It might not be the case everywhere, but in many major cities across the world,
faster than gigabit internet, 2.5 gig, 3 gig, 5 gig, 8 gig, 10 gigabit internet
is becoming more common every day. And
frankly, there's just not a lot of options if you want a router that can
actually take advantage of those things. And maybe not just take advantage of it
on a router level with one 1 Gbit port, but take advantage of it for all your
devices. Pass that 10 GB, 5 GB, however
faster than 1 GB internet you have to the rest of your network. And this new
product from Ubiquiti, the Cloud Gateway Fiber is supposed to do just that. And
you'll see what I mean in a second. A little bit bigger. This is the big
brother to their Cloud Gateway Max. Kind of looks like you took two Cloud Gateway
Maxes and glued them together. Maybe like 1.8 eight of them. We've also got a
power brick. This thing doesn't use USBC. That's interesting. It's just a DC
barrel jack, but it does Oh, boy. This is a 54 volt 1.1 amp power brick. So,
that's around 60 watts max. And it just uses a normal barrel jack. Now, how long
is this cable? I'm jumping the gun a little bit. We've got the Oh, see,
there's an AC power cable. I like this a lot. See, some companies give you a
power brick like this, and it's got the prongs on it, and you go right into the wall, which sucks if you have
applications that don't support that very well, and also doesn't make it very
uh international friendly. This one, on the other hand, uses a C5 cable and a C6
socket to allow you to Well, I mean, with this little cable, this looks like
a little two-footer. Might be a little bit longer than that. Let's just measure it. So, we've
got a twoft AC to C5 cable. And then
we've got our C6 power brick with another 5T on there. That gives you
around 7 ft of power cable, which is a fair bit. And if you for whatever
reason, we're using this in like a server rack or something, which as you'll see in a minute here, you totally
could. You could get a different cable and hook right up to your PDU or if you
were in Europe or whatever. Yeah, easy peasy. We've got propaganda. Wait,
there's two baggies of feet. Is there supposed to be two bags of feet? And then one of those cute ether lighting
cables. I don't actually think that this thing has ether lighting, which if
you're not familiar is RGB lighting on the uh the Ethernet ports of Ubiquiti
products, some of them. Anyways, they've got these special cables that are translucent that help diffuse the RGB
and make it look cool. But these ones, not only are they shielded, but it
actually has sle to it, which looks pretty nice. Oh my god. This isn't a
drilling template. This template that came in the box is a template for
putting the feet on. It's not a drilling template.
Huh. I guess I I screwed up. I put the feet in the wrong spot. We've got the
signature ubiquity little screen on the front. This is a 0.96 in little display
there. And then on the bottom, the feet that I definitely applied in a
symmetrical manner. We've got some ventilation. And then on the back,
that's what you really want to see. Look at that. Starting on the left, we have a
four port 2.5 GB switch right here. Look at that. That's beautiful. Lovely. 10 of
10. very happy to see that one of which
if you look really closely has PoE PoE
plus that is so not only do you have a
bunch of ports to use but one of them can be PoE plus so you can actually run
an access point directly off this thing no switch required no PoE injector
that's sick also got another RJ45 this
is a 10 Gbit one used as a WAN input in case you're not coming off of SFP we've
got another 10 Gbit SFP P plus port,
which is a LAN port. That's what I was saying earlier. You can pass your up to
10 GB internet connection through to another device or to a switch or
whatever you want. And then we've got another SFP plus 10 GB port, but that is
a WAN port. Knowing Ubiquiti, you'll be able to reassign these, I'm sure. And I
bet you you can use this one as a LAN port, but we'll check that later. We've
got our DC barrel jack input here, and then a recessed reset button. I've been
seeing on some Ubiquiti products recently that they've been doing like a nice reset button on the bottom that
doesn't require a pokey bit to get into. Would have liked to see that here, but
also this thing is just pretty baller. Now, all of this is pretty sick, but it
gets even sicker when we get to the price, which I'm not going to tell you yet because we still have to look at the
other side, which has the storage. It's
got a little sneaky little little sneaky link on the side here, a little little
little Porterino that you can put an M.2
SSD in. Um, they don't actually include the tray. you have to buy that
separately for $19. Um, but you can also buy it with
storage pre-installed either in a 1 TB or a 2 TB or with no storage at all.
Although given the fact that it has like the network configuration, I imagine
there is some amount of storage in here, it's just not enough to run like
security cameras or UniFi Talk, which is
their voiceover IP phone solution, or connect or anything like that. And
that's important because this thing can run all of those things at the same
time, including being a router and doing your networking. So, why don't we plug
it in and see? I don't actually know if this one came with storage to be honest.
They only sell up to two TB and only rate it for up to two TB, but you can
get 8 TB M.2 SSDs. So, in theory, you
could put 8 TB of storage in here. It's not as much as you can put in a Dream Machine Pro, which has a hard drive
port. You put like 30 terabytes in there these days, but 8 terabytes is a lot,
especially if you're, you know, only got a couple cameras or whatever. So, let's
plug this bang girl in here. Can you guys guess what's on the
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Oh, yeah. Hey, look at that. Again, just
like on the Gateway Max, I really don't love that this port is not useful for
normies unless you buy that $19 tray or you buy it with storage. You can't throw
your own M.2 SSD in here if you buy it with no storage. You have to buy the tray. You can 3D print models. I've
already seen people make models for this, but come on, Ubiquiti. Like, it's
got to be like a $1 part to make. Like, just include it in the box. What the
heck, guys? Oh, there's a fan in there.
