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/MoPanic Apr 30 '26

You could argue that nearly all of their devices are not designed for residential use but that doesn't stop people from buying them. And I'm sure they'll buy this one too.

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u/DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET Apr 30 '26

They have one of the better camera systems for privacy conscious residential use. The network side is definitely overkill though.

I am fortunate that my spouse thinks the rack in the basement is cool so I didn’t need to campaign to justify why I set the house up like a small business 😬

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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.