 I'm here for more systems and this is a unify pro aggregation switch I've been testing this for roughly two months right now and so far no problems at all works quite well It's relatively quiet. I did take it apart. So we're gonna talk about what's inside and What all comes in the box so far though? No real issues at 25 gig no problems switching at 25 gig between devices I was actually using this for the last couple months for some of the storage testing and some of those videos I've released in the past if anyone was paying attention those devices happen to be connected at 25 gig through this device and Uplinked at 10 gig to several other devices and nothing I threw at it really gave it any trouble Matter of fact even doing that never really raised the temperature to the point where it got loud The four fans in the back that it has are relatively quiet They're standard fans with standard little connectors nothing too special about them But I didn't run into any issues before we dive into the details of this review first If you'd like to learn more about me my company head over to Lawrence systems calm if you like to hire short projects such as network consulting There's a hires button right at the top if you want to support this channel Other ways is affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services We talk about on this channel now Saying products and services in affiliate links. You'll find none for unify. This is something I purchased myself This was not provided by a unify at all or any affiliation with them We're also not a unify reseller So if you're looking to buy it head over to the unify website and with that Let's start right here on the unify store page the skew for it is the usw pro aggregation And it is currently listed for 899 here in the US and it is listed as in stock That's important because here in 21 2021. We've had plenty of supply chain issues So as of September 2021, it's in stock and that's the price They have all the other details in here that it's got the 28 10 gig SFP plus ports the 425 gig SFP 28 ports and also offers support for the usp RPS DC input We'll get to that in a second the other thing that's important to know There's no management interface on this it does require the unify software to find networking trolley software Which you can download for free and host yourself. You will need version 6.1 2 5 and later now on to the Couple quick questions one of them is layer 3 routing that's in the name and title of switch the unify switch This particular one does support layer 3 routing, but it's very rudimentary and basic I've actually covered it before and I'll leave a link to it in a video over here on To this part right here the redundant power system. I've reviewed this before and I don't think it's a great product The problem is kind of well Let's just explain it with only one power supply being in here And obviously there's a concern and we haven't really had any unified switches that have had power supply problems but still that is something that goes bad just in general a lot of switches and Unify solution was not to put two power supplies the traditional method which is used by many switches, but to use this connector on the edge here for connecting it to the external Basically another rack-mounted power supply that could power multiple switches at once a lot of the new unified stuff supports this The fatal flaw with it and to my knowledge this has not been changed since I did my review of that device is If the power supply goes out in this particular device the redundant power supply system kicks in and takes over and we'll let it run Until you power cycle this if this has a bad power supply or any switch on that has a bad power supply the Unify redundant power system does not power it up it only maintains power if a power supply fails kind of a weird failure mode and Also from a cabling standpoint the cabling that connects these is really bulky and awkward to try to get it tied up to the switches I don't know. I didn't think it was the greatest idea It's way easier and more common of course just to put dual power spice in Alternative options because not everything in this price range is going to have dual power supply That's actually when you start talking about the other enterprise level switches They are substantially more expensive especially when they come with like a hotspot power supply You can just buy two of these and that's really anytime something and as this was designed to be a very core Central part of your network or maybe you have all the uplinks from your other switches around the network It's probably worth it just to have two of these because power supply is one factor But there can be other factors where hey, it's electronic things go wrong firmware updates go bad So I would probably recommend having another one in stock an important detail I wanted to highlight back here on their page is the four SFP 28 ports don't support mixed speed at 25 gig mode once you set these ports to 25 gig these four on the end They all have to be 25 gig or they can all be set to 10 But you can't mix and match 10 and 25 and one the other ports It's fine. They will negotiate between 10 gig and 1 gig But these ones all have to be set to 25 if you want any of them to work at 25 And I'm glad they have it right here. It's just hopefully save somebody some troubleshooting Issues if they were running into that problem of wanting to use one of the ports on the end or the 25 gig are for an uplink at 10 Gig it won't work unless all of them are at 10 gig. Like I said, just Important little don't want to overlook it detail Now on to what comes in the box you get the cool little unify and don't want to dump them out here But couple four rack nut cage nuts and four screws to mount them You get some screws for the rack ears. You get the rack ears, of course You get a 10 gig cable not a 25 gig cable. I was a little disappointed, but at least I have one here it is a 10 gig SFP DAC genuine ubiquity here and it works perfectly fine at 10 gig Just why didn't they put a SFP 28 cable and it would have been nice But at least we do have the rack ears the mounting and if you don't want to put it on the rack They do give you the little rubber feet things as the little black thing is here So you can put feet on the bottom of it and avoid scratching it up like I've already done be it by sliding it around I kind of gouged it. Yeah, this side has a little gouge in it there Probably should have put some feet on it because while it's in testing I did not have the rack ears on it because it's one more thing to take off to Get the lid off and that noise is because yes, the lid itself is all metal. This is a metal design It comes apart relatively easy, but not too complicated one thing. I really like though is the power cord It's one of those fabric wrapped power cords. I don't know they feel a little nicer a little bit more premium But the cool feature is if you're wondering, yes, it's a normal power connector a common one But it also has this feature. So if we put it in and then we flip the little lever Don't try this at home kids I've done this now in two videos where I've hung things by their power cords I like things that make it harder to pull off the power cord Accidentally, so that's a nice feature that comes on some of the newer unify switches this one included. All right now on to the software All right, we're running unify controller version 6.2 point 2 6 I run this on my own stack and my own system So this is at my office and hosted actually Debbie and if you care what the back end is This is not