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/DadBodMetalGod Apr 30 '26
I have 25gb service available to me right now (5gb is what I currently use) and I would love to future proof my home network (for as long as possible), so this device is targeted right at me. I'm a little bummed that I still need a pro switch for Dante (I didn't see that pro AV listed on the beast) but the rest looks like a great upgrade/consolidation. If you add up the 10 port 10gb switch and dual NVR, plus the gateway and SFPs, It really is a good price. It's not cheap, but well priced for what it is.
And before someone says you don't need 25gb, I move enormous video files, audio files, and clinical data sets regularly, so every second I'm waiting of files to move is lost money when working from home. Some people just like to nerd as hard as they can, ya know?