 Tom here from Lawrence Systems, and we're going to talk about the Unify 24 port pro PoE switch right here Gen2 If you want to learn more about me or my company head over to LawrenceSystems.com If you'd like to hire a short project, there's a hires button up at the top If you'd like to support channel in other ways your affiliate links down below for products and services We talk about on this channel and today we're talking about the Gen2 Unify PoE Pro 24 port switch with two 10 gig ports over here. Do you have one of the little dust caps out of it? So I opened it up first. We've already updated firmware made sure it worked, etc I do those things and I wanted to start talking about the physical layer here So let's talk it. Let's take it apart which I did and talk about the components inside of here So we have a couple heavy gauge cables here. I noticed to Facilitate the PoE. We have this connector here now I don't or have I should say I have not spent a lot of time on this but what this is is a connector if you have the Power supply rack mountable power supply system for Unify This allows you to plug them in so instead of using the onboard power supply I believe it creates a redundancy in the power supplies. It's like I said not something I've a lot I spent a lot of time researching but novel if they've added that it's if you have a whole ubiquity sack And you get their USPS part that would be part of it as well We'll talk about that more and we'll look at that product when we get to the software part We have one large heat sink here. This should be for the switching heat sink But the power supply is interesting in this now. They're right about it being quiet design and this Right here. We've got a heat sink here, but what this is is kind of interesting Take the lid and show you These to help dissipate this brings the heat out of those chips and dissipates it into the metal body, so we are dissipating heat using the Casing as a giant heat sink. That's pretty cool We've got these two fans in the front and like I said, this is quiet. We'll we'll have it on and do a sound check on that ports So we have the same that we have on the gen 2 Series the little display that's a touchscreen so we can get in basic information on there we have 24 ports and It's interesting because they're not all PoE plus some are PoE plus the other ones are PoE plus plus So you kind of have a mix on here and I'll break that down in the software as well But it's probably a little bit small to see in a video with the ports over here. They're marked Clearly plus plus plus plus plus so this little group of them right here are PoE plus plus And then we have the 10 gig and I like I said, I have one of the dust covers out now the SFP plus 10 gig Minor thing that I really Wish they did on all their switches and it's just it's a dust cover So I know these are aftermarket you could find these these dust covers are flat So they don't stick out and that's fine because I can get my fingernail under them And I actually like it because we have dust covers that are jammed in from when the switches get set like this So I kind of like these flat plastic ones better But there's going to be someone who probably doesn't like them because well They're flat plastic and are harder to get out But it was easy enough take it apart just a few screws help holding it in on the sides here It does come with rack ears and things like that. So that a big deal But inside it looks nice looks clean inside big power supply keeps it nice and quiet. All right Let's go ahead and put it back together so we can turn it on and it's a little tricky when you're putting it together Because those little rubber pads the thermal transfer pads I don't know if there's a rubber whatever material they're made out of the thermal transfer pads When you slide the switch apart it can be a little bit difficult when you're sliding it because it's like it Gets not really stuck on them But they obviously they're quite kind of sticky to do their job to make good contact So other net will get this assembled and we'll turn it on and start talking about the details One other comment I'll make is this does come with the rack ears of course so you can rack mount it But I like the packaging they're using now for all the little screws and the rack and the rack nuts that they have in here So you got rack nuts some screws to mount them in there and Just nice packaging and if you were going to use this and just set it on desktop You've got some sticky feet to put on there like the other gen 2 switches It has a cool little boot animation on this display and we'll fast-forward to this little boot process Once booted the display is much the same as it was on the previous one So we'll go here you can see which ethernet ports are plugged in you can look at the speed system memory temperature PoE wattage and you slide through these and it's got nice up-downs settings for changing the brightness It's it's really something I'm gonna say is kind of handy. It tells you what the IP address is what the uptime is Hardware us pro 24 and software version it's on I actually really like these being on here I mean you should know what's in your stack But when you have a large stack of them and you want to just look at things really quick It is nice the fact that it has this if you touch the middle it goes back out in previous videos I said I didn't have a way to measure the ambient sound and thank you Jason who sent this and mailed it over to our Studio here very happy. We have the ability. I am substantially louder in terms of decibels than this But true to their word like they said with it unified. This is a very quiet And I'm seeing like 43. I think that's I don't know that it's even picking that up I think it's picking up the ambient where the sound floor is in the studio This thing is is absolutely quiet now Someone's going put it under load put it under load. Yes. I know under load. It's going to get noisier I am going to try to figure out I get it next time. We're doing one of our large setups I'm going to plug everything in here and try to put it under a heavier load to see What it does. I just don't have the ability to do that right now It's going to be in the future when we're doing some testing with because this is going to go in here for our lab So let's talk a little bit about the software specs and the details on this So here's their list of gen two switches like one we're looking at right now is the us w pro 24 poe gen 2 450 watt So here's the some of the specs and it's Got a 60 watt 802.3 bt and that supports 17 24 That's your poe plus plus and ports 1 through 16 are just 803 af at and then the 2 gig The 210 gig sfp plus ports that are right here and a list price of 699 is their msrp for this 379 for here now the previous one I had mentioned I purchased this one was provided as a review unit that we get to keep from unify So we did not pay just full disclosure here We did not pay the full price for it But frequently you can find these on discounts if you can find them and I say that because We we ordered them and we have more clients asking about them And they're apparently some scarcity at the moment of this video when I'm recording it So it's February 2020 they seem to be a little bit slower to get that could change at any time I'm assuming they're just ramping up stock and because it's a new new product They take longer before they really fill the market and get them available to people but they are coming out with them So other than that the one other thing I'll mention and I'm just not sure about this and here's all the other stuff I'll leave links to this. It's not hard to find on our website But it's something that a few people commented on that I don't have an answer for It does say in a future release they will offer and I believe it's up