i don't necessarily disagree with you, but keep in mind that review, and many others are over a year old now. so current state may be different...After reading both the review on thissite and the following:
In its current state, Ubiquiti's EdgeSwitch won't have much of an edge on anyone
I am electing to hold off deployment of these for two firmware revisions or six months to see if the issues resolve themselves to my and my customers professional level of expectations.
true, then again , as in my case have been using the spf ports without issue using 3m dacs now for several months, and the copper ports i only use 1gb, which works fine.It is not different. Copper ports are still not able to support 10g reliably and consistently.
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I am just concerned that over the course of a year we are still seeing issues regarding a number of elements the copper 10g ports, an continuing lack of DAC cables support (Still far too selective which suggests that Ubunt does not consider this a priority) and the review here indicating some assembling and QA and software issues. I am in the business of providing solutions and having a layer three switch that is not rock solid after a year is concerning. A switch is only a small part of any solution I m offering and being paid for.i don't necessarily disagree with you, but keep in mind that review, and many others are over a year old now. so current state may be different...
If those are your considerations and requirements, you are looking at the wrong product, and perhaps even wrong company. I think UBNT is interesting and have some interesting products, but they have a reputation for releasing experimental products and relying heavily on community support model.I am just concerned that over the course of a year we are still seeing issues regarding a number of elements the copper 10g ports, an continuing lack of DAC cables support (Still far too selective which suggests that Ubunt does not consider this a priority) and the review here indicating some assembling and QA and software issues. I am in the business of providing solutions and having a layer three switch that is not rock solid after a year is concerning. A switch is only a small part of any solution I m offering and being paid for.
But it could undermine my clients confidence in all the other value I bring to a business as their chosen provider of IT services and that is a far more important issue. Hardware is the lowest tier of my value added offering and it must be totally reliable and not case issues with the rest of my solution proposal. For now I am gong to look at products from other vendors that are better developed and supported even at twice the price. Fortunately I only have a few customers that this is a consideration for so I can wait.
I agree with you that this is not the right product for me to deploy given its current state. There has only been incremental improvements in the last several months and it looks like this will not be market ready for several years. But it makes me wonder where would it be suitable to deploy except in some geeks house as a show piece where reliability is not a concern. If its not reliable I can't think of any business other then a small IT shop looking to gain experience in a non-critical environment that could afford to have unreliable network premised on a layer 3 switch that has problems with copper connections and very tight compatibility requirements regarding the DAC cables. Anything under 200 stations would in general not have enough traffic (except for high complexity engineering and video production) to justify deploying this regardless of the low price.If those are your considerations and requirements, you are looking at the wrong product, and perhaps even wrong company. I think UBNT is interesting and have some interesting products, but they have a reputation for releasing experimental products and relying heavily on community support model.