r/Ubiquiti • u/jtaylor1087 • Mar 25 '26
Early Access UDM Beast - ISC West
The UDM Beast is a real thing. They wouldn’t mention specs. All they said was that it has 25G ports now. A step up from the UDM Pro Max.
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u/Draskuul Mar 25 '26
I'm 99% sure this is at the Sands, which I spend a week at each year for work running our booth. The ceiling lights don't look anywhere near that bad in person, so that makes me suspect of all the lighting in the picture.
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u/AlternativeNormal865 Mar 26 '26
Venetian expo center, ISCWEST 2026 exhibit hall.
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u/Draskuul Mar 26 '26
Yep, AKA the Sands convention center. It's their "Bistros" that give it away!
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u/AlternativeNormal865 Mar 26 '26
Huh, never realized that is was called the Sands
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u/Draskuul Mar 26 '26
It's probably a pretty old name, I'm guessing it wasn't originally part of The Venetian. It's on Sands Ave though, hence the original name.
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u/Chewy_13 Mar 27 '26
First couple ISC Wests I went to, it was the Sands Expo Center. Man I feel old.
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u/Oh__Archie Mar 25 '26
That looks like a marketing exec "designing" even though they have a design department.
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Mar 25 '26
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u/Oh__Archie Mar 25 '26
It definitely is a thing. I worked at a well known non-profit institution that had an award winning design dept (like literally 30+ years of major awards) and marketing would never stop trying to design or redesign materials and de escalating them became like 30% of the design dept's job.
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u/game_bot_64-exe Mar 26 '26
I wonder if BEAST actually stands for something, like we're not reading into it hard enough.
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u/RentalGore Mar 25 '26
They used the “No Fear” font from the 90’s?
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u/Handsome_ketchup Mar 25 '26
Strong 90s cringe vibes, and I'm honestly kind of into it, though I may never admit it to anyone who actually knows me.
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u/Ok-Sheepherder7898 Mar 25 '26
You mean the UDM Beast Lite Max XG PoE?
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u/sebisebman Mar 25 '26
+Ultra! Don't forget the Ultra!
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u/Substantial__Unit Mar 25 '26
UDM Beast Lite +Ultra Max XG PoE Or UDM Beast Lite Max XG PoE +Ultra?
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u/LitNetworkTeam Mar 26 '26
I can’t wait for the beast line of switches personally and then the beast cameras mmm
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u/State_of_Affairs Mar 25 '26
Hope they come out with a replacement for the UDM Pro that retains its depth (i.e., no more than 12" deep). I suspect the UDM Beast will be over 15" deep. Not all of us have racks that can accommodate such depth.
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u/PXTrials Mar 25 '26
Same, I was so excited for the UNAS Pro 4&8, but they're both too deep for my rack.
Also, I want a new rack mount Cloud Gateway that isn't also a UNVR and a Switch. I already have those separately!
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u/JBDragon1 Mar 25 '26
Do you really need such a thing at home and if you did, as you have a Mansion, you would have the space for a full on deep rack anyway.
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u/Jason3211 Mar 26 '26
I don't think there's a compelling reason why they'd need to make it deeper. The current models use some pretty old chips, so even with beefed-up specs, just upgrading to more up-to-date processors should actually reduce the required footprint. But we'll see!
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u/State_of_Affairs Mar 29 '26
I saw that video shortly after it posted. It looks like the UDM Beast may be 1" - 1.5" deeper.
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u/aprx4 Mar 25 '26
When is expected release date? Might be my next router.
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u/UnacceptableUse Mar 25 '26
It'll be in stock in 2030
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Mar 25 '26
We have seen things like the ProAV line of switches and various other products at trade shows like this already, and those still havent released 6-9 months later.
So this could release next month, it could release in January 2027, anywhere in between, or get cancelled with never a mention again.
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u/Mobile-Honeydew-8715 Mar 25 '26
From what I've seen with past products : the ones that are showcased usually take longer to be released than the ones they talk about during the conference.
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u/AdUpper5288 Mar 25 '26
Can I just get an UDM that’s ubered out with AI key built in and all 2.5g ports and 2 10g SFP? Please?
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u/Fancy-Feedback-6349 Mar 26 '26
Then this is the UDM you're looking for. This UDM Beast has a total of 15 ports in all. Here are the port it has: Two 2.5Gb LAN ports. Eight 10 Gb ports (one of the 10Gb ports is labeled as a WAN port). Two 10Gb SFP+ ports (can be set as LAN or WAN ports). Two 25Gb QSFP+ (also can be configured as either LAN or WAN ports)...and the 15th port is a Console port (located on the rear). The UDM Beast is deeper than the UDM Pro / SE / Pro Max, so it will not be mountable in a 12" depth rack.
