UniFi Switch 8 Unboxing and Setup

welcome to crosstalk solutions my name is Chris and today we're going to be taking a look at the unify switch 8 150 watt version now this is the smallest line of the or the smallest model in the line of unify switches and so we're going to take a look at what comes inside the box and we're going to get it set up with the unified controller and basically take a look at the features that come with this switch now this switch features 802 dot 3 AF power across all of the ports but it is capable of only up to a total of 150 watts of power output which is actually pretty good you could probably easily populate you know four or five of these ports with strong POA devices like the like the UAP AC pros or some you know VoIP telephones or something like that and and it probably wouldn't skip a beat now let's take a look inside the box it has an eight gigabit port it has two gigabit SFP ports it can do the 802 2.3 AF but you can also configure the ports to do the 24 volt passive poa that is proprietary to ubiquity for controlling their cameras as well as the lower-end access points such as the UA PA see like what else anything else on here managed by the unified controller okay so that's interesting now I typically don't like the unified devices I prefer the full-blown edge switches but that being said unify is quickly catching up with the capabilities that are built into the unified controller so these are definitely worth taking a look at at this point and you know for someone like myself who just has a small office and I need to power up you know phones on a regular basis things like that this is actually a pretty good switch to purchase the cost of this switch is $1.99 MSRP and here we go open the box so it looks like you get a couple of ears for mounting it brackets I should say power Abell QuickStart guide and then it looks like you've got a set of mounting screws for if you want to put this on the wall basically just drywall anchors and screws and you also have screws for the brackets to get them into the device itself now I don't think this would fit in a 19-inch rack if I'm not mistaken but possibly you can somehow get two of these screwed together no it doesn't say anything about screwing two these together so it just shows that you can you know mount them you know any which way you know these brackets will go up so that you can mount it underneath something like for instance I've got a POS which mounted on the underside of my desk over here it makes it real handy when I'm doing a lot of pou work you can mount it forward if you need it to for whatever reason backwards or of course down so that it can just be bolted on top of something okay so it's actually a pretty hefty device now interestingly enough this is the only eight port UniFi switch that's out right now but I was looking at reddit and on reddit some user took some pictures of some new eight port unify switches that are coming out that are actually lower end than this one so this is now the high end switch now there's no ETA on when those new switches will be out but the two switches that they featured at whispah Palooza this year in Vegas I wish I was there I didn't get to go are the unify switch eight which is probably the lowest price point interesting thing about the unified switch eight is that it had it's powered by either AC 48 volt AC power or 802 3 AF p OE so you can do p OE in on the first port to power it up and p OE out on the last port to then daisy daisy chain to another switch or you know whatever you want it doesn't provide P OE 2 devices itself it will just provide gigabit ports but it can be powered with p OE much like the edge router X can now why would you want to do that why would you want to power a device with p OE well for instance if you're putting it into a location where you don't have a lot of power but you need a lot of network connectivity for instance in your attic right if you had a place in your attic where you wanted - POA power the aiport switch and then from there feed out lines to other places in the house you could do it that way without having to actually have AC power up in the a the other switch that they're coming out with is basically this same switch but it's the u API it's the unify switch 860 watt so this is 150 watt they have a 60 watt version where only the last four ports provide p OE to your devices I'm assuming that both of those so this is 199 I'm assuming that when both of those come out they will be at a lower price point than this one but what that price point is and when they're coming out I have no idea so let's go ahead and get this thing set up and connect it to unify and take a look at its capabilities a few moments later all right well it looks like ubiquity might be trying to make this a really short video because this unify switch eight port is DOA believe it or not sending a do a device to me is not what ubiquity wants to do because a lot of people see this so check this out here we go I know this is a good working power plug here we've got power I've tried powering this thing with different power cables and I've tried powering it in different you know power outlets throughout the house so plug it in nothing so no fans no lights nothing I've unplugged this and replugged it a bunch of times and I get absolutely nothing so this unify switch eight port is DOA and now we get to start the RMA process so I'm going to go ahead and get this thing are I made and I will be back whenever I get the replacement unit which hopefully will not be DOA alright stay tuned for that alright so it is now 20 days later almost three weeks later and I have received my RMA as a matter of fact for the customers that I was originally setting this up for I had two customers that wanted one of these devices and I ended up ordering two brand one's and getting them in and I installed them in the meantime while I was waiting this RMA so this one is going to be mine I'll use it in my own office here maybe I'll sell it at some point who knows but I'm going to try it out for a while and basically see how I like it as a sort of day-to-day POS which in my office okay so here we go let's break out the box oh there's our replacement oh good okay so I don't need to go through the unboxing this time I'm just gonna open it up and plug it in and see if it works here we go moment of truth do I get the light right here there we go okay that scared me for a second I thought I got another one that was DOA so there we go lights firing up okay so I'm actually going to wait for this to boot up completely then I'm going to shut it down and move it over here and we're going to go ahead and adopt it out to my unify controller so that we can start seeing how to configure this switch for p OE for VLANs and all of the bells and whistles that you can do with the unify controller and your unify switch alright I'm going to shift over my computer now and continue the setup from there okay so I have