 So I have in my hands a few of the Unify devices that they offer right now in 2018 because the question comes up all the time Which Unify should I buy? Well, let's talk about that. I don't have everything in stock I don't have any of the inwall units and stock to show you those We're gonna jump to the website in a minute here and talk about some of the details But we're gonna go over what you have what I have here and kind of get you an idea Which ones to buy what they look like now I have the Unify AC mesh I have the Unify APACLR and Unify ACHD. This is their pro business line You're probably going which one do I need to put in my house or which one do I need to put my business? Which one do I need to put in my office? There's a lot of different options here and that's what we're gonna kind of discuss is which Unify is right for the job Now I've talked about this before but the video is old and Unify is a very forward thinking company And they just keep coming up with new amazing products now my favorite thing is yes They still support we still have stuff from 2013. That's still getting firmware updates There's not a lot of companies that support things for that long I've been really impressed with the long-term support that they've offered on these Without charging you for contracts. That's something unique about the way Unify works as a company They give you the software for free so you can manage it you can host with them They have their cloud management systems you can do you can get the controller and host it all yourself Which is what we do which is my preferred method You can host it at your home and just run it when you want to now The nice thing is all this Unify equipment that we have here all runs on the same Unify software same software runs all of them And the same software can all of them at the same time so you can easily migrate go You know I think I needed this but then I added this but then I had like 500 users So I needed this you didn't have to change software matter of fact You don't have to change devices they will work with this one as well So you can have an office or your even house laid out with a lot of different Unify devices One management platform for all of them, which is one of the reasons we really like Unify as well It unifies all the management of these Wi-Fi devices Now I'm gonna answer a question a lot of you are asking right away because this is a common question with Unify is But I just want to work it at my house. What if I turn my controller off? What if I don't want to buy a cloud key earning that once you program these they are smart enough to keep operating and hand out Wi-Fi to devices and work the things you lose when you don't run a Unify controller consistently is not the functionality of the device But any type of telemetry for the vice devices smart enough to do its job Not smart enough to really give any telemetry doesn't have storage in these that's part of the concept of the way they built these They did not put a ton of storage in these to do the device They take all the data and pump it to the controller But in in the event that the controller is not functioning or you turn it off because you're rebooting it for any reason and for example We take our controller down to do upgrades The Unify's keep working fine. They keep handing out IP addresses There's just a gap in any data or analytics that you may be getting from these Unify is very unique in The way they design this at least what I've seen maybe there's other companies copying them But they've done this for a while and it's a really smart way to design the devices It makes the devices less expensive and from a business standpoint Because these are generally less expensive and some of their commercial counterparts We keep plenty of them in stock based on what we installed at our clients So we always have a few at the ready on the chance that one of them goes bad or there's a problem with them The devices are inexpensive We can pre-program and match them to their network and just swap out the ones there That being said we have deployed Thousands of these and rarely matter of fact, we've only ever had a brick go bad I I am still amazed at the statistics for how many of these we've taken out and how few of them are dead Which for us is not I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I've seen people say they died So let's jump into talking about which devices are right for you These are really slick. These are the apac mesh and I was confused when he first came out Well, I'm like, do they only do mesh? No, they have a mesh mode matter of fact All three of these devices in front of you have a mesh mode And all that means is they will support meshing wi-fi and if you're not fair what that is You can spend a few minutes googling, but the short of it is you can power this unit up And when it's already been programmed first when it is hardwired and then you want to switch it to mesh mode It can grab the five gigahertz signal off of one of these And bring it in and then broadcast out 2.4 and give wi-fi So it meshes on the five broadcast on the 2.4 This is good and bad in my opinion whenever we can We put a wire to the switch for every single unified device That's the preferred way to do it. You're going to get the best performance Once you start hopping across meshes, you are going to lose a little bit of performance That's just the nature of it. We are going to do a mesh video coming soon So I'm not going to get too in depth on that But we've done some testing with it We have a scenario where we're going to be meshing them and we're going to do a whole project video on that later But these apac meshes they are great. They work really well If they're small they're weatherproof. That's an important factor So we've even put these in some people wanted they have a pool house and