we gotta look inside and we'll get to the important part is how does the software work on it and how the device actually functions. And this is pretty cool because I really like the way the Unify handles this. So the switch is powered up. We got a few devices plugged in. For those of you who follow the channel, these are the mesh devices that I'm going to do a video on soon. But we plugged these in so we have something to power on here. I grabbed a camera because there's a bunch of cameras gonna be plugged into this so we can do some testing. Now, once the switch is plugged in you go through the usual adoption that you do for Unify and it goes into the dashboard. It is the same as the other switch I reviewed. So we're gonna go run over the features that it has. But for the most part, if you're wondering what features it has it's all the same as the standard Unify switch except it has PoE as well. So let's jump into how this works in some of the details. So we have a little test network set up and I'm logged into the Unify software and I'm also gonna leave this link in here as well. Unify understanding PoE, how Unify devices are powered because people always ask me some assortment of combinations of things that you can plug in. Unify has answered that question with a handy dandy chart and tells you what you can power with what. By the way, this USA 487, I'm sorry, US 48750 watt, it powers all the things. So this is gonna be updated as more devices get released from Unify so this link should always be relevant. They have updated a couple of times to add the list of the devices on there and it talks about the different models it supports. So this USA 48750 supports passive 24, it supports 802.3af and 802.3at. So all of those are on here. So that's all the support that this thing offers. All right, now let's actually look at the software and look at the adoption and show you how the ports work. So I'm gonna take this and I kinda like popping it out of the little thing so it's undocked. And I'm actually starting right here on port five. So just like the other Unify, you have your ports and it shows what's connected, what's connected. Here's a little table of contents, your one gig versus your, you know, SDP, MIR, 24 volt PoE or PoE plus. Now I looked at this one first because this is where the camera is plugged in and the camera does not work on the standard PoE. You have to turn the cameras onto 24 volt passive. So if you ran out and bought this switch and you ran out and got cameras and then you Google search and you came to this video this is how you're gonna get the camera to work is setting each port that a camera's plugged into 24 volt passive. I'm not gonna get into every detail of why that works in the history of the entire problems with compatibility but for the most part, this is the easy way to do it. Turn it on 24 volt passive and you can do that. Now you can disable PoE on a per port basis as well just so you know. So let's go back over here and we're gonna go back over to the port list again. So let's go back to the ports. Let me actually cancel so I close this and get to the list again. And you can see how it understands which wattage is being used. So as long as it's not on a passive mode you can understand the wattage when it's just on passive it just says send 24 volts there, don't negotiate. That's why it doesn't show there. Now Unify does have, and I'll cover this real quick, an adapter that you can plug in so you don't need to do that. And depending on where you got the cameras they come with the converter so it doesn't have to be on passive. So I showed you how to plug it in if you have the cameras and you don't have these little handy adapters and these are the AF2 passive adapters. I'll get the exact name of them. I'll put them in the link below. Actually, I should just read it off here. This is the 3AF plus G, INS 3AF plus G adapter. I'll put a link below, but we ordered the cameras to have these in here so you don't need to do it. That's how we got these ones. And if you plug the adapter in and we're moving over to port seven and a few seconds port seven will light up and you'll be able to see with this adapter how that works. So if you don't have the adapter you can just set this switch because it supports passive mode. You can put it in there, you can power these cameras or other devices that support 24-volt passive mode. Please note when you do enable that passive mode it does warn you that the device needs to support it because it's just gonna send 24 volts to it. So if you aren't sure and you're not using this particular unified camera or one of the ones in that list that I have a link for in the description below, make sure it supports that, whether it's a device or a hook-ing range, you don't wanna damage either the switch or the device, you know, incompatible problems. All right, so the switch is all set here and now we can after a few seconds this will refresh and that camera will come on and we'll be able to see that. I've also have the switch running because I want you to understand how loud it is. These switches reasonably quiet. It's not, I've heard some of them that are just really loud and I imagine most of these fans are thermally controlled so they're probably gonna get louder if it's in a really hot server room. Hopefully your equipment's not in a hot server room but obviously you can hear me talking over it and maybe hear the slight background noise. I'm not doing any noise cancellation here. This will be straight out of the microphone, no post-processing so whatever ambient noise it makes you can hear. All right, so now it's in passive mode here and you can see the camera working with the adapter without me having to change the settings. So port five, passive mode, port seven. I'm gonna head and edit the port and you can see it's just in standard POE plus. Scroll down and cancel and close that. Now the other cool thing is how it measures wattage. So by the way, if you're wondering why it's orange just because these cameras do only connect at 100, they're not gigabit and these are green because they're connected to gigabit but the plus in the middle lets you know that they're powered from POE. So the camera just sitting here doing nothing is at 2.85 watts. Now we're gonna take the camera and face it straight down. And what that's gonna do is turn on the lights for night vision and in a few seconds it's gonna refresh again and it can tell you how many watts this camera is using in night vision. And the same thing goes for the other devices here. A lot of some of the device have options of power options to turn down how much of the wifi signal strength and they'll also are adaptive to try to, depending on the settings you have on it to try to get more range or more reach out of them. So that is another thing that will occur and you can watch the wattage. It takes, I'm doing all this in real time without editing out. So I'm gonna guess it takes about every two minutes before it updates, which is pretty slick though. Now if you wanna restart any of the devices you can go right here and I'm gonna mouse over you can just restart. Now I'm gonna go ahead and reboot this one in port one. Do you wanna re-power cycle on port one? Yep, and I can just easily do it. I really love the Unify interface. I find it very intuitive, very easy to use. Especially because you're dealing with some really good fairly enterprise equipment here that I can click with a mouse. And as much as I like the old school Cisco enabling switches from the command line and going in through a terminal I gotta admit this is pretty nice and it's pretty easy to manage and kind of get a good visual of what's going on. So I