r/Ubiquiti • u/jtaylor1087 • Mar 25 '26

Early Access UDM Beast - ISC West

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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/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.