we're putting these in By the pool we have a golf course that we installed a couple of these on now And they want golfers want wi-fi apparently that's necessary when you're out there But they are weatherproof they come with this they come with a little I'm going to move this up right back here Sorry for the noise they come with a couple mounting brackets So you can mount them pretty easily They come with a little rubber grommet that goes in here And my favorite thing compared to the old versions that we've used to these this And why is this matter you wonder? Well, maybe we have climbed up a large Pole to put these on and maybe you slid this off and maybe it fell And maybe you had to climb back down and up the pole This saves you from that and all it really is is a little piece of plastic So when you pull this out before you snap the network in It keeps it from falling all the way back down to the ground So you snap this in you put the little rubber grommet in they all come with some drywall screws So you can mount them And then you mount this bracket and then is clip in Oh, I'll show it like this I'm being clumsy Yeah, there we go So you mount the bracket this clips in now it's mounted There's a little button you press right a little button you press down on this little piece of plastic that unlocks it And away you go really simple design Really easy to go up and mount these and then to snap these on And you put the little rubber grommet in here and you run your network cable through the rubber grommet Crib it together and away you go you you're all set to run these outside And you can put these, you know, wherever wherever works for you And like I said, these are really nice little units They have an 8 they have a little bit higher version like some E2 website We'll talk about these but this is smaller ones and they work really well Now these are the real common ones you recommend for people in their homes These are have an MSRP of around $109. We've caught them on sale for less many times These are the APACLRs really Nice simple devices now just to give you a direct comparison. They're not as big as these HDs So they're reasonable. They do set a little bit taller of a profile not much, but they're reasonably compact They all have the same little mounting bracket on the these ones to the APCALRs Where you take this you can stick this to the ceiling and Bracket it down now the holes in it hard to see because I don't have my Close-up camera, but they're slightly recessed so you can put a couple screws in here Bolt it to any type of ceiling it comes with drywall screws as well And what these drywall screws allow you to do is bolt it right to the ceiling Put the bracket on there. You just push it twist lock done and they stuck to the ceiling Now in the case that you have a drop ceiling, which is really really common in offices here in the us And I imagine a lot of other places as well And if you're not feeling like to drop ceiling tiles, we have one here They come with these brackets and these long screws now what these brackets and long screws do Is this plate sits on the other side because if you were to screw into that The drop ceiling tiles, they're not strong enough to hold it Well, they kind of are but it don't do it because it's a bad idea These come with nuts and long screws You drew you put this on top of the tile you bracket on the other side and it lines right up So you sandwich it together Like so And that's going to give you the mount to be really solid and stay in a ceiling tile that being said The ceiling tile mounts are really fine for these. They're don't weigh that much So we haven't seen any issues with them But anytime you deal with ceiling tiles, just so you know be careful Especially if you're dealing with really old ones or some of them are made of like a Fiberglass like fabric. So before you do the jobs or look at it make sure they can support that Uh, type of device being on there that just something to think about whenever you're putting these Wi-Fi's in Now especially when we get to the last one here the the ACHD Now this is a lot heavier And so if you have this in a ceiling tile and that ceiling tile is not one strong enough You want to think about that or put it closer not in the dead center of the steering tile Maybe offset where there's a little more support on the corners or have it in a plastic ceiling tile Some of the places I've seen have those where there are a lot more solid and can handle more weight But that's something to consider when you're doing these is making sure it's solid mount because this weighs a lot more The weight's on there. I don't tell you exactly. I'll look it up in the specs But you can find it on there. So these are a little bit heavier Now the brackets are not the same on this being that it's bigger. So it just has a bigger bracket Compared to the smaller bracket of this one. Now, there's a couple different ACHD models and we'll talk about those in a couple of these But the brackets on this line the smaller one are the same and the brackets on the larger one Are pretty much the same but every one of these can come with a bracket So no matter which one you buy you get the bracket with it That's just part of what's included in there and of course with the bracket you get the heavier duty mounting plate So, you know, this is it's pretty solid. All right Now the power bricks Pretty straightforward. They're gonna come with a power brick on there and something I like These are the new versions of the unify power bricks the very original when we were doing these years ago Uh, didn't have this as a matter of fact, the old ones are black and now the newest ones are white They have this and all this has a little mounting plate So you can screw this to the wall real easy You don't have to use a template or anything. It's not like those little