Ubiquiti USW Enterprise 8 PoE+ with 8 2.5GbE ports and 2 SFP+

Today's video reviews the Ubiquiti USW-Enterprise 8 port PoE+ switch, which has 8 2.5GbE PoE+ ports and 2 10GbE SFP+ ports. It has a 120 Watt power budget and integrates into your network independently or with the Unifi Controller. Though this is not fanless, it is silent under normal load conditions and uses temperature control to spin up the very quiet fans under harder conditions. This is a perfect complement to support Wi-Fi 6E, the upcoming Wi-Fi 7 access points, and PoE+standards cameras and other devices.
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[@pbrigham]

Great review, has Layer3 as well, so you can run DHCP server on the switch itself voiding the necessity of the traffic to be routed over the firewall making the communication of the devices connected to the switch even faster.Great product.

[@MikeFaucher]

Good point and thanks for your input and feedback.

[@pospitchp3416]

Hi, does it mean, that I can plug my ISP cable directly to this switch and use my UDR only as a console with a few extra ports? My idea is, that path from ISP to AP will be shorter. Or does it make any difference actually?

[@MikeFaucher]

@@pospitchp3416 You would still want to route through the firewall.

[@pawpaw7646]

Thanks, great review - clear, concise, excellent production quality (video, sound).

[@MikeFaucher]

Thank you for the feedback it is appreciated.

[@Pabula]

Nice introducction to the USW enterprise switch 8, imo its the perfect match for doing a deployment of medium size installation of U6-Enterpirse aps. Btw i didn't see listed the black qnap switch nor the injector you said where going to be in the descprition of the video.

[@MikeFaucher]

Thanks for the feedback and pointing out the missing links. I just added them in. Thank you.

[@edhead76]

Nice review. Seeing as some of these devices get a bit more specific and being a noob at network set up, i'm wondering if there are any good ubiquiti sources on how best to set up a layer-3 switch in contrast to the other components in the network.

[@MikeFaucher]

Great question but I have not seen any.

[@Solkre82]

There really is almost nothing to setting up layer 3. You can take any of your network and there's a button to convert it to layer3 if you have a switch for it. The software does the rest. Then you get a firmware update and it breaks so you give up using layer 3. lol

[@hofertyp]

Thanks for the review. Is there any similar Unifi switch which is rack mountable?

[@MikeFaucher]

Not in this price range. The closest is the new one (store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/products/usw-pro-max-24-poe). Thanks for the feedback.

[@Marco-vg4je]

On the website from ubiquiti is written: "Our Pro and Enterprise switch families support Layer 3 functionality". Is this switch also a L3 switch? Because its advertised as an enterprise product. Thank you for reply!

[@MikeFaucher]

Yes it does have some Layer 3 capabilities, but Ubiquiti treats Layer 3 slightly differently. That said, I believe that this has the same functionality as the other enterprise products. Hope that helps.

[@IndianaDiy]

I’m building a small home network cameras and WiFi. Would this be better than a big 24 port Poe switch if I’m only connecting some cameras, WiFi or a flex switch. I already have a UDM pro se but don’t want a giant network for just basic stuff. Was looking to use switch flex to run cameras back to this unit and then a fiber cable to main unit.

[@MikeFaucher]

This is probably an overkill for just cameras and would just use any of their lower cost 1G PoE switches. The main reason for this one is Wifi-6E/7 where the 2.5G is needed. Cameras do not come close to saturating even a gigabit connection.

[@IndianaDiy]

@@MikeFaucher Ah, okay. I’ll take a look into those then. I was mainly looking for a smaller switch don’t need 24 ports, but the standard non-pro switches should work fine too. Well, I should say I don’t think I’ll need 24 ports. I forget how many wired devices I have on smaller switches already.

[@sanjayb933]

Great review Mike, does the switch allow remote controller management, or that would require purchasing the unify cloud controller?

[@MikeFaucher]

You use their free software controller or their app to setup and configure. Thanks for the feedback.

[@AinzOoalG0wn]

70c? thats pretty high. my experience with temps was with an Asus AC68U which whenever it hits 80 ish temps, the speeds become slow and eventually the router will crash. 70c may still be within operatable tolerance but ... thats pretty hot compared to the switches i use these days that only hit 40-50c at most. maybe the difference in temp is your switch was under load? i only use 1 poe+ device by comparison ... hm that aside 2.5gbe and 5gbe will probably be what wifi7 would be needing (on both the wifi aps, the switches AND on your client device e.g. desktop pc) if they benchmarks in the media is to be believed.

[@MikeFaucher]

Yeah it is pretty high but normal for this switch. This is primarily the CPU. The fans kick in shortly after that.

[@LilUziDirt]

can i use this switch in this way... Ethernet cable from my ISP;s ONT straight into the wan port on the switch, will this work? will i have internet to the whole switch or no. thank you.

[@MikeFaucher]

Not usually. You need a firewall/router in between your LAN and WAN. Switches typically are not routers. Thanks for the question.

[@estusflask982]

Why is it plastic?

[@MikeFaucher]

It is not plastic it just looks it. It is very heavy aluminum painted white. Good point bringing that up.

[@TechInTheCityHonolulu]

I have a Business Class connection from my ISP that comes with 5 Static Public IP addresses. If I connected the connection from my ISP to this switch would n’t this switch be able to distribute the five Public Static IPs from the ISP to different routers? I have tried using inexpensive ($35 TP Link) 8 port Layer 2 unmanaged switches that were not able to do this. And I have tried slightly higher grade $160 Layer 2 managed switch that has worked well in this manner (even though I am not managing it). Any opinion on this switch? Or recommend another switch?

[@MikeFaucher]

This has layer 3 but I have not tested the configuration you are describing. It should work but i would post the question on the ui forums or Reddit for other options and recommendations.