Ubiquiti UniFi Switches Valuable Features
The most valuable feature of UniFi Switches is the simple management via the UniFi console. It is very easy to implement, and the straightforward management contributes to effective traffic management.
View full review »One of the most valuable features of Ubiquiti UniFi switches is their graphical interface and plug-and-play capability. They are software-configured and offer many PoE ports.
Additionally, the firmware can be updated, allowing the switch to adapt to new rules. We have not had any outages, and they have a standard interface that has evolved to support both their standard and other PoE standards in recent years.
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Saranjit Kainth
Head of IT at RD Tech
The UDM Pro and its network configuration features are most beneficial for network management. The UniFi controller software has greatly enhanced our ability to manage network configurations, providing almost eighty percent of what I wanted. The PoE capabilities are valuable as we utilize PoE for security cameras, Wi-Fi devices, and mini hubs.
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Ubiquiti UniFi Switches
March 2025

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Ubiquiti UniFi Switches are cost-effective, flexible to use and manage, and offer functionality similar to high-tier equipment like Cisco. They are compatible with any version of PoE-enabled device, whether AF or AT compatible, and allow control over power to PoE devices. The switches enable management from anywhere using the cloud controller, making configuration changes and management easier.
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The customers who buy the access points use the standard Ubiquiti management systems because they're freeware tools. We usually get all the requests and materials from the customer, who knows exactly what he wants.
View full review »The good thing about UniFi is that it makes deploying and managing the switches very easy. It creates its own ecosystem, so once everything is connected, you can manage everything from the UniFi controller. This makes life much easier. You don't have to go into each individual switch to configure it; you can do everything from one place. It saves a lot of time.
The features I've used have been satisfactory for my needs.
View full review »The product's easy integration with other Ubiquiti devices is a huge advantage. Wireless Access Points (WAP) can be managed seamlessly using Ubiquiti UniFi Switches. When updates from the vendor are implemented for the product, they fix bugs but also sometimes create issues with the devices connected to Ubiquiti UniFi Switches.
View full review »The best feature of Ubiquiti is the intuitive interface for managing day-to-day work. It is easy for the lower staff to understand. I can manage user connectivity, limit bandwidth, apply MAC address filtering, and it offers POE capabilities. The stability of UniFi Switches is commendable, and they offer peace of mind due to their reliable performance.
View full review »The controller is definitely one of Ubiquiti's key strengths. Also, the new feature where you can see what's connected to each port using the app is very cool.
It's very easy to deploy – much easier than MikroTik. It's very seamless and well-designed.
View full review »We like the centralized management of the switches. We like the fact that we can do all the management remotely on the cloud, without having to do a VPN into the client's infrastructure.
And, we found that the best solution for our typical clients, who are small to medium-sized, typically don't need the more expensive Aruba or Forti Switches, and those switches are just overkill for their environment.
So, we find that UniFi is a happy medium between consumer-type switches and enterprise switches.
UniFi switches improved our client's network management for multiple devices.
View full review »The most valuable features of the solution include its ease of setting up VLANs and port management.
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ScottWilliams
IT Resource Coordinator at SmartBank
Ubiquiti UniFi Switches typically stay up and running when they're up and running. The most valuable feature of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is that once you buy them, you own them. This feature is valuable, especially for smaller businesses or companies looking to save money. You don't need to pay a monthly fee to Cisco, HP, Aruba, or any other vendors. Ubiquiti UniFi Switches are really easy to do firmware updates.
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Candelario Dimas
Consultor at Importadora El Triunfo
The product's most valuable features include its robust performance and reliability. The latest models handle our current and future demands efficiently, and their integration with other tools has been highly beneficial for managing our network.
View full review »The central management is provided by the UniFi management system. You can manage everything from a single interface. The SDN mode that the entire unified system uses is a software-defined network format.
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Paul Traynor
Owner at Gallops Investments
It was recommended to me by an IT professional, so I went with it. He said, "It's a bit pricey, but it won't let you down." And it didn't, it's been working.
We have one or two UniFi switches, but they don't really compete with the Ciscos. It's a nice environment as far as keeping track of things and being able to manage ports, turn off rogue users, and stuff like that. The access points have been pretty convenient compared to Meraki, Lucent, Cisco, or any of the other bigger vendors that I used to deal with for other consulting projects.
