Ubiquiti Networks 8-Port UniFi Switch, Managed PoE+ Gigabit Switch with SFP, 150W (US-8-150W)

This is a great switch for who is looking for premium home/ small business networking. Unifi series of network equipment form Ubiquiti is excellent and easy to deploy and monitor. You can find much better prices for these. Amazon sellers are overpricing these by as much as 30 to 50%.This is not average consumer grade router/switch/access point. Do not buy unless you are serious about network performance.

This switch is easy to manage using the Unifi controller. I purchased it to power Unifi Protect cameras as it has POE on all ports. As the switch sits in populated room it is nice and quiet due to the fanless passive cooling design.The switch is of solid construction and well made. Do be aware that because of the passive cooling design, it does run quite warm when providing POE power out of more than three of its ports.

Has this happened to anyone else ? I was concerned immediately,as the slip cover on the box for the Switch was glued and would not come off .Finally get it off only to find I have what looks like an expensive extremely abused piece of electronics .Bent lid with screws not installed , scratches etc.Was so looking forward to receiving this,only to get a very used one.Edit : I forgot the most important part . There was a beat up D-Link 16 port switch in a Ubiquiti box . I never even received a Ubiquiti switch .

This 8 port (technically 10 port with sfp ports) is fantastic. I set this guy up at my home and it is a perfect solution.Pros:First, the build quality is top notch. The metal housing feels like it's coated in some kind of finish that almost sparkles in the light. The build is sturdy and nothing sounds loose whem you give it a shake.Second, I love that the power supply is built inside the frame on this unit. I owned the 8 port 60 watt model for a few weeks, which I returned in favor for this model. The 60 watt model has a power brick on the included power cable, but this model doesn't have that. It makes cabling more tidy.Third, the included sfp ports are nice if you need just a couple more ports. With copper gbic sfp modules, you can add two more rj45 ports. Or, if you want to bring fiber optic right to the switch, you have that option to install a fiber optic sfp module.Fourth, having all 8 copper ports capable of pushing POE+ (802.1af AND 802.1at POE standards). This is nice to push more power to your Unifi APs and some Unifi cameras that can take advantage of the 802.1at POE+ standard.Fifth, I love the Unifi controller software. It works quickly and is simple to setup. One main attractor of why I choose Ubiquiti was the unified controller for all of my gear. I love having one place to configure and view status of my home network.Con:I can only say that 200$ for an 8 port switch is steep. However, $200 for an 8 port + 2sfp + 802.1at + ubiquiti Unifi software switch, I can justify the price.Keep up the great work Ubiquiti. I would love to see more features on the Unifi controller, like native vlan configuration per port, dhcp snooping, Switch port Mac security, and lldp support when connecting non ubiquiti devices. With some of those extra features, I would be more likely to setup ubiquiti for my business networks. (See Update 1)UPDATE 1 - 4/11/2018Ubiquiti has provided frequent software updates for the switch and the unifi controller. They have included some great features I wished they had at the beginning of my review.Switchport Profiles - This allows you to configure a profile for a certian switchport purpose. I.E. Uplinks, POE ports, AP ports, Phone ports, Camera ports, etc. You can now assign a native vlan for trunked ports, and permit only certain vlans. Other advanced options are now available like 802.1X Control, manual link negotiation (duplex and speed), storm-control( multicast, broadcast and unknown unicast flooding!), manual LLDP configuration, and rate limiting! It is very nice to see some of these more advanced features available on the controller now!!! If the software keeps advancing like this, my 200 dollar investment is looking great.

Nice switch, however my first one died suddenly after a few weeks (thus 4 out of 5) Amazon sent a replacement but I needed to find a way to power my PoE devices in the interim (thus no information on Ubiquiti's RMA process). I likely wouldn't have decided to go with such an expensive managed PoE switch if it weren't for the integration with other Unifi devices.Gets a little warm - internal temp reads 60C on a shelf near other equipment in a large ~21C room, from photo the top of the case was ~30-36C (not unexpected for a 150W switch), so be sure the plan is to mount it somewhere with some airflow.You will need either a computer or a UniFi cloud key running the UniFi Controller software to use the manged features.

This switch works really well but is very temperamental with connecting to a Unifi controller. I understand there are lots of extraneous circumstances that play into that statement but my access points (x2), M900's (x2), M2's (x2), and M5AC's (x2) can be accessed or adopted just fine while this switch requires plugging it in a few times or resetting it in order for it to re-adopt through Unifi. Once it is able to be accessed by Unifi, however, its a great switch, powers everything as I would want, and is very intuitive to use with POE+ and 24V passive.