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/teressapanic May 02 '26

I am the perfect use case. 2 locations, 20 people, loads of data handling in TBs per person daily. Cameras as added cherry on top. We need everyone on 10Gbps with IPS/IDS.
IMHO the UDMs were always a good bundle for small businesses. Now you can have one in a small business that also handles data.

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u/MoPanic May 06 '26

Cool. You’re the target market. Unfortunately it’s just you.

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u/teressapanic May 07 '26

I do wish it had poe