1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,120 Is this even real? 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:08,440 I remember getting the message about this and being like, but actually I kind of like 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:15,480 it. And if you're wondering what I'm referencing, this seemingly ordinary network switch, the 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,080 24 port ubiquity switch has RGB. 5 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:27,680 And not just like it has lights, every single one of these RJ45 ports has RGB lighting. 6 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,840 For why? Because why not? That's exactly why. 7 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,280 But also so you can like show what devices are in there and what's connected. 8 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,280 But damn it, it sounds so cool. 9 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:43,800 We've got standard ubiquity accessory package here, crack that open, hardware kit, that's 10 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:50,480 going to be your rack ear thingies. This is the fancy locking cable that they seem to be including on most of their switches 11 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:57,560 these days. And then there are the little rack ears. 12 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:06,120 I'm expecting in here that this is going to look pretty much the same as previous ubiquity 13 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,280 switches. I don't think you're going to be able to see, I mean I don't know, I haven't really looked 14 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,320 at it that closely. Let's see, maybe you can tell that they're different. 15 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:20,920 I guess it's got to be transparent in some capacity. Oh yeah, oh yeah. 16 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,600 You see in there? You see how it's white in the back? You can see that, right? 17 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,200 This is an Enterprise XG24. 18 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,560 It's black in the back because RGB. 19 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,760 Before we continue much further, I should probably introduce this switch. 20 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:43,160 This is the new Pro Max 24 PoE, part of their new Pro Max lineup, just like the iPhone. 21 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,920 Yep, it's almost like the CEO used to work at Apple or something. 22 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,680 You can see right there, it even says USW Pro Max. 23 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,760 I'm going to be honest, I feel like ubiquity's lineup is getting a little bit confusing. 24 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,640 You have like the old switches, which are listed as like in brackets Gen 1 on their website. 25 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:07,520 You have the Pro series, you have Enterprise, you have Pro Max now, you have, I think, what 26 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,520 else is there? There's got to be more. Oh, there's even standard. 27 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,800 I forgot about the standard ones. There's so many fricking switches. 28 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:20,760 There's even aggregation, which is confusing because one of the aggregations is a pro aggregation 29 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:27,960 and the other is just an aggregation. Is that one a standard product line item and that one a pro product line item? 30 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,520 I don't know. The point I'm trying to get across here is I'm just confused. 31 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,000 I'm going to put that aside for now and just focus on the things we do understand, like 32 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,840 what kind of ports are on this switch. We have eight PoE plus ports over here. 33 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,480 These just run a gigabit. We've got another eight PoE plus plus ports. 34 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,760 So those are, you know, a fair bit of wattage compared to these. 35 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:53,160 And then we have PoE plus plus 2.5 gig, which is something I've been wanting to see on a 36 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:59,440 ubiquity switch for a while now. And the reason for that is we have 2.5 gig U6 Enterprise access points. 37 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:04,480 So if I want to run those at 2.5 gig and also have PoE plus plus, I have to do that on two 38 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,840 different switches, at least up until now. 39 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,840 And then over here, we've got two 10 gig ports, pretty standard on a switch of this tier. 40 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,080 I like that compared to some of their previous 24 port PoE switches, all of the ports are 41 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,680 in a single line like this. So if we're using little cables to go into a patch panel, that's the next racking it 42 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:27,800 up. You don't have to like run cables like they just go one, one, one, one, one, nice and 43 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:33,480 smooth, which makes sense because it seems like a big part of this switch is, well, looks 44 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,600 given the RGB. We're going to turn that on soon. We've got their standard screen over there. 45 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,440 I'll rip the little sticker off and around back. We've got the AC power port. 46 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:47,920 That's the locking style I mentioned earlier. And then this guy, which is like a DC power in that they use with their redundant power 47 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:55,080 setup. I really wish I would stop seeing this and just give me just give me two of these two 48 00:03:55,080 --> 00:04:01,080 power supplies on the enterprise line. Maybe please got the little Unify Express. 49 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,920 It's a gateway and an AP in one. 50 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,920 And then our XG24, we're wired up to Ethernet. 51 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,200 So, oh, what did it do thing? Oh, it's doing things. That's so cool. 52 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:20,520 It's not going to make your games run faster, your downloads go faster or your network 53 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,400 more stable unless I guess you had like a really bad switch before. 54 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,320 But there is some utility to this. It's not just a looks cool gimmick. 55 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,280 Imagine you had a rack full of switches and you're like, damn, where is that device? 56 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:37,320 And you could just click on the port and go blink. 57 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,440 I mean, yeah, you can blink a switch port normally, but imagine all of the other 58 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,320 switches are blinking, right? Well, now there's a second light that's a lot bigger and more obvious. 59 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:54,320 Or you have, you know, a poop mix of like, I got APs spread across and I've got, you 60 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,160 know, access control spread across all of these, you know, hundreds of ports. 