Features:

  • VERSATILE PORT CONFIGURATION: The UniFi 8-Port Switch delivers quiet yet powerful performance with its 10 independent switching ports. Sharing a total of 150W PoE, eight Gigabit Ethernet ports offer 802.3af/at PoE+ or 24V passive PoE, and two SFP ports offer optical fiber connectivity options to support uplinks of up to 1 Gbps
  • NON-BLOCKING THROUGHPUT: This 8-port switch offers a total, non-blocking throughput of up to 10 Gbps. The unit offers the forwarding capacity to simultaneously process traffic on all ports at line rate without any packet loss, with a switching capacity of 20 Gbps
  • ROBUST PERFORMANCE: This UniFi Switch is a fully managed, PoE+ Gigabit switch, delivering robust performance and intelligent switching for growing networks
  • INTEGRATION WITH UNIFI CONTROLLER: This switch integrates with the UniFi Controller software for centralized management of your UniFi devices
  • ADVANCED ENTERPRISE SWITCHING: The UniFi Switch supports 802.1X authentication, dynamic and static VLAN tagging, port isolation, storm control, and guest control
Very well designed L3 PoE switch

I've hesitated to spend $200 for a PoE switch but this is a purchase that I'm extremely please with. I use it power up three APs (AC LR x 1, AC Pro x2), two Hikvision cameras, and one Unifi Cloud Key. All working perfectly. I know this is properly an overkill but being able to "see" and control all my Ubiquiti gear with this switch is awesome. I can even remote power-cycle any connected devices. All VLAN configuration works great. One user tip: When powering up the switch from cold, it takes about 10 to 15 seconds for the LED to start to light up, so it's not a sign of defective. You just need to be patience. Definitely money well spent.

... 8 port (technically 10 port with sfp ports) is fantastic. I set this guy up at my home ...

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 - 4/11/2018 Ubiquiti 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.

An excellent choice for a managed, PoE capable switch!

The 250W version of the UniFi 24-port managed switch exceeded my expectations! Plenty of experience with UniFi APs and the associated controller led me to the selection of this device for the following reasons: 1.) Single pane of glass management: If you're already running another UniFi device and have a pre-existing instance of the UniFi Controller (via local install, VM, AWS instance, or cloud key), adopting this switch and making the necessary adjustments to its configuration are very intuitive. Provisioning VLANs and assigning per-port configurations are far more complex in other vendor's UIs and solutions. At a glance, you can quickly discern connected MAC address, link speed, and whether or not PoE is in use. Configuration changes apply quickly with no disruption. Updating firmware revisions is also incredibly simple. No TFTP, SFTP, other protocols/solutions are required as long as you have a running UniFi controller. 2.) 24V Passive and PoE+ capabilities: While the current-generation UAP-AC-Pro can operate with either PoE specification, the lesser APs and legacy APs require 24V Passive distribution capability within the switch or use of an injector. This switch supports the full gamut of UniFi APs without issue, along with the other miscellaneous UniFi portfolio offerings. While the 250W rating will cap the total number of PoE-enabled devices one can run, it's a balanced compromise for environments that won't be loading the switch ports up with an overabundance of PoE endpoints. The 500W variant of this switch better addresses that market. 3.) Price: If you watch very, very carefully, you can get a pretty spectacular deal on this switch from Amazon. 4.) Build Quality and Noise Considerations: The construction and aesthetics of this switch are unequaled at this price point. It's clean, minimalist, and has the necessary indicators that provide the ability to know what its doing using nothing more than a quick glance. The labels and LEDs do the job well and are clear. As a point of reference, this switch makes less fan noise than an HP V1910 switch with the stock delta fan. It's not silent, but it would be far more tolerable if you are forced to keep the switch out in the open or within close proximity to other equipment. Minor caveats of note include: 1.) Port Aggregation: Ports that will be aggregated (e.g. LACP/LLDP interfaces) are limited to a quantity of four, and follow in series from the first port defined for the aggregated link. Selecting Port 2 (as an example) will allow you to aggregate Ports 2 through 5. There are cabling considerations to be processed and accounted for if you're using aggregation. 2.) Availability: Procuring this switch at list price (or slightly better than list price) can be a challenge. As long as you're not in a rush, you won't be gouged. 3.) Dependency on the UniFi Controller. Once configured, the controller won't be required to run 24/7. If you want to make a change, you need an active controller that has adopted all UniFi products. Many options exist to fulfill this purpose including the UniFi Cloud Key, a VM, an AWS instance, or running the controller on a PC of your choosing. Weigh the pros and cons of each before making the commitment to the best option in this space. None of these caveats detract from what is another excellent product made by Ubiquiti.