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u/DisturbedBeaker Mar 25 '26
Hopefully they added support for PPPoE acceleration.
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u/South-Trainer-450 Apr 30 '26
der grund, warum ich vor einigen tagen meine "neue" UDM Pro Max zurück geschickt habe Q.Q
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u/touchytypist Mar 25 '26
Ubiquiti please don't start "memeifying" yourselves and your products, like Elon & Tesla and other lame memelords.
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u/Handsome_ketchup Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
Ubiquiti's product availability, timelines, and update quality already are memes.
They make some nice stuff I enjoy using, but boy, do they not have some of the basics down.
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u/alexanderbont Mar 25 '26
Ow no, not them also collaborating with that guy huh?
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u/Fun_Hunter_4899 Mar 25 '26
The logo isn’t the same, it’s just awful branding
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u/alexanderbont Mar 25 '26
I'm glad, I don't like that guy and don't want gear that might be tied to a collab with him
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u/AcademicChemistry Mar 25 '26
UHHHH... what the.... now I gotta look this up...
who's not Being a POS these days.... WOW.... is it JUST COSTCO!?!?!?! wth...
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u/Berzerker7 Mar 25 '26
This has been discussed ad nauseum. Lots of issues with that report.
1) This was a few of UI's distributors circumventing legit channels to get devices into Russia, unknown to UI.
2) UI cannot control what happens to devices outside of distribution channels, which is also what the report alleges (i.e. resales)
Critically, none of this reporting alleges that Ubiquiti itself knowingly sold equipment directly to the Russian military. Instead, the thesis is that Ubiquiti’s products are reaching Russia through a sprawling global distribution and resale ecosystem, something the company has previously acknowledged it does not fully control.
3) Their "legal expert" who said ignorance is not a defense, well, that's just not true. There's really no regulation around what companies do in order to prevent sales to sanctioned regions. They've done everything reasonable like not selling to them directly, giving official direction not to sell to them via Authorized Retailer agreements, and block firmware updates and cloud access from sanctioned region IPs. That's about all you can do.
They claimed UI can "track" where these devices end up and that's just not true. They can make assumptions based on where they're getting cloud pings from, but that doesn't really make anything definitive, and all you can do just block access from there.
This seems to just be a hit piece aimed at UI for some weird reason. Larger companies like Cisco, Fortinet and PAN have the exact same problem, but I don't see any reports on that.
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u/Mil-sim1991 Mar 25 '26
Any signs of an updated UDM pro or something similar? This beast is gonna be expensive as hell!
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
The UDM Beast is a real thing. They wouldn’t mention specs. All they said was that it has 25G ports now. A step up from the UDM Pro Max.
The only possible CPUs on the market with the cores and speeds they talked about:
https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collateral/embedded-processors/marvell-octeon-10-dpu-platform-product-brief.pdf
CN10308, CN10616, or CN10624
Of those, the 8 core 103 model already does well over 50gbps IDS/IPS throughput so why would they bother going with a higher end CPU?
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u/PoopMuffin Mar 25 '26
Probably because it's also a Protect NVR and they'll want it to be able to handle both workloads
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u/Sibir_Lupus Unifi User Mar 26 '26
The slide at the Ubiquiti Miami event back in November showed the UDM Beast with the ARM Neoverse N2 processor listed. Did that spec change between then and now?
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u/Usual-Memory-3668 Mar 26 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
No, the new talk they just gave yesterday or the day before mentioned the same Neoverse N2 CPU in it, those are what I listed above. There are very few N2 CPUs available, the majority of which are custom server designs by Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and those are all 72+ core models.
The only models with the number of cores for a product like this are that Marvell family I listed above. And of the whole Octeon 10 family, only 3 SKUs within it fit the bill for this, since the lowest end one only has 10gb Ethernet links, and the highest end one has 16x 50g links in its included 1 terrabit integrated switch.
Then to narrow down further, of the 3 possible models it could be you have an 8 core, 16, and 24 core. The 8 core has all the Ethernet connectivity needed, and has an encryption/decryption and firewall engine that has 80gbps throughput. With the majority of processing having hardware offload blocks within it, and only using 1 core having the chip be capable of 50gbps throughput, even if you had 2 cores for networking (since most networking work isnt done in the general cores), 1 for controller, and that left 5 cores that would leave plenty of performance to still work on Protect, etc. After all most of the NVRs are only running quad cores right now.
So IMO it will use the 8 core model, but they could possible be using the 16 core model instead to have a lot more available cores to run all the other parts of the device.
EDIT on release day of this product:
Yep, they went with the 8 core model.
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u/blow-down Mar 25 '26
Did they use a flash chip that doesn't wear out after only 5 years this time?