power cycle port one and now we're seeing that it's out and when it reboots it'll come back online. It goes from black after it powers off for a second and comes back on and we'll see it light back up. And we see our Unify over here on port seven is now using four watts of power versus the 2.8 it was using. And that variation is because of course now that the lights are on because the camera's facing straight down so it thinks it's in the dark. Put it back like this. And then the camera actually you can actually hear the lights turning on and off and it kind of makes a slight click noise when it sees all the lights. So that'll go back down. And we can see this is now up there. Now this is also when it first boots it uses a lot more wattage and then it settles down once it's done booting and uses less watts. Probably part of the control system. Other than that, you have all your standard advanced features that you have for Switch. We're gonna go ahead and go ahead and look at the profile override. So you can just turn POE off for one. You can do mirroring, you can aggregate. You can control the link negotiation. You can do port isolation on here. Storm control, multicast, broadcast and do some limitations on there. You can enable topology change notification. Now that's something kind of slick. This is notification based on if things change on the topology. Assuming the change is gonna be, for example, if someone unplugged something or changes something. One of the nice things I really enjoy about Unify, I'm gonna go over here to map and topology map. And these are the matches. Like I said, we're using them for another project. It tells you what ports are plugged into. Like here's our UBC plugged into port number seven. This one we called Marvin's car because we did test it inside the car because he has a plug in his car. And then here's the mesh one and here's the office mesh because we were doing a couple hops on there. But you can see what ports are plugged into. So this makes it really easy to identify. So I know port two is MESH. And this is handy if things are being done remotely. You're not on site, you're going, what is in that port? They make it really easy to go name, find all the ports, start naming the ports and start naming each camera. So you have a good idea and you can get a whole flow through like this camera is plugged into this port. So if you ever have to restart one of them, it's really easy just to pull it up, go to the map and away you go. Speaking of that, so from here, we're gonna go back over to the devices and we'll take a look at this device here. And this is something I really like. So if you go to the details of the device, uplink wired, 48 port POE, port three. You can click that and takes you right to port three. So this gives you a nice follow-through and we can then actually go through labels. Let me kind of walk you through that again, how that worked. So we're gonna close each of these little pop-ups that came up. So we'll take the one that's called in Marvin's car. We'll look at where it's uplinked and we know it's on port three. So we click on it and it opens up the switch rate to port three. Then we can actually click and edit and we can give that name Marvin's car mesh. And hit apply. So now we know what's in there. Instead of it being called port one, port two, Marvin's car mesh. And this is just great. So we already know that this is the camera and we can do the same thing here. We can name it and we'll say this is on the table. So when you're going through, it makes it really easy for all the unified devices especially to go through, label them, know what's plugged into each one and manage that. That way if someone says, hey, the Wi-Fi at the front of the building is having trouble, you can go to the Wi-Fi at the front of the building on the port list and power cycle it and away you go. So it's really the way Unify works with all this makes it very simple and fluid from a management standpoint. And of course with the Unify software, you can run your own controller so you can manage this from your office so you can go from a client call. Clients anywhere in the world, they're connected via the internet. Your controller has control of it. You can see the devices, see the connections, see if someone unplugged something or left something plugged in and start troubleshooting very, very fast. This is one of the reasons we love deploying Unifies for a lot of our clients because we can instantly get a visual map if we understand what they tell us is not working. It usually starts with a client call, I can't get on something and you go, all right, let me check your Wi-Fi real quick and you say, well, someone has unplugged it. Contractor has cut a cable. Someone just pulled the cable out or knocked something over. This allows you to get to that really quickly and kind of get a great visual of it. Configwise, pretty straightforward, you can name it. I called it 48 Port PoE but you can really call it whatever you want. When we deploy these to clients, we have a client that we deployed several of these throughout their building so we named each clause that has a name and we gave it the name that follows that naming scheme so you can also get a real easy idea of how to get to it and of course you can just restart it and then everything subsequently restarts that's on that as well. They restart reasonably fast. Services, you can enable flow control, jumbo frames, set some priority. It does support the spanning tree protocol and RTSP and STP. If you're not familiar, that's where and we've run into this. It's always a pain if you have a client with unmanaged switches and they start plugging things in and they loop something into another switch and you create this spanning tree problem. It does have protection against that. It does support SNMP if you wanna do that. Network, the device of course has to have its own address but you can override that instead of DHCP and assign it to be a static IP. Managed device itself, custom firmware upgrade, a force of reprovisioning of the device. Like I said, it's like any other unified devices so it all works fine there. Tools, open terminal. This is kind of a neat feature. Everything for the most part, everything that Unify does also has a small Linux kernel inside of it. Therefore, you're able to log into the devices and get into the behind the scenes detail and see what's going on and start messing around with the system. This also gives you advanced options. At that point, you can set the config and really start modifying things on these if you wanna get to real advanced stuff. We're not covering it today but yes, it does have that in there. So if you wanted to mess around and play around something real quite more advanced or start customizing it, you can. That's something I've really liked about Unify, the fact that you can do that. And they have top built-ins so you can start looking at things on there. It's part of the way the customization goes. Like I said, this applies to a lot of Unify devices, their switches as well. So pretty much that's it for the Switch. It's a great product. We've deployed these to a few of our clients. This one's going in at that big job for those of you that follow the channel that we showed, but they're a solid performer, not that warm. It's been running for, let's see, was it say 41 minutes that it's been running and it's really not that warm. Not very loud. It idols at 50 watts and of course the wattage is gonna go up depending on all the devices that you have hooked up to here. But being able to see the wattage per device, really cool. Really a big fan of these products. 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