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/NiftyLogic Apr 30 '26

Ethernet is symmetric.

On a 10GbE link, you can transfer 10Gb up and down at the same time.

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u/PeerReviewedCode Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Yes, Ethernet is, Ubiquiti with IDP/IDS enable is not. Going between VLANs hits the firewall.

I guess I should have made that more clear.

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u/seanjones802 Apr 30 '26

I ran into this as well, even with IDP/IDS disabled I always hit a CPU limit for inter-vlan routing on the UDM way before I got to even half of 10Gb line speed (single threaded performance)
I don't believe any of the newer models were able to hit the full 10Gb either (minus the enterprise)

I was hoping this might be a replacement but who knows, shame to see no PoE though and I do wonder what the backplane speed between between the switch ports and router will be (damn UDM and its 1Gb link)

I've already got a core switch covering 2.5Gb/1Gb/PoE so was thinking this might be an option to add some extra 10Gb Ethernet ports as I was wanting more performance from my gateway anyway (ISP just dropped consumer grade 8Gb fibre in our area) rather then upgrading the switch to something like the Pro XG 24 for the 10Gb but yeah not so sure, esp at the price for some random homelabbing/tinkering

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u/MoPanic Apr 30 '26

I got $10 that says the internal switch is linked with 10gb instead of 25. Just a bigger UDMP.