on one of the cloud keys, but should work fine if you are using one of the cloud keys Now let's look at the devices We'll filter for pro I actually have two of them on here one adopted and one not we're gonna go ahead and do the upgrade and adoption and This is typical. They don't always ship them with the absolute latest firmware I usually do the update of firmware prior to adoption While we're waiting for this I will mention that this does have the on-screen display on the front of here that will tell you the IP address This is on the same network as the controller So it sees it and is able to adopt it. I don't have to type in any IP addresses here Also, as far as sound goes these actually are relatively quiet This is with both of them running. That's all the DBs were getting out of it. So relatively quiet I'm actually gonna say they're quieter than the other one right here the US 16 XG whichever review before I was actually shocked at just how quiet these are compared to even that So they're relatively quiet device. I'll leave a link to the review. I did of the 16 XG Right while we're waiting for that one to finish updating and then adopting Let's talk about the one we already have adopted and I've been doing all the testing with Interesting is when you're looking at the cables plugged into it This one has one of those QSFP tech RJ 45 to 10 gig adapters it does work with those and It works with the deck cables the interesting part is when you plug the cables into here like the 25 gig ports which Does not tell me what's even plugged in the bottom one here is actually plugged in via fiber An FS comm adapter and this is an FS comm deck cable I'll leave links those if you're interesting in those particular cables But it does not know which ones are plugged in and it's not a problem with the FS comm cables It's whatever you plug in to the SFP 28 ports. It doesn't seem to label them I don't know if this is something that can be fixed in firmware later But it's something of note the ones I've tested with so far. None of them have actually displayed anything as far as the Functional like if it's a deck if it's a fiber, but it does right here. It gives me all the information gives me the input output current voltage compliance of what it is and It does the same for the deck. Yeah, you can see for each one of these It even gets a serial number and part numbers But nothing when it's plugged into the 25 gate kind of interesting And I know someone always wants me to run this test and it's easy enough to do This is a the super micro server I have and a Dell server that I have I'm just gonna run I perf test They're just on the same network adjacent to each other and it's now running through So it's going from three dot two to eight to three dot two three two and yes It does work at the full 25 gig a second. I didn't have any issues Setting it up getting it to work Nothing special I was doing to get the speed out of there. I mean 23.3. It's just a little bit off I can probably do some tuning. This is all done without setting jumbo frames or anything else This is just standard default settings. No special options done No problem getting the speed out of it and each one of the devices I connected I have a few things connected as I said, I used them for some of my storage videos no issues at all Now the other one has now finished its firmware update We'll go ahead and adopt it into our network And it's as simple as that to get these added just like any other unified switch as far as that goes nothing special Now one last thing to talk about is this right here I think it did not have this feature when it first came out Someone had commented that it was only able to do six when you were setting this up for Actually aggregating the ports together, but now it supports more than that So it starts with that port and can go all the way for example from three to port 17 So we could create a really large aggregate group on here a few people have commented and it was a discussion I seen it some forums I believe it was not actually my forums where someone had said you could only do six but a firmware update later Updated that the firmware as of now that's available in September of 2021 allows us to take and we can start for example at port three Go ahead and edit this one drag it over here profile overrides aggregate and Go all the way up to port 18 if you want so you can do a lot more port style than you could before now You can also and we'll cancel this real quick You can if you want to go over to these ports here and do the same thing actually uncheck this box go down to the bottom and profile overrides Aggregate and you can be between 1332 so you can aggregate these ports together as well So you could bond all 425 gig ports to get a hundred gigs if you needed it So a couple extra options you do have in there and it like that It also has that reminder. I brought up that was in a documentation of SFP 28 ports don't support mixed speeds at 25 gig mode, but they do support aggregating them together I didn't really test this because I don't I mean I could connect it I guess to the other switch with all the ports, but I wouldn't be able to put enough bandwidth I don't have enough devices here to shove enough bandwidth between all of them to make it happen But either way it should work perfectly fine I don't really see a reason why not but it look at the specs to see what its maximum switching capacity is Final thoughts on the product if you like the unify ecosystem and the unify controller platform as we do specifically In relation to we like the switches. We like the access points. We do not like the routers We do not like any of the routing udm pro usg usg pro insert whatever the new one that may be coming out We're not big on any of those but as far as their switching goes we find them to be quite reliable Relatively reasonably priced. They're not the absolute cheapest thing you can find, but I think they do a pretty good job We've got these deployed in quite a few places not many of these Specific pro aggregation switches because they're relatively new, but we do have some projects upcoming. We're going to deploy these We've consulted with a couple of times with people who have been using them and didn't have any problems for their particular use case Read through all the documentation spend a little bit of time in the forums if you have a More than basic use case or you have some really in-depth layer 3 routing requirements that you're hoping to do Is as I said in the beginning the layer 3 and it's kind of rudimentary with unify It's more of a checks the box to make the marketing people happy But doesn't give you some of the advanced controls you're going to find on a really High-end enterprise switch, but of course you're not paying the high-end enterprise switch price for a unified So uh, good and bad with it as always If you like to buy one you head over to unify directly We are not a reseller of unify and unify did not send me this I did buy it as I said in the beginning So there's no real bias other than I guess I'm biased because I like unify and we deploy a lot of it And we've had great success with deploying everything from ap's and switches that the routers the routers are terrible Don't buy it. Don't buy anything from unify as far as routers go. I just can't recommend it They're better than I guess home user stuff But I see that a lot but people keep buying them and keep asking why they won't do the thing that they hope They would do and yeah, anyways, I won't rant about that. All right. 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