the unify switch plugged in right here I have one cable going over to my edge switch which means that it's plugged into my local area network and I'm going to run the unify discovery tool or the ubiquity device discovery tool now this is a google chrome plugin free to download free to use and we can see here that I have three devices detected tuff switch edge router light and edge switch my 24 port edge switch so I don't see the unify switch until I come up here to the upper right hand corner and I click on unify family and now I can see unify switch 8p o e 151 and it was given the IP of 192 168 201 11 so we're going to click the action button and what we want to do is set in forum so I'm going to set in forum this device over to my cloud hosted unify controller ok so it's basically HTTP colon slash slash IP address or fqdn of your unified controller colon 8080 forward slash inform and then by default the username passwords you've ents we're going to say execute and if I come over here to my controller I'm on my home site here and if I click devices I should very shortly see that device appear and there it is okay so pending approval same IP address we're going to go ahead and say adopt and now it's going to go through the process of adopting the unify switch onto my unified controller for the site that I am currently connected to so after a couple minutes is going to go into a disconnected State at that point you just need to go back into your device discovery tool and set and form one more time and then it should pop right into the unified controller this is the same thing if you're doing it through SSH you have to do the set and form command twice in a row execute there we go and now if i refresh there we go provisioning so now we have the device provisioning in the meantime I'm going to go ahead and click on configuration I'm going to give it an alias I'm just going to call it unify switch 851 and we're going to save that and so after a little bit more time the light is solid blue now and we have a connected status in unify so let's go ahead and take a look at some of the options and the configuration settings that we can do with this thing first of all if I click on the dashboard I do now have a second Green bubble lit up that's kind of nice and I can go over to devices click on configuration we can look at networks and VLANs now I'm not going to have any VLANs right now I haven't set any up but if I go over to settings and networks and add a VLAN it will show up in here in fact let's go ahead and do that now settings we're going to click on networks create new network we're going to say VLAN only we're going to call this guests I'll call it VLAN 20 and we're going to go ahead and save that and now if I go back to the unify switch I should be able to choose that VLAN and use it as tagged or untagged on the ports of the unify swish so here we see now once i refresh I have a guests VLAN so I have native land and a native guests VLAN I can delete the guests VLAN if I want all right let's go ahead and go to services management land is land I can also change that to guests or my voice land if I want if I click on network configure IP of the device using DHCP I'm actually going to change that I want to set a static IP and it's going to be 207 let me make sure that doesn't that isn't in use already and it is not ok so there we go subnet mask is a Class C and our dns settings now we're going to go ahead and say Q changes and let's go over to copy config this is where you may copy a similar switches configuration on to this switch so we don't have any other switches with which to copy from so we're going to leave that alone and then of course you've got custom upgrade and forget this device or the last two options okay let's go ahead and submit that change apply now it's going to reprovision this switch with a static IP address and then once it comes back we'll take a look at the individual ports themselves ok so we are connected up by the way I do notice that there's an upgrade for this switch I'm not going to run the upgrade right now I will wait until the very end to hit the upgrade button because I don't want to take the time to do it on video let's go ahead let's go ahead and click on ports so here we have all of our different ports and let's say if I edit the first port here's what we can do so networks and VLANs we can say all or we can select just a single VLAN so we're going to say all essentially makes it a trunk port and then let's click on advanced option so here we have different operations this port is for switching for mirroring and if it's mirroring we can pick which other port we're mirroring or you can set it as aggregate link negotiation port isolation and then some storm control stuff we could also rename it we can rename each of these ports differently and here's where we can set it for POA Plus which is 802 3 AF or 24-volt passive for the proprietary ubiquity stuff so I'm not going to do too much with this switch right now you guys can kind of see the capabilities of it what I'd like to do though is I do get a lot of questions about these switches as comments on my youtube videos and so what do you guys want to see what are your questions about the unify switch I know I've had questions for hey let's compare this with the edge switch I'm probably not going to do a unify switch versus edge switch video but if you have specific questions about the unify switch I'd be happy to do a follow-up video where I discuss you know where I read your questions and then answer them or try to figure out the answer to those questions as part of that video so go ahead and put your questions about the switch down below or just tell me whether or not you would use this do you prefer this device over the edge switch or do you prefer the full-blown edge switch me personally I still prefer the full-blown edge switch though I know a lot of people do prefer the unify switch but I feel like mostly it's because they want to see all of those green lights lit up in the unified controller dashboard you know I feel like people like to have all of the likes green and they feel a little sense of accomplishment when they do that or something it's really really great marketing on the part of ubiquity quite frankly ok so my name is Chris with crosstalk solutions I hope you enjoyed this video if you did enjoy this video please give me a thumbs up it really absolutely helps the channel and I certainly appreciate every thought that I get and if you'd like to see more videos like this go ahead and click that subscribe button down below thank you so much for watching

Channel: Crosstalk Solutions

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Keywords: ubiquiti, ubnt, unifi switch, unifi controller, edgeswitch, edge switch, unifi 8 port switch, 8 port switch, us-8-150w

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Length: 15min 12sec (912 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 08 2016