@scottalanmiller said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:

@Pete-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:

I don't know if that is the case with Ubiquiti but some products in their line sure looks like it.
Looking at the number of employees working at Ubiquiti versus their revenue, also suggests that (most?) of their products are not designed in-house. That's just speculation of course.

Well the Edge line, and this is me guessing, is likely third party hardware that they buy (that's pretty easy) and they basically use an open source OS barely modified. They were half public about that when they started, so it kinda made sense with that line. No idea if they continued that with Unifi and others.

Well, they started with RF-based products so they have that expertise in-house.

It would make sense that their wifi products are developed by themselves and manufactured by OEMs while the rest are ODM products.

That's the quickest way to expand the product range. Otherwise you need a ton of employees. From the info online they're only about 1000 employees worldwide.

@braswelljay said in Ubiquiti Edgeswitch console cable ...:

Will this usb to rj45 console cable work with the Ubiquiti edgeswitch?

Ubiquiti uses standard RS232 communication on a standard EIA-232 port. So this should work fine.

@fredtx said in Did I connect these switches according to best practices?:

For instance, I've seen your posts where you said you learned some good concepts while studying for the mcsa MCSE back in the 90's.

That's true. But mostly I learned about the parts that weren't related to them, and mostly from third party sourced like Ed Tittle. Microsoft's own materials weren't bad, but not on par with good educators.

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@coliver said in Switch for harsh environment ...:

Ubiquiti has the Toughswitch Carrier as well. It's older tech not sure if they still actively sell it.

https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-TS-16-CARRIER-ToughSwitch-Rackmount-Controllers/dp/B00CXU9ZOC

They still sell it but they get very hot. However they are fan-less so that might be good.

Short of getting advisories from vendors, just putting something on the calendar is probably best.

@bnrstnr said in Router / AP / Switch for business:

ES-24-LITE

That's right...

@scottalanmiller said in Multiple switches - connection:

@ccwtech said in Multiple switches - connection:

For connecting multiple switches (3 in this case), if your router has Gigabit LAN, is it best to to have a cord from 3 different ports on the router to each switch or to have the router go into 1 switch and then daisy chain the switches... or... does it really matter?

Neither. Router to Switch at the hub, then spoke other switches.

Correct. that is what I said, in a slightly more technical way.