 Time here for more systems. We're going to talk about the UniFi XG6 POE switch and much like its name as implies It is a 10 gig POE switch from UniFi specifically POE plus plus now. 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All right now back to the content So let's quickly run down the tech and what this switch is. This is a 10 gig 6 port switch with 802 3 BT POE plus plus and it has an MSRP of 599 right here on the UniFi site Now a couple things about it. It has both DC and AC but the AC is provided via adapter So technically you're only feeding this DC power and they do include the power the AC power brick So I mean it does have that option on there And it's probably the more ideal way you're going to be powering it unless you have some type of DC rack set up Now these are kind of a niche use case in my opinion because The reason you need to switch like this is if you're building a large venue You need Wi-Fi at that large venue and you have multiple Comrooms that are kind of farther away from the main com room You run a fiber line all the way over there and maybe daisy chain through and have a fiber line Going in and out which is why you have two SFP plus 10 gig ports and then at each one of these locations Or even just if you just have one of them, however, you're designing this You would have these multiple unify AP XG units, which are 10 gig Connected or these base station XG's which we're going to use one that we have here for the demo Which also offer 10 gig connectivity now you can do 10 gig connectivity as long as you have a Compatible injector and yes, that is how like the base station I've reviewed before comes with an injector But this is the concept of not wanting to use injectors and actually power them off here Which are greatly convenient, especially if you've ever dealt with larger venues When you want to reset a device that's on the far end Well, if you have an injector you got to get someone to run down there And I'm plug plug it back in or when you're managing remotely It's really nice having it all in the PoE in the dashboard unify makes it really simple now in terms of other features The device has four one hundred one gig two and a half gig five and ten gig Rg45 ports so it supports quite a few standards all the way in between two SFP plus ports Which support one or ten gig and come something of note I don't think it matters too much But at least I did notice that I didn't say ten one hundred one thousand it starts at one hundred I'm guessing I didn't have a ten device to plug this into for Testing, but I'm wondering if it doesn't actually support ten meg devices But hopefully we don't have any ten meg devices we wanted to plug into this particular switch Now power consumption of the switch by itself maximum power assumption of 40 watts And it has an external two hundred and ten watt AC to DC adapter which is included on there And of course it's got the DC input option below now scroll down a little bit here Something of interest is it does have the ability to support up to 60 watts per port So that's a pretty decent amount of wattage that you can have pushing through there on a per port basis and four ports Well, if you got a couple higher end devices that you need that ten gig Speed along with that higher wattage such as some of the XGs and base stations and maybe some other devices You can come up with it does have support for that So really good on that support now. Let's take a look at the electronics inside of it now before I open it up I was assuming it was going to be passively cool But we have what's essentially a laptop looking fan here wired in nice and tight And there is as you can see the little connector over here for the fan the connector is kind of standard So this is a four wire fan if you had to replace it and it's just a connector It's not soldered in so that shouldn't be too hard to replace if that was ever a need In terms of connectivity on it as you can see we have the ports there But we also have and it's kind of small but labeled on the case itself a USB C Serial port serial to council port as well as the normal council port which is this one over here I like this one here and it works fine I did test it on my laptop and that made it easy to be able to go and connect in because I often carry USB C to USB C cables and many modern laptops are powered via USB C So usually have ports available on the back We have a 54 volt DC input for the standard power brick that they supply with it the 54 volt DC in if you wanted to power it that way now of note on the ground here They give you an extra screw and let me explain why so this is a non locking power adapter And obviously you're worried about maybe someone pulling on equipment and knocking the power out Which would be disruptive so when you plug in the power adapter and you could just slide it back out But with the extra screw included and the little clip they have with it You can put this little clip around here and attach it I'll show you real quick right here via the ground screw So this is really convenient being able just to put that on there And now you don't have to worry about the power cord getting you know yanked out And that's why the power cord is at a right angle because you would pull this ground screw out and ground it as well As they give you so like I said a slightly longer screw to be able to put this in was included with the kit now Unify sent this out up to us for review and of note Inside the kit they say rack ears come with it ours did not come with rack ears I don't know if this is because it was a demo from Unify or not But there were no rack ears in the box So I didn't reach out to Unify to ask them if it was just an oversight But something of note that I was looking at the back of the QA and the the label on the back that they have right here Is the test date was 10? 