here at the top Layer three switching capabilities, but they're kind of vague on that. I will call them out on It does it support, you know inter VLAN routing I've seen someone comment before that it can be done, but it's not supported in the UI yet So I don't have much information or I'm going to dive into that until it's officially supported because my understanding It doesn't survive reboots. Like there's ways you can go into the system. I've been told by people I've seen this in forums It's not something that I would say use in production at all because until it's officially supported by them It's not something you should use in production Now in terms of how it looks inside the unify controller It looks like any other other switches I didn't see anything other than the fact that just like the other gen twos you have the ability to also Change some settings on the little screen like the brightness And there's the option to synchronize all the screens together if you're using a series of gen twos This software is pretty much the same as the other unify controller It has the standard information board revision things like that It does have the fan level displayed in here and the current temperature that the switch is running at So those are features that are in here uplink activity where it's uplink to any down links if there's other switches behind it client lists And the ability to configure the ports and as you can see they're clearly labeled in here It just says poe plus but when you plug something in I plugged in a Unify nano it tells you how many watts it's using and these ports are clearly labeled Just like they are on the front of the switch poe plus plus versus these ones just being poe plus But it's easy enough to go in name things change the settings Of course l ldp is supported in here spanning tree Topology change notification and egress rate limiting is supported inside of here So like I said pretty much the standard suite of Features that you get with the unify controller with the majority of all their switches We have under general we called it shiny new gen two. We named them as they come out of the box whatever name gets stuck Which is why the other one says 10 g sf po and uh the using dhcp Managed services uh all the other features like I said force provision forget this device all the same things I didn't Find anything particularly interesting in here that was different than any of the other systems Does have terminal support and a stats spot right here So nothing nothing really groundbreaking in terms of that when I looked in the soft drive it But I like these switches. I think they're pretty slick now. The last thing I want to talk about is The usp rps power redundancy I'm not sure and I did not ask ubiquity specifically about this But their general policy is they ask us with the early access things not to talk about them Well, I'm perfectly fine with adhering to that where I am at a quandary of is the usp Rps power redundancy that is talked about on the box of a released product is not a released product yet So I can't really talk much about it But I wanted to mention it and for those of you that agree to terms and conditions of not talking about And posting videos or whatever about the Early access stuff you can find more about it But I will mention it's what that connector is for on the back publicly disclosed on the public side of their site And I'm not going to switch over to it. So that's why I wasn't really sure how to Um address that I always respect the you know these I work with these companies and respect their terms and conditions If they say not to do it I'm not afraid to call companies out when they do something that is confusing and I've talked about like data collection before But I will mention at least in this I am confused as to how to talk about a feature that is talked about on these as a feature of the gen 2 switches But it's also in the early access thing. Maybe someone from ubiquity will Send me a notice about that for maybe a clarification They have been kind enough that like I said to send this to me for as a demo unit. I get to keep it I'm excited about that. So we'll actually be moving it over to our lab rack here And doing some testing or maybe move it to the back We haven't decided where it's going to end up living, but I'm going to test it over time for things like this And for those of you that have seen before on my channel, we do some larger ubiquity installs Therefore, I want to load this up with a whole lot of things and it'll be some future videos on our next project When we have something to plug into it and get that all set up But my overall on this I do like the switch. I think it's a nice product I feel as though it's well built well designed and my overall feeling on all the ubiquity switches has been pretty positive For as many as we have out in the field. We've seen really really low failure rates I'm hoping that continues with the Gen 2 series because there's some people that pointed out some of the other earlier model ones like the eight port I can't remember how many watts it was but one of the eight port ones We have one at the in the in our office here and that one does run hot Uh, and that's one of the reasons they with these gen 2s they focused on the cooling But outside of running hot provided you have an adequately adequately cool place that these are installed We haven't really had problems them Even when you run out we have seen weird issues with them So it is cooling is obviously important But I think that goes really for any networking hardware or computers when they start having to run the fans full tilt to cool off Because they're in too hot of a room. Uh, this is a problem for really any electronics So cooling is is critically important And with this gen 2 and having the way the heat dissipates through the metal case It's a pretty heavy amount of metal here. So it's gonna it should I'm guessing I'm not a physics engineer here. I'm guessing it's going to spread the heat fairly evenly across here to help dissipate it So it shouldn't be too much of an issue But it's been running for a little while it it's not running much load and as you can tell it's still really quiet And it's still even with the decibel meter Right up against the back of it. I'm only hitting like 45 on this So I'm not going to say that it's much of a loud switch. So they are true to the word on it being quiet Uh, it seems like another good performer from unify it I really, you know, one of the big advantages of unify is that management platforms the unify controller software Which of course works wonderful with this and all their products tied together So all that all that being said, I'm positive on the product. I do like it. I would give it my recommendation But there's going to be some people who think it's a little bit pricey And yeah, it would be nice if they lowered the price a little because 6.99 For only two 10 gig ports. I'd love to have seen four 10 gig ports on there that would have been really great But having poe plus and poe plus plus on a lot of the ports that is a big bonus there. So You've got to you got to weigh it all out there more 10 gig ports. I definitely would love I'd love actually some 10 gig rg 45s on there as well But those two any switches that have those it definitely steps the price up a little bit more But yeah, that's the trade-offs and that's where we're at. Thanks And thank you for making it to the end of the video If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like youtube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to laurance systems.com fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com Where we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general Even suggestions for new videos. 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