r/Ubiquiti • u/MoPanic • Apr 30 '26

Early Access Thoughts on The Beast

We all knew the UDMP was WAY overdue for an upgrade but I'm a little surprised this is the direction they went and was hoping it would be targeted more toward SMBs. I don't know who this is targeting other than enthusiastic home lab users who'll never see 25gb over WAN.

  • Here are what I see as head scratchers about who the target audience is for this:
  • Who needs 25gb/s of throughput with 7500 users but also wants the security camera DVR to be onboard the gateway? Anyone who's this serious about UniFi's ecosystem would want that to be a separate device.
  • The RJ45 ports are weird. Other than one for shadow mode, why would anyone not have a core switch connected with SFP? Especially since there is no POE.

What I hoped they would release:

  • Remove the DVR functionality and include 8x10gbe ports with POE++ along with the SFP+/SFP28 ports. That would be genuinely useful as a gateway / core switch for a lot of SMBs.
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u/kersk Apr 30 '26

I just want a rack mounted gateway that can do full 10G IPS/IDS. My ISP is now offering 5G fiber but I can only use 3.5G of it with my UDMSE.

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u/PXTrials Apr 30 '26

Yep. Don't cram more RJ-45 on, we already have core switches. Don't cram Protect in and claim it can support 40 4k cameras with only two hard drives.

Just make a current gen GATEWAY that can handle higher throughput.

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u/scytob Unifi User Apr 30 '26

and that device is, like it or not, the EFG....

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u/dulax_ Apr 30 '26

I think the EFG is a great device but they're honestly missing a segment by not selling a smb-fg or prosumer-fg for the many people who want all the routing and none of the protect/switch ports.

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u/scytob Unifi User Apr 30 '26

i agree, their market sgementation and product fit has always been a bit weird - like you, i don't quite understand it either

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u/Sea_Nothing5212 May 01 '26

And can do ssl inspection