offset screws, which I always try to be nuts But uh Snap and this can mount right to your wall and you have it's a short cord But generally you're putting this somewhere, you know right where a plug is and we a lot of times will put all The devices if we're putting a few of them in we'll put them on if they don't have a poe switch We'll put them on just one power strip and then we put a note above it This will reset the unify devices for people who ever have to reset them It's a handy tip if you're installing a lot of small businesses where you put like two or three units in They don't have a poe switch. We just put a little note above it This will reset the wi-fi if there's ever reason to that way you can just tell them to Power it off power it back on and they're all plugged into one now. This is a 24 volt for This unit here And this is the bigger 48 volt brick now That's something you really have to keep in mind when you're doing these is when you're mounting The brackets whoops, I got a piece there the when you're doing these The different bricks go to different units. So you have a 24 or 48 volt unit You can look that up before you buy them each one comes with these unless you're buying the bulk packs I've seen some of the bulk when you buy like five at a time of these like some of the quantity purchases Read the fine notes that they may not have this now We're fine with buying the bulk packs when they don't because a lot of times when we buy in bulk We're buying a lot of them at once and for a large install and in that case We're going to put a poe switch in now unify has and I'll find a link and leave it in the description Below and you can google it because they keep a nice up-to-date one They have which poe switches support which devices from unify whether they're not your poe switch supports it Well, you're just going to have to look because each one of these does have the specs on there in terms of the power needs of each one and which Power over ethernet they need so that's a very important aspect for each device you're looking at Like I said, they all come with different power They'll come with a power brick and the the unify acc does need the larger one, but it comes with it But just think about that when you're doing your planning You also have to do planning on wattage If you may know when you're looking at poe switches and unify has those on there as well Well, if you're going to put a bunch of these in one switch Think about how many watts and it's listed for each one of these that you're using and making sure you Plan accordingly that you have enough power to support all the devices that you're going to hook up And one thing I missed because it was on top of it is this has a different type of bracket as well So you have a pole mount bracket or an outside flush mount bracket The flush mount bracket has a cool little level in it so you can Decide if it's level so it looks right when it's on the wall not that that makes a huge difference on there But yeah, these these are really neat. We're really happy with these devices in terms of how they work Like I said, we got video coming up on the details and review of these All right now Let's jump over to the website so we can talk about some of those specs and details that really matter with these So you can really finally make a decision which one you want and they will talk about the msrp pricing on these So see what fits your budget and use case scenario All right, we'll start with the first thing that I said is yes, they all work on the same System and for example, this is our LTS test site that we have and you can see that all these are in here And yes, one of them does say in Marvin's car because that was part of a video we have up and coming So it's a sneak peek in that that we were meshing cars together. What's going to be for our mesh video But here's an ac lr. Here's the ac mesh. Here's another ac mesh. Here's an ac mesh. It's not plugged in right now It's actually in someone else's car, uh, even though it says in the office And uh, here's the super cool wi-fi Which is the uap ac hd and like I said one dashboard for all the devices This is the beauty of unify when you want to expand on here You don't have to get a different controller for each one or even different controller software to manage an enterprise device Or a home device and I say home device But technically they're all enterprise devices but a lot of people like these ac's and ac lr's at their houses I have one. I think it's a great device All right, so let's jump into the details of the different devices and the in the technical specs that I know people are wanting So we'll start with the hd now They do have a new one coming out called the nano hd and I'm going to pause here for a second to talk about it Even though it's not completely released. It's a slightly smaller a little bit less than performance It supports 200 concurrent users versus the ac pro which supports 500 But it's skinnable. That's neat and you could blend it in with the environment It comes in camouflage that you may want if you have a camouflaged Unify unit. You probably want to hit a hidden ss id in there. I'm just saying it seems the only appropriate way Just it's my humor as soon as I've seen that Um, but it's also kind of neat because it's going to come out with a recessed amount And like I said, these aren't out yet. Uh, I don't have any I think some people may have gotten some for some reviews But kind of novel because it you can recess mount them instead of flush instead of mounting them like the other ones do Which is more like this picture here pretty cool Pretty neat a little bit smaller That being said if you're interested in that one now, let's talk about like the ones we have here the a chd This is the one we talked about I didn't bother taking it apart because the unifies