Ubiquiti products are much better than your standard router you buy from electronic retail ...

Ubiquiti products are much better than your standard router you buy from electronic retail stores. I set this system up in our home with several of their Access Points and I have excellent coverage all over our home. I used the trueCABLE CAT 6 cable to connect the AP's to the switch and the system gives unprecedented coverage throughout our home. You do need to have some rudimentary background in electronics/IT in order to get the system connected and running. This system gives you amazing stats on each AP, how many devices are attached to each AP, signal strength of each device (client) and it seamlessly transitions devices from one AP to another AP without any interruption in connectivity. Excellent product.

My experience with most of UniFi Switch.

I wanted to post some information I gathered on most of the UniFi switches to help people purchase the right unit. I have been using Ubiquiti products for quite a long time but the UniFi switches are something I'm just getting into for my home and a couple smaller work sites. I mainly deal with HP 2920 series PoE switches at work, which are excellent and support is very good. First off, the ugly truth is that if you want a PoE switch you have to deal with it either being hot or listening to some fan noise. I'm forever on the quest for the unicorn quiet PoE switch with a fan. That said here are my thoughts: 8 Port 12W - a great little unit, especially in my case where I have larger PoE switches deployed. If I have a location with a single network cable that needs more outlets, plug it in and done. Works great as a stand alone too. At home my office has a single network port, so I'm using this with the POE passthough to a Hikvision cube camera. Fanless, so quiet and with only 12W not overly hot. It's almost impossible for me to not want one of these on the shelf at all times. 8 Port 60W - I don't think I've tried this one, based on it being essentially a high output/more PoE ports than the 12W, I'm sure it works just a well, fanless quiet but the laws of physics says 60W should be hotter than 12W. 8 Port 150W. I really want to like this switch. 150W, SFP slots and rack mount, also a nice size for the desktop. I don't like smaller desktop switches when they don't have enough weight to them and the cables pull it around. Two things keep me from loving this switch. The first being that I'm spoiled by working with the HP 2915. It's not a fair comparison as the HP is $575 but budget permitting this is my favorite fanless POE switch for now. The second is this unit gets AMAZINGLY hot. There are lots of theads that explain that the temps it runs at are OK while others disagree quoting that the hotter electronics are, the worse it is. 150W with a fanless design has to get hot but I'm sure it was designed accordingly. I have not seen any posts about failed units and I haven't had any issue with mine even with the exterior case temp at 125 degrees when my garage ambient was well over 100. There is a lot to love here but the case temperature must to be part of your buying equation. 16 Port 150W. This switch hits the best balance of fan cooled but quiet enough to be in an open office. Full rack sized with 16 ports. Nothing but good stuff here. I'm rather envious of this unit at work as HP does not make a 16 port 2920 PoE. The HP 8 port is great as I mentioned, while the HP 24 port is too loud for office use. 24 Port 250W I have this unit as my core switch at home, a full UniFi system, Cloud Key, USG Pro, 5 UAP-AC plus hikvision PoE cameras. This switch makes some noise, too much to be around office workers. Mine is in a tripplite enclose in the garage. Not the coolest place to start with but even when setting idle in a 70F room its no quieter. Going back to my first statement about PoE being a balance of heat verses noise, this was the right switch for my situation. It's in a hot environment so I want as much fan cooling as I can get. Being in the garage and in a metal enclosure, I can deal with the sound level. I could have gone with the 16 port as I currently don't have that many devices but as you'll quickly learn that you can never have enough ports. For roughly $100 more, I got 50% more ports and wattage to be somewhat future proof. I don't have any experience with the 48 Port models but given their port density and higher wattage I can go out on a limb and say they are fairly loud as well. Ubiquiti gets a bad rap sometimes because people are so used to spending a lot more money for the devices they sell. I was spending $800ish for Cisco wifi access when I first found UniFi, "how good can the UniFi AP be for $200?" My overall experience with their switches and really all the UniFi family has been very positive and I really appreciate them putting 'not quite enterprise' level equipment in our hands so affordably. Any of these switches should service you well, I hope this helps you pick the unit that best fits your needs.

Amazing Managed switch without outrageous licenses fees!

