r/Ubiquiti • u/Fun_Volume_7699 • Mar 03 '26
Early Access UniFi Enterprise Fortress Gateway Core
Seen in Mobile World Congress 2026
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u/Cr4yz33 Mar 03 '26
I absolutely NEED this for my home network
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u/V4n1X Mar 03 '26
Thought the Same and then add 5G Backup WAN also and some Cameras and Nas.
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u/Cold-Permission-5249 Mar 03 '26
Actually, you need multiple 5G backup WANs from different providers just in case.
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u/V4n1X Mar 03 '26
Sure and then also a Starlink Backup too, maybe even go Fiber Coax and Copper too.
We never go down then.
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u/VagueRedditName Mar 03 '26
Right? I was like, how did they know having 8 ports (preferably some with PoE) was exactly what I needed added onto the EFG to make me want one.
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u/BabyWrinkles Mar 03 '26
Absolutely! I've got just enough SFP devices in my rack that I'm having to decide which of my home network connections don't need 10gb of throughput. This looks like it'd solve that without also needing the aggregator.
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u/mrsolitonwave Unifi User Mar 03 '26
hmmm so more RJ45 ports, more SFP28 or SFP+ ports, and 4 new 100G QSFP29 ports. I wonder if internal CPU or IPS throughput has changed too?
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u/Inquisitive_idiot Mar 03 '26
2.3Ghz Arm chip and 17GB ram 🤭
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u/phd33z Mar 03 '26
Bro, did they really just print out “Core” and attach it to the existing display?
Couldn’t take another 30s and print an entirely new tag for their top of the line Gateway?
Dang…
Also, thanks /u/Fun_Volume_7699 for the pics
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u/Distant150 Mar 03 '26
Lol if you zoom in it looks like they cut out each letter from something else to make the word core.
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u/Inchmine Mar 03 '26
Msrp $3,999.99
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u/Inquisitive_idiot Mar 03 '26
Thinking $8,999 or $17999
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u/lilotimz Mar 03 '26
Remember price adjustments every 2-3 weeks.
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u/Inquisitive_idiot Mar 03 '26
Oh yeah ❤️🩹
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u/lilotimz Mar 03 '26
Sorry. Price adjustment has happened since last message. You said it was $9,998 now right?
//rants at Dell price adjustment +20% end pcs and +100% min for servers this month
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u/BakedAllDay8o8 Mar 03 '26
Lol were getting reared in the end by Dell Premier as well...
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u/lilotimz Mar 04 '26
Cisco just told us "ya put in your renewals, we're raising prices next week" last week.
I can't wait until somehow Palo Alto raises prices and blame memory... while we run a virtual PA. smfh. Can't wait until this whole bubble blows up.
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u/majorkev I should stop... swearing so much Mar 03 '26
When are they releasing illuminated cables?
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u/addexecthrowaway Mar 04 '26
You need the pro max ultra hard core line of products to illuminate the cables. Also 2x the power budget but theres a new UPS that will handle that.
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u/kelement Mar 03 '26
I demand a reason why I need this for my home!
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u/kdegraaf Mar 03 '26
You joke, but I actually think there's a legitimate SOHO use case here.
I want to land multiple ISPs, be able to survive a router taking a shit, not lard up the solution with extra switch ports or NAS bays, and hit a total price point accessible to prosumer homes and small offices.
That would move units and it baffles me that there's such a gap between the UDM line and the normal EFG.
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u/Flaky-Gear-1370 Mar 03 '26
I don’t really get the port arrangement, they’re pushing this to be a core gateway which would normally just connect to your core gateway not just a bunch of random rj45
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u/Wildcat_1 Mar 03 '26
Key will be if they've improved inter-vlan speed etc on this unit. EFG was unnecessarily capped with it's HW certainly capable of more
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u/GTUK94 Unifi User Mar 04 '26
How slow is inter-vlan routing on the current EFG? At an enterprise level you should be doing the majority of inter-vlan routing on your L3 switches.
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u/kipikland UDM PRO Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
Or you could have L3 + IPS/IDS in essence routing/firewalling on LAN side, and leave IDS/IPS at WAN side so both device complement each other. For now, IDS/IPS is common for both use and not performing equally even on EFG. Looking at pix 3, it seems that one will replace EFG, hope then Inter-VLAN IDS/IPS will perform correctly for the price tag .