are a little bit difficult to take apart And I don't want to avoid the warranty because they're expensive Um, but the Unifies this is the exploded view so you can see inside of them. This is the one that we have here It does have the dual next now the reason it has dual network interfaces is for link aggregation. So you can Only get gigabit in on these they don't have a 10 gig circuit, but you can combine two together Now let's talk about some of the other details. They are ac wave 2 mu memo and you can Dig into some of this All the different Performance options they have the amu mimo as long as the devices themselves that are connecting to support all of that And here's some of the differences in the device. So because it supports up to that speed 1300 megabits a second That's why you need link aggregation. So you could actually get that many on there. I'm sorry Yeah, with this one and this one as well that's 1733 on the uap a chd Uh, you can't get that kind of performance obviously with one single Network cable This one supports up to 200 users 500 plus users on this now We have some of these and we're putting these in because they're actually going in a large event facility We're putting three of them in and picture that there's just going to be a ton of people there And whenever there's people at event facilities You want something I can handle because everyone has a device and if someone brings a tablet, let's say at a conference center You're really going to go. Okay. They're going to have a tablet They may have a laptop and they're going to have a phone. So one person can represent three devices So you have a hundred people you can have 300 devices if each person has three devices So these are really good for that really high density lots of people connecting Uh And they work can solve that problem now these ones here are not bad And like I said a little bit less money for 149 and still have a lot of those Features, but not quite as many users on there. So you got to think about user density when you're buying these Could you buy this for your house? Yes, would it make your house faster? Do you have that many devices at your house is the question? Sure, you could just go out and buy the biggest one now I'm not I didn't cover which is the uh, you know, I'm gonna skip this one, but they do have an ac edu Uh, it's kind of novel because it's got a speaker in it. So it's got a public address in in it So I guess if you want you could possibly use it in the office I've never used this before But kind of novel that it has that in there It's it's the same as some of the other devices, but it's got the that in there So let's jump to the next one the ac one. These are the ones I recommend for people in the home. So you got the ac light Dual rate dual rate of performance. It's still ac They're the smaller ones. This is great for home. This is what we've put in a lot of people's houses Especially the business owners. They will frequently will want something Just to get wi-fi in your house that works really well now depending on how the size of the house And density of the walls you may or may not want the ac l r for long range So you get the same specs a little bit more power a little bit more money. They're not substantially more So the msrp on this and we'll pull it back up over here So you go from 89 for the ac light long range is here when we get up into the ac pros There 149 now if you look at the ac pro It's only slightly different than the other ones. We do the model comparison down here Because when you get into the pro it's a little bit faster on the 5 gigahertz speed So you're going to do that. But in order to achieve these speeds These all have one single ethernet. These have dual ethernet. Once again, you're going to have to have a switch that supports lag integration So get a unified switch Is some there's other ones support it but unified switches do and lag integration on both of those So you connect both network cables to be able to achieve the full output of those speed on those So that's you know why you might want to buy these ones here is if you need the fastest you can get But the other side of that is do you have devices that can support that level of speeds? It's not just the That this device has supported you have to have all this support and a newer model laptop with the right support in there That's an important aspect. Just something to think about on here. And like I said as well They have these are 802 a3 af poe with 24 volt 24 volt And they have that listed for each model so you know the poe mode it supports So if you don't plan to use the power brick that comes with them You may want to use you know your own poe switch. Make sure you have the right one Now here's the mesh units now, they have a couple units in here This is the one we have in stock and this is the the mesh pro These are really cool. I'm I'm really impressed with how tiny these are their $99 msrp you can usually find them for a few dollars less the weather resistant outdoor enclosures And they're made to be outside now. This is the pro one Also weather resistant doesn't have the little antennas taken up because it's a little bit bigger of a unit And really good coverage range you get a little bit more range out of those So like I said, they're really impressive devices Whichever one you want to use like I said, these are a little bit more So it depends on if you need that bigger range that you get out of the more powerful device versus the basic device So they're they're both really really good for if you're doing something simple like we are with this one project We just bought the $99 ones and they really will suffice and if you just want Things like you know Wi-Fi in your backyard This is great put it outside Mount it even it's not they get to go very far just getting it outside of your house means