To really take advantage of this switch, I recommend you go all in with Ubiquiti and the Unifi Family. Get yourself a Ubiquiti USG > Ubiquiti US-80150W > Ubiquiti UAP-AC-PR > Ubiquiti CloudKey. Look up Chris Sherwood(Crosstalk Solutions) channel on YouTube for a FULL walk through on how to setup all devices. It's called "Complete UniFi Setup Start to Finish" Theses devices aren't really newbie friendly. You should have a decent understanding of LAN protocols. Fantastic choice for both Home and Small to medium business.

WIthout a doubt, the best ecosystem to get into.

I cannot begin to put into words how happy I am to "switch" to the UniFi ecosystem. We completely redid our networking kit for our small business and went with the controller, USG, POE switch, and 4 mesh APs. Just wow. Setup was an absolute breeze. The controller methodology where you have one device that manages the settings as opposed to each device doing their own, wow. Once I get everything plugged in and found the controller, provisioning, updating firmware, and configuring everything was somehow a pleasant experience as opposed to any Cisco gear I've worked with in the past. VLAN, isolated networks, firewall, everything was a breeze. The best test was when I was off-site and the owner wanted a new AP. I ordered another UniFi mesh AP to his business and just told him to place it where he wanted and plug it into the nearest Ethernet port. Thanks to POE, no need for power outlets. Since all ports go to this switch, I was able to go onto the UniFi app on my phone and press one button to provision the new AP that the system already found. No copying over network settings, no gateway config, nothing of the sort. One-click provision and everything was brought to the new system. Literally, 10 seconds of my time and I haven't touched it since. With the UniFi system, I was back to spending time on determining requirements instead of spending time in settings. I would highly recommend this setup.

easy to use

I have been on a Ubiquiti Unifi tear lately updating my network with these inexpensive, full feature, easy to use, devices. This is my latest addition. The 24 port Unifi 250w switch. First off, adding this switch allowed me to remove the 8 port tough switch and a couple of PoE bricks that I was using to power APs and phones. Now everything is on one switch and the network closet is much cleaner. Configuring the switch is easy using the Unifi controller which will also control all other Unifi devices (except their UVPs). Any feature not in the GUI can be accessed through the CLI. If you are looking for a feature rich PoE switch, with a simple GUI setup, this is your rig.

