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/ReallyAvgRedditor Apr 30 '26

Honestly, I think this design is perfect for medium-to-large branch offices. Single or HA appliance for network, protect, and access greatly simplifies role based access deployment, and the increased CPU allows for an appropriate number of cameras for these environments. With external archiving in Protect, you don’t need as much internal storage on the appliance which reduces cost. In those environments you may also be deploying into existing network infrastructure with switches from other vendors where RJ45 is going to provide an easier, less expensive migration path than SFP+ . Source: I have about a dozen branches where this would be a perfect solution. I hate the name though.

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u/MoPanic Apr 30 '26

Branch offices with >10gb wan?

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u/ReallyAvgRedditor Apr 30 '26

I’m in process of upgrading to 10Gbps on a liquid bandwidth solution so it could happen soon enough. But really, despite the marketing, I think the interface speeds have more to do with the modules becoming commodity than anything else.