Oh, yeah. You hear the air? Yeah. So, it's not just passive. It's got a little
got a little fan in there. It's incredibly quiet. Look at that cloud
gateway fiber tap to set up. Damn, look
at those internet speeds. Internally, it's a quad core ARMbased A73 processor
clocking up to 2.2 GHz. It's got 3 GB of
RAM. They don't list the internal storage because I imagine it's not very
much. And you also have that M.2 slot. Has a 30 W PoE budget of output power
for PoE Plus. and it can draw a max
power consumption of 29.4 watts excluding PoE. Let me switch over to the
laptop and we'll continue from there. I got this Sonet Tech Solo 10G 10 GB to
Thunderbolt adapter here for my laptop so we can do some speed tests at full
speed. Let's take a look at this thing. She looks mint there, buddy. So, I've
got our SFP port using a little SFP to
RJ45 adapter. That's our internet coming in. And then I'm using the other one
that is also labeled as a WAN port as a LAN port because I adjusted the
configuration and it just worked. Sick. So that's plugging in our laptop here.
Let me turn the Wi-Fi off. And then there we go. Lovely. Okay,
look at this. We got open speed test running that is on a device that is on
this network. And if we just we just hit it with some gas here. In theory, this
should be able to saturate pretty dang close to 10 GB. Uh the port that it's on
on the other side technically does have some other things running on it. So, I
wouldn't be surprised if it's more like 9 or 8, but we should get really close.
8 gig down, 9.7 up. I mean, that's
basically what I expected. 9 gig. Come
on, give it to me. I mean, it's pretty
clear to me that this thing can route at 10 GB, like pretty much without any
issues. I mean, there's always going to be a little bit of overhead and realistically, who knows what's going on
in this Thunderbolt dock. And like I said, the port on the other side could
also be doing some other stuff. But we did successfully do a 9 gigabit download
test and a 9.7 almost 9.8 gigabit upload
test. So, as far as I'm concerned, this thing can do what it says it can do.
This thing can handle a full 10 GB internet connection. Just doing a speed
test over the internet, no problem. And it also can do, if you're into it and
you have some network security stuff, IPS and IDS up to 5 GB as per the
rating. They also rate it for 50 plus UniFi devices under management. That
could be like 20 switches and 20 access points and still have 10 plus to spare
and 500 plus active clients connected. That means you could have a ton of
different people on the network running off this tiny little device which
honestly is still barely even getting warm. All righty. Look at this here,
boys and girls. In this little stack I got here, I got a cloud gateway fiber,
our 10 GB router here running all of our UniFi apps. I got a little camera
plugged in directly into the PoE port. So that's being powered off of it. You
can see she's right there. And then we've got the new UniFi Express 7, which
is like an all-in-one access point gateway kind of device, but it doesn't
do all the other apps. I'm using it as an access point because I didn't have an
access point over here, but I did have this. We'll have a video on this soon.
We go back to our network device here. We can see our Cloud Gateway Max rocks
here working great. Everything's great. We got our camera adopted. We've got our
Express 7 access point adopted. So, we've got a Wi-Fi network going off of
that. We've got this going off that. I have IDS and IPS, which is intrusion
detection and intrusion prevention, which if you're not familiar, they're
just security features you can use to analyze the traffic on your network and
try to block threats at a network level. They're not always the most effective,
to be honest. Um, there are usually better ways of doing that, like endpoint
protection, but it is part of a security stack that you definitely can use and
these devices can run. And in theory, this one can run it at 5 GB, it says.
So, I want to run a little another speed test here. 7 gigabit download with IPS
and IDS turned on and in the most maximum annoying blockage hardcore uh
mode. Look at that. 9.7 9 I'm getting
full 10 GB upload and like 6.5 to 7 GB
download with it fully on even though they only rate it for 5 GB. So, if
you're looking for something that can do IPS and IDS, even with a 5 GB internet
connection, even with a I guess a 7 GB Ethernet connection, this can do it. And
that's not even like with it not doing anything. We have this security camera
running off of it. Hey, go. Hey. But man, this thing is a freaking tank. You
can have multiple WANs, load balance them, fail them over. In my mind, this
thing, if you don't need a hard drive slot, for basically everyone, just
slaughters the base Ubiquiti Dream Machine, which is more expensive. If we
go to Ubiquiti's website and look under cloud gateways, the cloud gateway fiber
is $280 and can handle a full 10 GB routing
setup and IPS and IDs up to 5 GB for 280
bucks. If we look at the Dream Machine Pro, it's $380. There's another hundred
bucks on top. It is rated for a bit more. In theory, it can do a,000
simultaneous users and 100 plus devices, which is double what this is in theory
rated for, but it has lower IDS and IPS
throughput. It's only rated for 3.5 GB. It also has a hard drive slot, but it
doesn't have PoE output. Honestly, for most people's use cases, especially if
you're going to have a Switch anyways, or especially if you have an NVR, this
thing freaking kills. I mean, dang, it kind of speaks for itself. If you're
somebody that has above 1 GB internet
and you have discrete other devices already, like you already have access
points or you already have an NVR. I mean, honestly, even if you don't have
an MVR, you only need a few cameras, you already have a Switch if you need more
than four ports, like it honestly slays. The only things I could really think I
would want is like a rack mount accessory for it. So, you could rack
mount two of these maybe high availability setup, you know? or uh a
USB port so you could have external storage like an external hard drive if
you wanted to run protect. Now I know they don't do that because a it has an
M.2 but there's capacity limitations there and B because I don't want to
fully cannibalize the Dream Machine lineup but man this thing this thing is
pretty sick. is making me regret my my decision to build a DIY router cuz for
$279 USD you you're going to have a really hard time building a router that
can do 10 Gbit. I don't even know if it's possible honestly. But you know
what is possible? Hitting the like button and leaving a comment about what
you think about this thing. I don't know that they have high availability for
these yet. I'd have to check. But once they do, man, these
things, even when they don't, like small business, this thing slays.