you're going to get better coverage And by mounting it to the outside of your house on the side of the house running cable to it Maybe under your eave you'll get great outdoor coverage on this and uh, you know reaches all over the backyard I have a larger backyard and these these actually cover the entire thing really really well Now the last one is these in wall units and these are Unique and we have not installed any of these because we haven't had any use case for them, but we might Um hotels are kind of an ideal place for this And I actually had one of my tech friends that he's seen them and he said it worked great What this does is it very centralizes The installs because it actually installs just like the name implies in wall So you cut out like a standard wall Port mount and then you put the unify in it you poe power it and then you have these in the wall So if you're thinking about like a hotel for example, you have a really good way to Both put a network jack on the wall and put a wi-fi device in the room So this is one of the planning things when you're designing these and I like how they show the pictures in here With hotels obviously this is would be like a hotel layout where you way say i'll put them in a hallway Or I only want to put one here and one here or maybe one on this end and picture hotels being a larger area The guy in the corner kind of doesn't get as much wi-fi versus the person over here So these can also work with all the other ones and complement the wi-fi So you take them and put them in the corner rooms and say okay I got a wi-fi here for the lobby that covers maybe the rooms adjacent to it And you kind of do some planning with that, but then you can add a couple in wall units for those Hotels or maybe the nice suites that you have where you would go I want that guest to have excellent wi-fi you can put these in of course the same rule applies to putting these in an office Maybe in the boss's office You say I want to make sure he has great wi-fi in the c-suite office And maybe you put a couple of these in there now, please no they have a data jack as well So they do have a gigabit pass through so when you plug these in you're able to wire that in which is kind of cool So definitely definitely a neat option to be able to do these They are if you get the pro version of this There's they're both gigabit and they support the ultimate five Five gigahertz at 1,300 megabits So that gives you an idea of you know the use cases you may want to have for these you can use them in your house as well um Sometimes this is something i've seen where it was actually even in older houses It can be tricky to figure out where to put the wi-fi Because it's hard to get inside the walls and things like that so that can be tricky Something to consider that maybe you do have access to mount these in there and put them in your kitchen or whatever works Now unify does have some of the other consumer products like the amplify which is really nice Those are those are good products I've heard good things about them have not done any testing one So I can't give you a direct one-to-one comparison But we have find it for if you're somewhat technically minded and willing to go through The setup on these in loading the software to manage them Which not that hard to do plenty of videos on it to run on windows And you don't have to run it persistently Um some of these people we've seen just load it up configure the device and they don't care about any telemetry Or data collection from the device so they set it up and just use Use it as a wi-fi without any management. That is fine If I stop this controller software these devices will keep out with handing out wi-fi to Anything that connects to them. They'll still save the password. They do not contact the controller The only thing that you're going to miss is telemetry data and you're going to miss any advanced features like if you want to use it for example with a Captive portal or logins and things like that because that's functions handled by the controller not the device You may not you may want a controller for that But if you just go I just want to you wanted at my house No problem. No, you don't even need the controller running You can just program these and turn the controller on only when you want to You know upgrade the firmware or make any changes to it or collect telemetry data But aren't that that's kind of the idea of the unifies and which ones you should look at Like I said, this is april of 2018. So this is their current lineup And I'll show you something real quick here because we have one of the really old ones I'll switch over to our main site. So here's our unify the lts office wi-fi device That's been installed since around 2013. I think I have one here and I have one at my house They've been working forever Even though they're older models and yes, they only support 2.4 because they're so old They still have firmware updates for them and they still work. So that's really like I said Send something about the company when they support a product for that long All right, so hopefully this was helpful and picking out which unify device you might want to try at home or try in your office Like I said, we've been really happy with the product line. We continue to deploy them at many of our clients They've made it really easy to manage and you can see I've got a lot of other videos on everything from setting up these Unified devices to you know, how you manage all the clients check them out We've done so many projects with them. You can see some of the client projects and some of the larger scale stuff We've done with them. They they really do hold up. So like I said, hopefully this is helpful on getting and helping you pick out Which wi-fi Unify wi-fi device you may want to buy. 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