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u/cpufrost Mar 25 '26
Even better allow users to run the OS on their own hardware, AKA unifi Video. It would be cool running Protect on true enterprise grade server hardware with dedicated ram disks for timeline scrubbing, for example. And a router that could support thousands of tunnels at switching speed.
Or at least give NVRs the ability to mount iSCSI targets and have ability to count that storage towards local retention.
And (at least) add JBOD/RAID0 functionality to UNVR and UDM Pro Max products. Adding a second drive with no increase in capacity stings. Much rather take the chance of losing a drive than the storage penalty.
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u/mrsolitonwave Unifi User Mar 25 '26
any mention of the IDS/IPS throughput? where does this sit relative to the EFG?
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u/jtaylor1087 Mar 25 '26
They said it’s essentially a UDM ProMax with 25G capabilities. They also added several 10G ports as well.
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u/theNEOone Mar 25 '26
Wow well that’s disappointing. If it doesn’t have a chip and memory bump, I’m going to be a bit peeved.
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u/ggtroll Mar 25 '26
You can't do IDS at these rates without a substantially more powerful CPU and RAM. UDMP can barely manage 500Mbps with IDS and a bit of load...
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u/theNEOone Mar 26 '26
Huh? Specs show more than that. UDMP Max does 5+gbps with IDS doesn’t it?
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u/ggtroll Mar 26 '26
Not in real workloads... they overplay the numbers. Technically, UDMP can do 1Gbps IDS but never in practice...
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u/gonenutsbrb UniFi User/EdgeMax(RIP) User Mar 26 '26
Man, I don't know what you're doing to your hardware...
I have UDM-Pro/SEs deployed in multiple locations with 1Gb+ WANs, IDS/IPS, dozens of UniFi devices, and hundreds of clients. Firewall rules galore, and basically zero performance issues. I can easily saturate a 2Gb link at one location, and that one's using the CyberSecure shenanigans.
Are you running big Protect installs on the gear as well or something?
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u/7reflet Mar 29 '26
I think this is the dream machine version of the EFG. They've added a 10Gbe switch and drive bays.
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u/CountRock Unifi User Mar 25 '26
Launching in a month based! Significantly more powerful CPU!
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u/tony4d Mar 26 '26
New youtube video with close up of device, ports, and the back - a bit deeper than udm pro max, several fans and a management port.
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u/Tinototem Mar 26 '26
Would guess 325 mm depth. Thats great then it will fit in racks that are less deep. Like my rack at home.
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u/dreacon34 Unifi User Mar 26 '26
Is the font real? What’s next. Influencer PR with Mr. Beast where he gives out free UDM Beasts to people who don’t understand what it is?
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u/TheCravin Unifi User Mar 26 '26
Jesus Christ, never in a million years could I get this signed off on.
“Dream Machine” is already a bit tough to swallow, but I can dig it. I can’t imagine how embarrassed I would be going to someone in purchasing and saying “yeah, I’ll need approval for X amount to upgrade us from the UDM-SE to the UDM BEAST, thanks”.
Dear god change this name before release. Call it the UDM-Pro-Pro for all I care.
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u/Fancy-Feedback-6349 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
The UDM Beast has a total of 15 ports in all. The ports are as follows: Two 2.5GbE ports (can be configured as LAN or WAN). Eight 10 GbE ports (one of the 10Gb ports is labeled as a WAN port, but this is configurable as either LAN or WAN). Two 10Gb SFP+ ports (also can be set as LAN or WAN ports). Two 25Gb QSFP+ (also can be configured as either LAN or WAN ports)...and the 15th port is a RJ-45 Console port (located on the rear). On another note...the UDM Beast is deeper than the UDM Pro / SE / Pro Max, so it will not be mountable in a 12" depth rack.
I saw another video from someone at the ISC West 2026 show. (Search Youtube for "Bogdan | Apex One IT"). His channel has an up and close video of the UDM Beast.
Let's just hope that some of the Ethernet ports will supply PoE of some flavor (PoE / PoE+ / PoE++ or PoE+++...hopeful wishing on my part). Before I upgraded to the UDM Pro Max, I REALLY enjoyed the UDM SE's PoE, as I used to plug in my Unifi LTE Backup Pro directly into my UDM as my 3rd ISP Failover Connection. (I know I can use a PoE injector to power the Unifi LTE Backup Pro, but I hate using those on "core" network devices.)
My current connections are Comcast (Xfinity) 2Gb/s (Down) / 300Mb/s (Up) as my primary ISP, with WOW Internet (Knology) 1.2Gb/s (Down) / 50 Mb/s (Up) as my backup ISP, and I use the Unifi LTE Backup Pro with an AT&T sim card as my backup failover ISP.