Ubiquiti is one step above the consumer level. They cost a little bit more, but they just seem to be drop-dead reliable, and they're keeping up with the latest standards. Their latest versions of access points are all Wi-Fi 6, and they don't take very much power when there aren't a lot of users.
It's really easy to build one configuration and just apply it to new devices.
It's a check mark box: Do I want this to be the staff VLAN, or the public VLAN, or the Voice over IP VLAN, or the security VLAN, or the house wiring VLAN, or the building logistics VLAN? You just check things off and then you make groups, so if you click on it, it applies all the appropriate things automatically. It makes it very easy.
This solution is good for the prosumer, small office, medium office, under 500 people range, but probably over 50 people and maybe distributed around five or 10 sites. That's a pretty good sweet spot as far as the price for the equipment and the configurability, and it's just drop-dead reliable. It's been boring, which is what I love because I don't get any calls in the middle of the night that something isn't working.
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Edgard Chognika
Technician at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Managing the switches, such as the main server router, is straightforward. If you use UniFi, it’s easy because everything is integrated into the product. You can discover and manage any connected device with just one piece of equipment, like the UniFi controller. This applies to both the wireless LAN and the wired LAN. UniFi products are simple to manage and help maintain a good network profile.
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Saran S
Managing Director at ProcessDrive India
The product is a simple and user-friendly software offering network protection and access controllers. Integrating everything into one solution makes it easy to manage and control all aspects of our network from a single place, which is crucial for our operations. These are the most valuable features of the product.
View full review »I can see which ports are connected and which ones are disconnected. This information is very useful.
View full review »The entire management console of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is beautifully designed, offering an intuitive interface for efficiently managing multiple locations and entities. With a single point of configuration, this system seamlessly extends its settings to all connected Ubiquiti devices. Furthermore, its unified interface seamlessly integrates additional features such as video surveillance, CCTV, and other functionalities within the environment.
The solution is very reliable and stable.
View full review »The information on the graphical interface is great and I like the ability to access it from anywhere. It's fairly easy to set up, use the product, and adapt it to Ubiquiti.
The most valuable feature of Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is the graphic user interface for monitoring, where you can see the status of the device in real-time. I use those features across the campus. I use the APs as my beacons to tell me whether the area of the school of the network is down or not. Those will be the first to alert me that there is a problem with the network or a device. They provide me with more than only monitoring themselves, I use them in order to monitor all the devices.
View full review »The value here with using the Ubiquiti products across the board is that they're almost all single-pane management and the single-pane management is included. It's a huge benefit. If you go with other brands and you have to pay extra or pay an annual fee to use it, there's a huge cost difference between let's say a Meraki Solution, which I would say for an enterprise is much better. If I have 20 sites and I'm doing hundreds of access points, I'm going to go to Meraki as already I have a budget. This is a bigger enterprise.
This solution, however, is tailor-made to a small and medium business that may have three or four locations and you can manage it from a single point. I can either contract with a company that manages my portal for $10 a month. Or I can do it at Amazon or Google Compute, et cetera, or just in a cloud scenario. It's a really flexible solution and it's very cost-effective.
It's possible to scale the product.
View full review »We have integrated the tool for PoE switches and non-PoE switches. Its most valuable feature is SD-WAN. UniFi SD-WAN can access all statistics and performance data in one interface, enabling us to support clients across different locations remotely. Additionally, we can even restart devices remotely through the UniFi SD-WAN.
We no longer need to physically visit sites for troubleshooting as much because issues can often be addressed remotely.
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Dev-Patel
Consultant at Lifeline IT
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a reliable product.
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Damnam BAGOLIBE
Security engineer at ARCEP Togo
The devices are cheaper than Cisco. That's why we adopted them.
It offers very good control.
It is easy to set up.
The solution is stable.
It can scale well.
View full review »The Ubiquiti network management stuff is really great. You can go to Cisco and other places to get it, but you'll pay a lot of money for that stuff and in a lot of cases, you don't need all that overhead. Ubiquiti's network management and the way you can manage many different devices on a network are really nice. You can manage the devices and get a lot of good statistics regarding traffic and who's doing what, so it's good.
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BearGFR
owner at zResource
Because it's a managed switch, I have the ability to set controls and configure traffic priorities, VLAN ports, etc.
It doesn't really have anything that sets it apart from any other professional grade switch. It essentially does what they all do.
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PeterMuiruri
IT Manager at Pride in Azure
The tool's most valuable feature is port security, which allows blocking/disabling ports. The ports also have PoE capability.