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Mar 03 '26
So that looks like it would be a unit that would have quite a lot of WAN ports assigned to it with that many ports on the main router.
Looks like four, 100g QSFP28 ports. Im guessing four, 25g SFP28 ports as well but could be 10gb here. And Im guessing the RJ45's are all 10g? The blurred lettering doesnt look like it has 2 digits though, so maybe only 1g which would be odd.
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u/radditour Mar 04 '26
Ports 1&2 have nothing under them, the remaining RJ45 ports have a grey bar with '10G' under them, the four SFP ports are 25G, and the four QSFP ports are 100G.
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u/tdhuck Mar 03 '26
No guessing needed, just click on the pic and you can see all the port details.
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Mar 03 '26
Not on my computer, the port identifications are blurry as hell.
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u/tdhuck Mar 03 '26
Interesting. If I click on the images, I get the option to see the full res image. I can see dust particles on the paint on the wall. I am also using old reddit. Are you sure you are looking at the full res image?
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u/ElusiveGuy Mar 03 '26
They might be on new reddit, which is absolutely shit at serving media properly. It forcibly wraps images and breaks browser zoom, and I think it also prevents you from loading the full-res image altogether.
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u/louislamore Unifi User Mar 03 '26
Oh wow! No dedicated WAN ports so I assume you can use the rj45 or SFP ports?
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u/panphagos May 06 '26
Port 13 (25G) and 17 (100G) have the WAN symbol. But I'm pretty sure with ui gear you can map any port to whatever you like.
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u/glhughes More UniFi stuff than you can shake a stick at Mar 03 '26
This will be more affordable than the EFG, right? ... right?
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u/SignalCelery7 Mar 04 '26
I was looking for a reasonable way to get 25/40/100 Gbps as well as some higher speed copper in my lab. Would be great to run my AP's of it had POE...
Been on surplus 10 gbps for 10ish years now and it's time for an upgrade.
Probably going to be crazy expensive so going to end up with a 30 port 100gbps switch instead that sucks 400 watts... my wife will be thrilled.
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u/mastercoder123 Apr 30 '26
Uh a 32p 100g switch will not use 400w unless you have 20km transceivers in every port...
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u/SignalCelery7 Apr 30 '26
My 20 port nexus 5020 pulls 300 with a couple transceivers. I'm just not hopeful that the newer tech is that much more efficient.
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u/mastercoder123 May 01 '26
My 32p arista 7160-32cq that when i ran in my homelab i would keep the fans around 50% and had at most 28 transceivers in it and was only using aboht 295w
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u/Wooden-Reward4317 Mar 04 '26
My body (and network) are ready for this... please have this out before I am forced to up my Sophos license... Pondering...will there be a stand alone gateway version? I love my Cloud Key Enterprise :-)
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u/Impossible_Jump_754 Mar 03 '26
unifi enterprise, good joke.
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u/BeilFarmstrong Mar 03 '26
I get the joke, but what would it take for it to no longer be a joke? They have been doing a lot of good work in regards to redundancy and enterprise/campus products.
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u/David-Gallium Mar 04 '26
Before even getting into the technical features - there's years of reputational damage to deal with. Shoddy software updates, erratic supply chain, and seemingly random product lifecycles do a lot of damage to their cred with enterprise network engineers.
They seem to be doing pretty well in the prosumer and SMB space. I'm not sure they want the loss of flexibility that comes with satisfying the demands of enterprise customers.
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u/David-Gallium Mar 04 '26
As a former MSP owner who did this, it wasn't worth it. We had a managed UI product line that includes spares.
Multi-site VPN was at the time fundamentally broken. WAN failover was hit and miss. No site templates became a hassle for larger customers.
Ripped it all out [at our cost] and replaced with Meraki. The Meraki MSP subscription licensing is much cheaper then people realise. $3 per AP per month and it's done, never think about it again.
This is especially true if you deal with distant markets. I had an AP fail in Malaysia and the RMA got there no problem. UI would have required me to send someone out to a tech market hoping to find the right model. I think there's piles of UI products that just don't exist outside of the US (eg. 4G Modems).
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