1918 so it could be that this is one of their Earlier models that was maybe prior to it being for public release that this device was Before when they were shipping and beta didn't have the rack ears in there not a really big big deal, but I Thought I'd mention it it was we don't have them to show you But the kit itself says it has the rack ears when I was looking through Unify's Product list of what came in the box, which is right here on the package contents So this is the only thing that was missing here was the mount bracket ears and the bracket screws But the other stuff did come in the box with it including a little cable clip like I've shown so really minor in terms of To us from a review standpoint, but I think it does at least leave it of note that those aren't in there So I can't show you what they look like. I don't know well. They probably look like that They're just rack ears. I don't think they're that big of a deal There's only two screws that hold this on and when I'm not clumsily doing things and talking It slides together relatively easy comes apart really easy too Just two screws in the back and I got the little clips on the side So once you line this up, it stays together really well, so let's fire it up do a quick test with it and talk about features All right So I have the switch connected and I went ahead and replace the ground screw with the provided screw they had to attach it this way and I feel as though this is really solid no one's going to accidentally pull This matter of fact we can probably Dangle it like this since I don't have any mounting brackets for it I have it connected here via a SFP plus and a One gig connected over here to This right here So this is a base station XG powered over the 10 gig PoE and to possibly infuriate someone I have used a thin one of these really thin cables. I've talked about before I'll leave a link to the review I did on those yes, you can power a base station XG without these cables melting for those of you That said you could melt the cables if you did so back to the review The SFP plus so we got 10 gig here and 10 gig here and now we're going to show the connection in terms of What it looks like inside of unified controller now adopting was easy it went and adopt it like any other unified device of note if you have a unified device and in the Adopt an upgrade option comes up and the device is numerous firmware versions behind actually maybe like a year or two Behind I have noticed the adopt an upgrade may fail You just do the upgrade first and then adopt and that solves that problem And occasionally I've seen some devices which I bring this up because this base station had been plugged in a while We had to do the upgrade twice the second time it worked perfectly fine It seems to only brought it up to a certain firmware did the upgrade again and brought it up to current firmware So that is of note But not really much of any convenience and in terms of the way it looks well It looks like the other unified switches with the similar nomenclature or green would be the 1,000 or 100 meg connection and 10 5 2.5 are all at the white color here So similar color coding as all the other unifies in terms of features which does show us how many watts per port Has the same options that you see on most unify where you can Limit storm control broadcast multiclass enable LDP med enables enable topology notification change STP and egress rate limiting now something that I don't know of is whether or not this device will ever have any layer 3 Capabilities and I didn't see anything specifically on it But as of right now in May of 2020 unified does not offer on their switches Switching capability in terms of layer 3 routing so that is not a feature and I don't know if that feature will ever come I know that seems to come up a lot as hey Can I do like inter VLAN routing at the switch level which would be kind of handy for something like this if you have Two VLANs and you don't want to you know bring it all the way back Via the SFP connection Maybe in your network layout and have the inter VLAN routing occur at the switch level that'd be nice But that's still as of right now in May of 2020 not a feature supported in the unified software But nonetheless, I still really like the device it for what you'd probably use it for that's kind of an edge use case What are not you'd need inter VLAN routing especially because I much picture this as the use case of setting up like a large Venue where you need Wi-Fi at very far areas of a venue and especially if it's an outdoor venue Let's say like a some type of outdoor field football field or something like that And you want to put run fiber to the far end of that field to be able to get some 10g connectivity to give the entire crowd guest access to Wi-Fi Interly VLAN routing is not something that is usually needed for that type of scenario But nonetheless the switch like I said adopted work perfectly fine didn't find any issues with it Everything else is unify after this. It's all the standard features now. It does have and this is kind of interesting It does support port mirroring. I know that sometimes I think might be a feature removed from very specific models But this does have aggregation and port mirroring as options on here. So those are Still features that are built into this. So my overall review on it if you have a specific use case like the four mentioned ones Or maybe some niche use case. I think this is a really great switch for the price. You get PoE You don't have to use any injectors. This makes it easier restart those Wi-Fi devices plugged in there Now for people saying I'm looking for a deal on a 10 gig switch for my home because I have a bunch of things connect This is less ideal the other unified 10 gig switch the XG 16 XG It's still more like where you may start and this is probably what you'd have in your main idea from feeding fiber to a series of These switches that as I proposed in that scenario like in a concert venue or some type of outdoor field venue Where you want to get Wi-Fi? So they kind of would work in tandem with each other and they are completely compatible if you wanted to do it that Way, so it's a great device It's it's a nice lineup a nice, you know all these little components that fit into building out a nice network for the Unify this is another little component to add to that list we didn't for those type of use cases Especially because if you're deploying a lot of these or the XGs You know putting a bunch of injectors in is less than ideal when you do a large-scale deployment So this is going to be kind of a welcome addition to that I'm wondering if they're going to have one that's a little bigger Is well because sometimes that comes up where you want to put a handful of those in and you need something A little more powerful, but this is not bad for the price. It's pretty good Pretty good deal. All right. 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