View full review »For the world where you have to balance traffic and traffic loads and bandwidth, their GUI makes it really easy because the switches, though they are enterprise grade level two or level three switches, the GUI is designed so that it's easy to set up VLANs where you need to control your traffic so that your phones don't break up and get choppy because of other people loading the network down too heavily. Telephony is pretty tricky to get right on a heavily loaded network.
View full review »The ability to deploy quickly and then having one central location for all the settings are its most valuable aspects.
They've been very aggressive as far as their feature sets as their capability.
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MohammadSalman
Consultant and technical support at joudeh center for computer and modern software
The product’s most valuable features are stability and scalability.
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Doru Ilasi
Senior solutions architect at Aplix Technologies
The integration with the controller is one of the most valuable features of these switches. They are also very stable. For example, we have some equipment that we haven't touched for four years that is still reliable.
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Magnus Sjolander
Manager at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
It's been working fine, it's been stable, and there are no interruptions. It's been there doing its job and has not required any work to keep alive, so that's been positive.
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AlexChubarov
Network and CyberSecurity Engineer at Nextro
Ubiquiti UniFi Switches are stable and support Layer 3. They come with a user-friendly interface. If you're not familiar with the command-line interface or you wouldn't like to configure it by using the command line, they have a user-friendly interface that you can use. They also have good documentation about how to use these switches.
View full review »This product is very reasonably priced.
I have not found any of the technical features to be particularly valuable.
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ThomasWilke
CEO at CITOM
These switches are very simple to use and the GUI is very nice. They have made administration much easier. Optionally, if you have a very advanced requirement then you can do it less comfortably using the GUI, or instead use SSH to program it. If you have experience in Linux and bash scripting then it is very easy to do.
The most valuable feature is that the technology is open. If there's a new technology then you can implement it yourself. For example, WireGuard is a very nice VLAN framework that is available on Linux and you can implement it on the Ubiquiti switches. With Cisco or other commercial products, you'll have to wait until the manufacturer starts to provide it for you. Sometimes, they need quite a long time before this will happen. It is for this same reason that we don't use macOS or Windows because they are always about five years behind current technologies.
The ability to manage firmware revisions is probably the most valuable feature.
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Alwakeel Sarmad
CEO at Cybertek
UniFi Switches' best feature is the ability to switch voltage from 24 to 48, and it's almost the only device on the market with this feature.
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Barry Arendt
Owner at ThinkEzIT
I like the price point of this solution and it's very simple to use with a straightforward setup.
The two most valuable features are the remote access user and the side-to-side connection.
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Steve Pender
Managing Member at Pender & Associates
Overall the solution functions very well.
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Pardon Chishumba
IT Administrator at a outsourcing company with 1-10 employees
The solution is very good for expanding our LAN.
The product has proven itself to be stable.
The scalability is very good.
The installation itself is very easy.
I haven't found the cost of the solution to be too high.
View full review »The user interface makes it simple to configure and manage.
The access speeds are high.
View full review »It is great size-wise and the user interface is easy to use. You don't need to be a pro to use this solution.
View full review »The interface and the duality are the solution's most valuable features.
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EnockAnderson
Head of ICT Unit with 11-50 employees
I like the control one has with this solution; you manage everything from one central point. Everything including the devices and the switches. So the centralized management is one thing that I really like about Ubiquiti.
View full review »The most valuable feature is that you can manage everything through the Cloud Key UniFi controller.
The fact that you can manage everything including the switch-level configuration, and access point configuration of both the wireless networks and the LAN, is very useful.
The GUI interface is very easy to use and the Linux-based command-line interface is also good. I am happy with the interface.
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FaisalSmair
System Engineer at DANAT IT FOR BUSINESS
The solution's most valuable feature is its reliability.
View full review »The product is seamless and robust. We only had issues when there were power outages. The user interface is the most valuable feature. The tool is easy to use. I rate the ease of use an eight out of ten.
View full review »The performance is good. They also have good prices and have a lot of functions in their software.
The idea used in Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is very powerful and interesting. It's also new in this market.
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ShabeerMohamed
CAD Engineer at Pro av
Ubiquiti UniFi Switches is a stable solution.
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Ubiquiti UniFi Switches
March 2025

Learn what your peers think about Ubiquiti UniFi Switches. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2025.
860,632 professionals have used our research since 2012.