2
submitted 2 weeks ago by stoy@lemmy.zip to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

We are looking at upgrading our network equipment from old HP switches and Aruba access points, we have a Fortinet firewall that we are happy with, so we'll probably keep using them there, but for the rest we are looking for new stuff.

And we are looking closely at Ubiquiti for switches and APs, but two things have appeared on our radar.

Ubiquiti does have a cloud admin UI, this means that Ubiquiti needs to have access to our network controller to access this feature.

But what if we don't use that, will Ubiquiti still be able to access the network controller?

I guess that what I am asking is how does the access control work?

Also, updates, I see that they seem to be very frequent and also see some scattered reports that they have required admins to reset their configs and loosing camera footage, can you set updates to be delayed for X days?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you very much for a very thorough run down of the system, we are based in the EU and are trying to make sure that we have as few mandatory ties to US manufacturers as possible while running a modern IT system.

We have thought about MikroTik and Extreme but our CTO wants us to investigate Ubiquiti as it has a nice web UI for all devices on the network which would be a big advantage for our small network.

I will push for a small POC network or demo so we can get a better understanding of it.

[-] RelativeArea1@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thats understandable and fair, some US/publicly traded companies are kinda nutsy nowadays.

At first I was also drawn with Mikrotik but setting them up is a bit...yea, I'm not thrashing them, it just made me realize "do i really want to spend a lot of time setting this up?"

but don't get me wrong, they're amazing. I've seen my cousin doing his ISP business with 1000+ clients using their CCR line up and the cost to perf ratio is crazy.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I have a small Milrotik home router that I opened once, checked out Winbox for 15 min, realized I was WAY out of my depth and got an Asus router instead, this was about 8 years ago though, so things may have changed.

At this moment we are not really big enough to justify a dedicated network tech, which is why Ubiquiti have caught our eye.

this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
2 points (100.0% liked)

Sysadmin

10538 readers
2 users here now

A community dedicated to the profession of IT Systems Administration

No generic Lemmy issue posts please! Posts about Lemmy belong in one of these communities:
!lemmy@lemmy.ml
!lemmyworld@lemmy.world
!lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
!support@lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS