I need to replace a bunch of ancient Cisco stuff. Also looking at other brands like Dell, Juniper and Extreme
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I’ve used them for years, I don’t use the cloud features just as stand alone. I’ve treated them very poorly in high temp and dirty environments and found them to be extremely reliable.
I have an old Aruba and it works great. The GUI is a bit meh, but considering ive only had to use it once the past like 2 years, owell.
How’s that CLI? I doubt I would ever need a GUI
Only used Unifi and their stuff is pretty solid. Better than Meraki where you never truly own your hardware.
No CLI which is a deal breaker for me
They have one but the management is via the admin console.
No SSH?
What do you mean? I have a Unifi 24 poe switch at home and I feel like Ubiquiti could do whatever they wanted with it. If I had more time I would have chosen some device with OPNSense.
UniFi doesn’t need a license, you just buy the switch and install the network app. Meraki will totally turn off your network if you ever stop paying for a license.
You’re just renting their hardware until you stop paying for the license, then it’s an expensive paperweight.
Separate thread; how can Ubiquiti “do whatever they want with it”? You control the updates.
Well, the OS is their doing. If it has a backdoor, I don’t know. I don’t fully trust it.
That’s true of any closed source OS, of which I’m sure you run at least 2.
I use GrapheneOS, Bazzite & Aurora. I have a Chromecast though, I’m still deciding how to replace it.
I don’t believe you can use OPNSense on a switch. Switches are in layer 2 typically and have hardware that switches.
Technically you can run OpenWRT on some switches but it is still experimental and it is very much not enterprise grade
I’ve used their switches and access points extensively. Great stuff IMO. As someone else said, they’re similar to Cisco in syntax.
They also have all the high end features you’d need if you’re comparing to cicso and juniper.
Perhaps also take a look at Mikrotik
We have an extensive Aruba estate here (managed for us by the local authority). You have to be careful about licenses for management software. The authority weren’t so there are issues… Though that may be authority incompetence rather than an Aruba issue.
The other thing we have noticed is that they are very touchy indeed about 10mbps connections (cameras often need an intermediate unmanaged switch), and also will drop so-so 1Gbps links back to 100mbps at the drop of a hat…
Did you verify the wiring/fiber? That’s often the sign of a bad connection
