Ubiquiti UniFi Switch - 48 Ports Managed (US-48-500W),White

I've been a fan of Ubiquiti products for a few years now, deployed in our environment is their surveillance systems and UniFi access points. I've been wanting to try out their switches since I found out about them and I finally got my chance. We have two of these that'll be sitting right next to each other in a rack. The first thing I noticed pulling them out of their boxes is that feel well made, the dog ears are permanently attached and are a thick metal. Ports are neatly labeled and clear, status lights are clearly identified for speed and PoE status. Plugging these in I discovered that they're incredibly quiet, over the normal office noise of ventilation systems, standing about 6 feet away I can hardly hear their fans running. I'm sure they'll ramp up once a load is applied to them but idle they're very quiet.I'm also impressed by their ease of configuration. I'm coming from a series of Netgear ProSafe switches which weren't too bad to configure but their GUI was dated and clumsy. The fact that these switches configure from the same controller as their access points is a plus in my book. It means less work on my part as the switches are already aware of all the VLANs we use for our wireless networks and pick them up with zero effort on my part. Using the two SFP+ ports I wanted to create a LAG group with dual 10Gb connections running between the two switches. Creating that LAG group on the ProSafe switch took several minutes just because of how slow they were and how convoluted the process was. With the UniFi I went into one port, set it to aggregate, then told it the other port I wanted it to aggregate with. It literally took less than 30 seconds.Next month the switches will be going in place and replacing their Netgear cousins. Then the true test begins, did I configure them right, how will their longevity hold up. Ubiquiti's 1-year warranty made me a tad worried as the Netgear's had a lifetime warranty, are about 6-years old and have been stable as a rock. I'm hoping they just do 1-year to keep costs down but the hardware is still built to last. Only time will tell.

This worked well and replaced two switches and works great. Very happy with the purchase

Great switch, but the lack of a built-in web interface makes it a little less convenient to configure. The configuration app needs to be installed on a Mac or PC – which then gives you a great UI, full control and configurability, and real-time stats. But would be nicer to have this built-in to the switch... Once you use the management UI, you can see why they did this – it is meant to seamlessly administer an entire network, not just one device. So if you install all Ubiquiti router, switch and access points, it allows you to configure them all from a single tool.

I bought this switch to replace an older HP I had as my network core. I have not regretted it. The ability to provide POE to any point on my network is incredibly convenient. No more re-patching cables to get POE where I needed it or messing around with injectors. The UI is also super clean and easy to understand. If you're already using the Unifi ecosystem, this is a great addition.

Ubiquity makes a Quality product at a great price, I couldn’t be happier and will use them anytime I can.Powerful POE, adjustable voltage output per port is a great feature.

Installed in a Cisco Catalyst/Unifi mixed environment and so far couldn't be happier with performance. Powers the Unifi line of APs (non-pro that need passive PoE), as well as the UAP Pro APs just fine. Handles trunk ports just fine from Catalyst switches, and auto-detects uplink/downlink ports to other Unifi devices which is nice, but hard to find uplink ports to non-Unifi devices. This is good for client-access switches, but not much more, we use stacked catalysts at the core/mdf of each building.Installed Unifi controller on 1core 512mb ram Debian VM and does just fine.1 star off for lack of utility in the Unifi software and control compared to higher end switches. Otherwise, we are buying more to save money.

Unifi products keep getting better and better. Their controller software is where it is at. The latest stable release at the time of this review is 5.6.22 and it offers so many features for what you are getting. It is amazing what these things can do. Now they are not fully fledged Cisco equipment, however that is not the goal of this product in my opinion. We have this switch powering 5 AP AC In Walls, 6 AP AC Pros, 15 Grandstream devices, and this thing still has so much more headroom for POE.

A solid switch made amazing by the controller. Easy to configure, well behaved, and provides great diagnostic data. Couldn't ask for more.Actually, yes I could; Sticky addresses. My old HPs could remember a set # of MACs per port and only allow those to forward packets. It's really my only quibble with an otherwise amazing switch, but it still is a quibble; it doesn't support this functionality.