We are looking at upgrading our network equipment from old HP switches and Aruba access points, we have a Fortinet firewall that we are happy with, so we’ll probably keep using them there, but for the rest we are looking for new stuff.
And we are looking closely at Ubiquiti for switches and APs, but two things have appeared on our radar.
Ubiquiti does have a cloud admin UI, this means that Ubiquiti needs to have access to our network controller to access this feature.
But what if we don’t use that, will Ubiquiti still be able to access the network controller?
I guess that what I am asking is how does the access control work?
Also, updates, I see that they seem to be very frequent and also see some scattered reports that they have required admins to reset their configs and loosing camera footage, can you set updates to be delayed for X days?
Just a note we use Ubiquiti at our office with an on prem network controller so none of the devices talk to the cloud. However some of the nice to have features on the controller require a unifi gateway (router) to use, such as some of the web filtering. Double check which features require what before you commit.
Honestly tho they’re such a step up from most enterprise bullshit I can’t complain.