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If there's one thing Ubiquiti is known for, it's Wi-Fi, specifically making really fast,

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high-density Wi-Fi in a form factor that's relatively affordable, at least when you put it

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in the scope of the crazy expensive enterprise solutions of today. Contrary to that is this,

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Ubiquiti's new Cloud Key Enterprise. This, as far as I can tell, is the single most expensive

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Ubiquiti product at a whopping 5,000 US dollars. Can you see me here? The set wasn't exactly built

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for items this large. We've got rails. Yep, this is rack-mountable. We've got two power cables.

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More on that later. Oh my god. That's heavy. Here's a little size comparison. We've got a

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normal Cloud Key Gen 2, and we've got a Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus. It's a little bit bigger.

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I don't know if it's really fair to call this thing a key anymore. This is the president's key.

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Unlocks all of the locks in the kingdom. With the fascia off on the front here,

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we've got a standard 1.3-inch Ubiquiti LCM, which is the little screen they have on the front.

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We've got a 1GIG RJ45 port, and they've also got a 10GIG SFP port. Now, I talked to the

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Ubiquiti folks and asked them, really? Is this thing ever going to pull 10GIG? But as I expected,

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it's more so just because this is designed to be put in a very large or enterprise deployment,

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and you're probably going to want to plug this thing in with fiber. And if you just had an RJ45,

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it would be kind of annoying. Around the back, that's a dedicated management port,

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something we have not seen on a Unify class product. And then on this side,

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we've got another thing I'm super stoked about, two removable, redundant, normal-ass AC power

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supplies. You know, on a $1,500 switch, like, say, the Enterprise XG24 or the Enterprise 48 PoE,

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those should have these. And I really hope that this is where the future is headed for Ubiquiti.

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You can get replacement power supplies for the Cloud King Enterprise

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from support, and they are working on adding them to the store, which is great.

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Did they put wheels on this thing? Holy s***, they put wheels on the thing.

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It slides so nice! Look at that! I'm an adult, okay? I can do what I want.

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Got my handy-dandy custom screwdriver I built at LTX. You can at least get

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a solid color now on LTX Store. Realistically, you're probably never going to open this thing.

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I'm a little surprised! Like, I knew it was just going to be a server. I just didn't expect it to

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be so kind of off the shelf. You see that right there? What the heck is that? That's an SFP.

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And for the uninitiated, that SFP is the front 10-gig port, so this is just like an internal

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pass-through. I'm going to take this off for sure. Look at that. It's literally just

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a dual-port SFP 10-gig card. This is a pushy thing. It's a release. Holy s***. That's smart.

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And also easily serviceable. They're using high-quality components. So for your $5,000,

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you're not getting like no-name RAM. It's actually a Samsung DDR4 stick of memory.

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Kingston SATA SSD over here is, well, it's a Kingston SSD. I mean, it's an OEM one,

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but it's not, you know, no-name brand, whatever. Oh, look at that! You see that right there?

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It's an IPMI BMC chip, like you would see in a server. Or maybe when you connect to this

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management port, it's just giving you like a standard IPMI interface. Being able to like

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remotely power cycle this thing would be sick and something I've had to do on my cloud keys,

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but couldn't because it was remote. Now, speaking of CPU, this is a 16-core Xeon SP5218.

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The MSRP of this chip is around $1,500. And now that I've seen that it's basically an OEM

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server with the UniFi software on it, you know, there's two sticks of DDR4, there's a CPU,

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there's a CPU cooler, there's the motherboard, all the fans, the two power supplies, the dual 10-gig

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NIC. Well, that $5,000 price point starts to make a little bit more sense. I mean, at least $1,500

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of it is the CPU. I guess I should put this thing back together and try it out. We are gonna need!

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If I was gonna adopt all of this stuff on a computer, I'd need to connect to it,

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but it's a lot easier to do on a phone because this has Bluetooth. So if we go to the UniFi app,

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look at that! Wow! The pretty animation. Cloud Key Enterprise. I'm gonna call it,

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I don't, I feel like a key is disingenuous now, so I'm gonna call it the Cloud Thicky Enterprise.

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Okay, all of our devices are detected. Great, I didn't break anything. So it needs an update.

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In theory though, this should update like a lot faster. I mean, on a Cloud Key,

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usually it takes a couple minutes to stop, update, turn back on, figure this stuff out.

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Okay, that was definitely faster. Maybe the update wasn't super noticeably faster,

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but once UniFi OS was loaded, the network app went from starting to started in like a second.

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Just, it just seems way more responsive. But I mean, that responsiveness is nice. I mean,

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we use a Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus like this, which has the same CPU as the small one,

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just with a bit more RAM, with around 100 UniFi devices. So that switches and access points,

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and around 300 to 700 clients, depending on the time of day. And you can tell sometimes when the

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Cloud Key is like, you apply a switch configuration change, and it might take 10 seconds or 15

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seconds or maybe a minute to actually propagate. So having a lot more compute, just in terms of the

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responsiveness would be nice. And it's something I've desired for in the past. We're definitely

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going to deploy this. What does Ubiquiti IPMI look like? Look at that! Just that it's a totally

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normal IPMI. Health is good. We've got postcode logs, which is great. I mean, this is all pretty

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standard stuff for IPMI. Holy s***, there's a KVM. No way. No way! In theory, you can do anything you

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want in here. But you probably shouldn't. I wouldn't mess around with this, but it is helpful to see

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at least what the system is doing. These are the kind of enterprise features that

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something like this needs. If I run a speed test now, we should see the speed test traffic. 500

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megabit. Look at that. Down. 600. Ooh! Yeah, there's some new insights. The Wi-Fi insights are

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definitely new. They've got a coverage helper tool that just shows you all of the signal strength

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of your various devices to tell you if your AP density is good enough. They've got this connectivity

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thing that shows you problematic clients. You can see an environment scan that shows all of the

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nearby access points and the channels they're using. It's pretty much all I would expect to see.

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I'd really like to see SNMP so you could monitor this machine a little easier. But in terms of

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being able to access the things you would want to access in an IPM, power controls, virtual KVM,

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serial over land, and manual network settings, it's pretty much there. I can even test latency.

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Here we go. There you go. So you can see that this is to this phone in my hand right now. Oh,

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what if I want to see maybe my laptops paying? Click on the laptop, test latency. There you go.

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Super handy if somebody is like, I'm having Wi-Fi issues. You can just kind of go and do a sanity

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check. I mean, overall, it works pretty much the same as any other cloud key. It seems far more

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serviceable. It's got redundant power supplies. It has actual IPMI. I can see somebody that has

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all of these devices, has a bunch of sites, having just one giant cloud key instead of a bunch of

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little ones can be very attractive. It does seem to me, however, that maybe they should make a cloud

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key enterprise-ish or a cloud key enterprise plus NVR, maybe just like a normal ATX board size,

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just one gig less money would be cool. Probably overkill for you and it certainly is for us,

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but I'm going to put it in the rack anyways and I hope you guys like this video. So get subscribed.

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Oh man, if you can take the software on this thing and put it on one of those mini forum necks,

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I know you can get the Unify network app and install it, but it's not really the same as the

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fully fledged Unify OS experience.