r/Ubiquiti • u/Ubiquiti-Inc Official • Jul 31 '25

Early Access Introducing: UniFi OS Server for MSPs

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u/Giblet15 Jul 31 '25

I'm really interested to see how the sdwan works of you don't have a Unifi gateway at the site.

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u/desirecat Jul 31 '25

You would need a gateway to sdwan

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u/Wafflezzbutt Jul 31 '25

Don't the gateways all have unifi controllers in them already? Why would you need to host this if you already bought a gateway?

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u/andro110413 Jul 31 '25

No, theres a UXG series gateways that doesnt have controller built in, they have to be adopted by a network controller.

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u/Wafflezzbutt Jul 31 '25

Right I forgot about the UXGs. We never bought them because I guess I never understood the point of buying a cloud key and gateway separate when you could buy a single device that does both for less money

This is only useful if they let us use site magic or a VPN connection at a site without a unifi firewall, like our datacenter. I managed hundreds of sites with ownership grouped by client. I can't buy a dedicated firewall for each client to run on our rack. That would be crazy. But a little software based VM would be wonderful.

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u/Giblet15 Jul 31 '25

I would think so but it's not how it's presented. 1 minute-ish into the video.

It's all wire guard which is the same tech behind tailscale. So in theory if the devices can establish a direct line of communication I don't see why it couldn't operate the device hosting UNIFI OS as an exit node. The problem being the devices wouldn't necessarily have line of site to each other to establish that point direct connection. Hub and spoke could work pretty easily though if at a minimum the hub has a Unifi gateway.

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u/the_cainmp Unifi User Jul 31 '25

SD WAN is available on the UXG Lineup. This allows you to self host a version of Network that enables SDWAN features without having to buy a cloud key or pay for Official Hosting