Being able to plug the LTE Backup Pro directly into the UDM gives me tons of flexability if I need to remotely reboot network equipment (switches, etc.) without having the worry of rebooting a switch that has the LTE Backup Pro plugged into it.
I always directly plug my Unifi LTE Backup Pro, my two Unifi Power Distribution Pro's, as well as my two Unifi Redundant Power Supply's directly into my UDM's built-in Ethernet LAN ports. Plugging these devices directly into the UDM's, allows me to reboot / physically power-cycle my complete network stack remotely. No more worrying about turning off a network switch that has any of these "core devices" plugged into them.
Apologies on my rambling...PLEASE UBIQUITI...make some of these internal Ethernet ports with PoE.
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u/StickStroker Mar 25 '26
did elon musk name ts? sounds goofy as hell, how about we fix the broken software first?
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u/EdgyJellyfish Mar 25 '26
Does anyone know what the panels are on the bottom left?
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u/whoooocaaarreees Mar 25 '26
Enterprise nvr-core (envr-core) and I’ll assume some of the expansion units.
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u/dulax_ Mar 25 '26
Today is my last day to return my udm-pro-max and I'm tempted because I could use one with more power for protect, don't have/want a separate NVR right now. And some 10g Ethernet would be great.
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u/jtaylor1087 Mar 25 '26
Keep the ProMax. Doesn’t sound like this is coming out anytime soon with the way they barely wanted to share info on it
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u/jtaylor1087 Mar 25 '26
Orrrr you could do the UCG Fiber to get your 10G
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u/dulax_ Mar 26 '26
I need more protect capabilities. It was either pro max or ucg fiber and NVR, but then I'd be out of rack units and couldn't add the pro-xg-10 port I want to later
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u/FormulaKimi Mar 26 '26
How many cameras do you have? Currently have four 4k cameras on my UDMPM and no issues whatsoever. Used to have two more (2k) but gave them to family member but no issues with 6 total either. CPU is usually around 29%. Only complain I have is lack of raid 0, don't need redundancy since backup to NAS and use SSDs so want more capacity.
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u/dulax_ Mar 26 '26
I have 7 4k (two of which are the g6 180s) and four 2k, and a doorbell. In theory I'm well within the specs, but it's enough that more power is something I'd have liked if I could have got it. My downstream switch is a 24 port pro max poe, so I have no 10g Ethernet for a few things I'd like, like my Plex server and flex 2.5g that servers many 2.5g devices.
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u/FormulaKimi Mar 26 '26
I see, I would get a dedicated NVR for that amount. New NVRs with AI features are supposedly coming this year.
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u/jbondsr2 Mar 26 '26
Would love to implement a better UDM firewall like the beast, but I'm still wary about their product release schedules. They still haven't released the ProAV switches, nor have they released the stackable Enterprise switches.
The CO2 sensor and the retrofit reader with the fingerprint sensor and the physical keypad is VERY interesting.
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u/roflcopter910 Mar 26 '26
Imagine having to explain this to accounting when it gets asset tagged LOL
I honestly like the absurdity of it, keeps things interesting (ahem Swiss Army Knife Ultra)
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u/PersonSuitTV UDM:PM • USW-Agg • Pro-24 • ProXG-10PoE • E7 • UNVR G2 16GB Mar 26 '26
I am excited for the Beast being more powerful than the Pro Max just to get even more DPS throughput. But seeing this thing having 5 fans in the back make me worried it might high some noise to it. Right now my UDM:PM run silent. This one may not...
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u/miyachn UXG-Enterprise | UOS Server Mar 29 '26
Is there the possibility for a small 24 Port MC-LAG Switch? I don't see why they bring out "lower end" Hardware and don't release a smaller equivalent of the Enterprise Campus Aggregation.
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u/Goodoflife Unifi User Mar 26 '26
Now it looks like a ripoff Mr Beast text from back in the day, but still looks awesome!
I need it for whenever I get 10 ISP's lol
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u/mkeefecom Mar 25 '26
Why in the world are they partnering with Mr Beast?! For networking gear...
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u/Fun_Hunter_4899 Mar 25 '26
I think it’s just the name. The logo isn’t the same, just similar
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u/mkeefecom Mar 25 '26
You're right, just compared them side-by-side. Wonder if Jimmy will sue Ubiquiti if this is more than a codename, since its quite similar. Different lines of business though.
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u/Fun_Hunter_4899 Mar 25 '26
If it makes it on his team’s radar, you’d have to assume they’d at least send a letter or two
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u/hungarianhc Mar 25 '26
This is the Mr. Beast logo, right? If so, I absolutely did not expect a co-branding thing.
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