I have Ubiquiti devices in my flat - can’t fault them. Work a charm. They can do DPI etc but remember the more stuff your edge firewall has to do, the more that CPU is whirring away and the slower packet delivery might become.
I’d question the clipboardies and ask them why that’s as valuable as they seem to think it is... On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 10:16, Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- On 6 Dec, 2018, at 08:09, Kevin Titmarsh | Wireless & Network > Consultant [email protected] wrote: > > Using Ubiquiti UniFi will be an absolute doddle for a deployment like > that, > > 20-25 users fairly usual for most offices using wireless to be fair, so > > something like a UAP nanoHD spread around the building to give max > coverage - > > depending on layout > > > > Router wise, you could use the USG Pro so its all in the same controller > to > > manage as it does have the failover / loadbalancing availability but to > be fair > > I personally always suggest sticking in a MikroTik as it's so powerful, > so > > perhaps a new RB4011UiAS-RM or even stepping up to a CCR1009-7G-1C-1S+ > as its > > got dual PSU for resilliance > > Morning Kevin - cheers for the feedback, that sounds quite wonderful and > exactly what we're after. > > To keep things simple, I'd be tempted to stick to the UniFi USG Pro if it > can do basic failover. > > But, that said, we do keep encountering security questionnaires asking if > we have Web Content Filtering/IDP on our office internet. We have a mobile > workforce, and have software deployed to all end user compute devices, but > for some reason the clipboard people want it on your edge firewall. So I am > pondering what we could do there. > > > > Install wise, sadly cant recommend anyone, however the UniFi stuff is > really > > easy to deploy, if you have used any centrally managed wireless in the > past its > > all very similar - put the units in, make a note of its MAC to label / > alias it > > later and spin up the controller (either on a CloudKey or download the > software > > and spin up a Linux VM) then run the wizard and adopt them, simple as > that 😊 > > > > Any Q's feel free to hit me up on or off list to explain > > Amazing cheers! > > >