Great hardware, software could offer richer monitoring tools

NOTE: I bought 4 different models of this switch line from Amazon but since I can’t submit more than 1 review I will cover the 4 models in the same review. 1) UBIQUITI UNIFI SWITCH - 24 PORTS MANAGED (US-24-250W) This Ubiquity switch is built like a tank, with a solid box and good cooling and hit the spot perfectly for my needs. (I considered the Edgerouter line before but I didn't have a need for routing functionality so I stayed away. I also used some Toughswitch-8 switches but found them to run quite hot and occasionally flake out) The performance of this switch is more than enough for my needs. The POE is a huge feature for me - I use Unifi access points and video cameras so the built-in passive POE saves me a lot of power injectors (I don't use 802.3af POE, but it's nice to know it's there.) The switch integrates nicely into the PC-resident Unify management software that I was already using for my access point. If you are not a "Unify shop" and the switch is the only thing you'll manage with the software it may be a tougher sell to have to install and run the server software on a PC (but frankly I think hardware like this is a big argument for becoming a Unify shop.) I only wish the Unify software offered better monitoring and stats of the switch's hardware, particularly on traffic stats. All you get are totals of how much upstream and downstream data has run through the switch and each port since the switch was last started. I would like to get real time throughput stats in bytes/s and packets/s for each port (to see if a link needs to be upgraded to gigabit, if I am experiencing a storm etc.) I would also like to see what MAC addresses are being served by each port in the switch (something my no-frills 5-port mikrotik RB260 switches readily give me.) Note that there appears to be a way to get into the switch opening a debug terminal, for all I know that route may offer some of these capabilities. However I never managed to bring up the debug terminal from the Unify software (I always get a "Connection Error"), and in any case to be of widespread utility these capabilities should be in the GUI itself. BOTTOM LINE: This solid switch from Ubiquity hits the spot right on (especially if you have other Unify products) and it has lots of future potential. 2) UBIQUITI NETWORKS 8-PORT UNIFI SWITCH, 150W (US-8-150W) This switch is simply an 8-port version of item 1) above and it deserves the same highly positive review. One notable difference is that it does not have a cooling fan, which elicits mixed feelings. On one hand it is great that the switch can work silently in settings where noise matters (i.e. anywhere away from the wiring cabinet) and it is also great that the switch is reasonably small for a switch with an on-board power supply. Kudos to the hardware designers for pulling those off. On the other hand having an onboard power supply puts the switch squarely in the enterprise switch class, where reliability and long hardware life is paramount even in harsh/hot environments. The ideal would have been for this switch to include a fan (hopefully in the same form factor) while giving the user the option to turn set it on off/on/auto. In the off mode the switch would become the equivalent of the switch as currently offered. BOTTOM LINE: Another great switch from Ubiquity, time will tell how reliable/long lived it is with no active cooling. 3) UBIQUITI US-8-60W UNIFI SWITCH and 4) UBIQUITI US-8 UNIFI SWITCH While all 4 switches reviewed here share the same data handling capabilities and management software, these last 2 switches are in a class of their own. The first thing you notice is that they are both super small, a great form factor to stash in all kinds of small cabinets. Part of that size reduction stems from the fact that the power supply is not built in, it is the external cord-mounted type. (I hope that Ubiquity will come out with a 5-port version in a similarly tight form factor.) These two switches dramatically part company from their bigger brothers – 1) and 2) - in their PoE support. Let’s compare: - The built-in power supply switches – items 1) and 2) above - do a marvelously elegant job handling PoE. Each of their ports offers a choice of “legacy” (24V passive) PoE on pins 4-5-7-8 or 802.3ax on pins 1-2-3-6. This means they can power the entire line of traditional Ubiquity 24V devices (and that of other compatible manufacturers like Mikrotik), and they can power all current and future 802.3ax devices. Such 802.3ax compatible devices are starting to show up in the Ubiquity lineup (e.g. the G3 Dome cameras, the Unify HD access points.) Note that these switches will never let you burn a passive 24V legacy device as they never put out anything higher than 24V on pins 4-5-7-8. - The US-8-60W – item 3) above - drops 24V passive PoE support. That is a big loss if you have a collection of passive 24V legacy devices (as of today most Ubiquity PoE devices fall in this class.) You can buy an adapter form Ubiquity to handle these devices with this switch but it costs about $ 25 per device, and if you are going to tolerate dongles you might as well keep using a separate power injector (you won’t have remote control capability but that is a relatively small loss.) So this switch is a big bet on the bright 802.3ax future; if you are not in a hurry to make that jump you may want to hold off buying it (In my case I put the switch to work handling a couple G3 Dome cameras.) - The US-8 also drops 24V passive PoE support while it adds PoE In support, accepting both 802.3ax and 48V passive PoE. The PoE Out support in US-8 – item 4) above – is on the idiosyncratic side. Like the US-8-60W the switch drops 24V passive support, aiming at a future ruled by 802.3ax. The switch can output 802.3ac PoE on port 8 provided the switch is fed with 802.3at PoE. But if you feed the switch with the DC adapter port 8 will output a non-802.3x compliant 48V PoE on Port 8. With a little more circuitry the switch could have been made to output 802.3ac in the DC-fed case, instead of outputting a non-802.3ax compliant flavor of high voltage PoE. Also, this switch has the capability to output 48V passive to pins 4-5-7-8 or port 8, so if you make a mistake you could burn 24V passive devices with it. BOTTOM LINE: The size and performance of these two switches makes them very attractive for any tight quarters. If you don’t need PoE the switches are a no-brainer purchase. If you need PoE you should make sure they support the kind of PoE that your devices need.

If you are willing to manage through Unifi, this is a good switch to get

Great device to implement when you need a mix of active and passive PoE. If you are considering this no doubt you are already familiar with configuration via Unifi. In my case I am using it for several of the devices offered by Ubiquiti which include a few cameras, an access point, and the unifi cloud key. Once configured, all work as expected without issue. The Active PoE is configured by default and any at/af devices will simply request an appropriate configuration and off you go. The passive PoE does have to be manually configured for the ports you intend to use it on. I failed to realize that this is not intelligently delivered power and long story short put 24V on my tongue while working on one of the camera installations. This unit does have fans in it, they appear to always kick on at 70C. Not overly loud, especially with the door closed. I expect with proper ventilation (mine is in a large closet) you may not ever hear them. I intend to finish pairing this with a regular 24 port Unifi switch to handle other non PoE connections since this is way more expensive per port.

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