Really I have just been thinking about the future. I love tech, I love building tech, I love using tech, I really enjoy pushing tech to the limits of what it can do and reaping the rewards that it brings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right now the new switches and hardware have ‘etherlighting’, it’s basically RGB lighting for network hardware. It looks cool, but when looking across the spectrum (pun) of Unifi products, I wonder if it is a flash in the pan for the current generation, or whether it will withstand the test of time and make it into later generations of products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I enjoy being on the bleeding edge of tech. However, I also do not enjoy wasting money. I will happily upgrade something after 3-5 years of usage, but I dont want to throw the towel in with my current setup just because the newer gear has pulsing blinky lights… oh baby, they pulse as well as blink…. AHEM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also think that what a pro-sumer actually wants, Unifi is completely aware of. Hmmm, lets just say I could get a UDM Pro, with six SFP+ ports for 10GB, PoE++ to power devices, and at least one HDD tray for Protect, it would essentially cut off and make redundant 70% of the devices that consumers\/prosumers would want to purchase. Because you have one box that does everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are downsides to this – if that one box of tricks fails, then you are shit outta luck with your network stack. I appreciate having layers of redundancy, or probably more likely, multiple items I can use to make sure that my network stays up in the event of failure. Wait, that’s the same thing. Whatever. At the end of the day I look forward to what is coming, again 5 years down the line I can see most of my stack having been upgraded to something that has released within that window. But not being a guy who immerses themselves in RGB, I am going to give the etherlighting gear a miss (unless Ubiquiti want to send me some! PLEASE SEND ME SOME TO PLAY WITH). The power and performance I need for my day to day is right here in my hands and I am loving the ease of use and total controlability that these hardware items bring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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