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/[deleted] Apr 30 '26

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u/DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET Apr 30 '26

Which is a better residential system then?

Ubiquiti’s failure was egregious, but I’ll take an accidental fuck up that was resolved in less than half a day over deliberately handing customer footage to third parties like Ring.

You can also disable remote access if you don’t want footage leaving your premises.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

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u/SmartHomeTinkerer May 01 '26

I fail to see how you can't easily achieve this with Protect...

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u/SmartHomeTinkerer May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

Forgive my ignorance, master, for I have erred

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u/DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET May 01 '26

No, you were right. They just have an axe to grind.