Background: I work as a sort of a MSP business - more "devops as a service" really. All work is related to dev teams. Some of my clients / partners have growing needs, are starting for form a call centar / sales team, or any other structure involving a large number of business users, so I wanted to be able to offer support. I have experience with Cisco networking gear, but know this is out of their price range - so I wanted to take a look at Ubiquiti, mainly due to a lot of positive comments on reddit.
Decided to mak a small config for my office, and have a whirl - since I have a new office and need some networking gear anyhow. Ended up with a small setup, like this:
- Ubiquiti Unifi Cloud Key
- Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway Pro 4
- Ubiquiti UniFi Switch16 150W
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Ubiquiti Unifi AP AC Lite
So, I called my old contacts from the enterprise world, and asked for a quote. The answer I got, after a few rounds was :
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Enterprise resellers don't do Ubiquiti.
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They do Cisco Small Business, and will do a nice discount, if you press for it a bit.
So, I got a counteroffer :
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Cisco RV340
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Cisco SG250-26HP
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Cisco WAP 371
The router has less capacity, but this is a L3 switch (albeit with static routing, but I don't need more then that), so I don't need router on a stick. Other than that, we have :
Pro :
- Config is decent, nothing missing compared from Ubiquti.
- QoS is present on the switch, which to me is a better solution.
- Security is as-good, can be upgraded to be better
- Warranty on Cisco is better, and Cisco will be much harder to fail, compared to the fact that Ubiquiti has one distributor in my country.
Cons :
- Advanced security needs a subscription, but you do get a lot with that.
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DPI is missing, but I have no idea how much can Ubiquiti DPI help identify traffic, if you factor in that most stuff will be https in any case.
Maybe it's my background, and years of experience, but I'm tending to favor Cisco again. This small business line is very competitively priced... I'd love to hear some comments tough, there must be a something I'm missing - and why people favor Ubiquti.
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