61 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:05,080 You can have them color coded. So say your APs are set to purple and your access control is set to yellow and 62 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,360 then normal devices are set to black or what about this? 63 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:14,080 Hey, VLAN configuration. Oh, that port set to the security VLAN. 64 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:20,640 It's just an easy visual thing. And to ubiquities point, there was a lot of people just being like, haha, that's 65 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:25,200 a stupid gimmick, but like who cares? It's, it's just a bonus feature. 66 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,400 The problem with this product. 67 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,720 It's not really their fault. And I don't really know that there was a way around it. 68 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:37,320 If you have normal Ethernet cables like this one that are blue, have a blue boot, 69 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:42,320 you can't see this one's not so bad because it's clear on this end. 70 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:48,080 I did try to find a cable. Oh, yeah, here, this is actually one of ubiquities own patch cables. 71 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,840 So talk about thinking ahead. Hey, so you plug that one in. 72 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:59,720 You actually, you can't see anything. Well, okay, you can, you can, but it's definitely not as cool as this one where 73 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:05,080 it's fully transparent and you can see through. So if you're thinking about buying one of these switches, because you like RGB, 74 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,480 consider the fact that you might have to replace literally all of your cables. 75 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:14,320 While this is a transparent one that works decently well, it's not the most 76 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,840 optimal ubiquity cell specific ether lighting cables, which is what they're 77 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:21,320 calling this RGB system that are translucent. 78 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,080 So they kind of catch some of the light and diffuse it. 79 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:32,040 That's going to give you the best effect for sure. These ones actually look okay because I just see it kind of bouncing off. 80 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:37,000 And this one actually is the hardest to see, but also studio lights. 81 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,440 Can we, can we, can we turn them off for a second? 82 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,600 Oh, it looks pretty cool, man. 83 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:48,440 It's not useless if you don't have the special cables, but it is definitely not 84 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:53,800 as good as long as you don't have patch cables that are, are 100% opaque. 85 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:56,560 It's interesting that the default is just strobing white. 86 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,160 You notice the, the port LEDs aren't on. 87 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,080 You see how there's LEDs up here to like indicate a connection. 88 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:11,400 They're off down here. Are any of them on? I'm very curious to see what options it gives you for like automatic colors. 89 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,320 Like for an LACP link, if you had, you know, a few cables that were, see, 90 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,120 at four cables that were in an aggregate link, you could just be like, 91 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,880 I want those ones to be green. And then the other aggregate link, how those ones are purple, you know, 92 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,880 there's lots of different ways to skin this cat. 93 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:32,000 That's such a horrible saying. There are also three other switches in the lineup. 94 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:37,360 A 48 port, a 48 port with PoE and a 24 port that isn't PoE will show their 95 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,640 specs on the screen somewhere. 96 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,040 Here you go. Come on, turn on for f***s sake. 97 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,320 Hey, oh my God. Why are those ones blue? 98 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:53,320 Okay. The coloring right now, I'm looking at, am I screen recording? 99 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,040 I'm screen recording. The coloring I'm, I'm seeing right now seems to correspond with the 100 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:02,120 fact that they're 2.5 gig. It's matching what is shown here. 101 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,560 If I go to settings, I have two options, neither of them are selected. 102 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:11,800 I can do speed or network and I can set brightness, colors, default. 103 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:13,240 Let's try green. 104 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,320 Oh yeah, there we go. That is not the green I selected. 105 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,680 Maybe not the highest CRI LEDs. Let's try purple. 106 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,240 Hey, okay, that looks pretty cool. 107 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,800 You know what? I want to see, what does it look like with the wrong cables? 108 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,000 Much less cool with not the right cables. Transparent cables, much better. 109 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,720 All right, I can do speed too. Okay, if I switch to speed, this is cool. 110 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,040 You can set the color of each speed. 111 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,240 You see that? They added RGB to that port. Good job, ubiquity. 112 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,800 Okay, let's see. Hey, look at that. That's pretty responsive. 113 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,800 Now, can I set a specific port to a color? 114 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:05,360 I was kind of expecting more customizability. 115 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,920 I'm not going to lie. In the present state, it's pretty basic. 116 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:13,320 You can set it based on your VLAN, like your native untagged network, or you 117 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:18,680 can set it based on speed. What I was talking about before about changing the port color to be based on 118 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:22,000 the type of device that's connected doesn't seem to be a thing. 119 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,880 It's only network and speed. 120 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:30,400 And I can't also just like go in and say, I want this one to be that color. 121 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,440 Okay, that's locate right there. That's pretty helpful. 122 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,360 If you had a rack full of switches and you're not really sure which one is which 123 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,960 and you were just like, ah, show me that one. 124 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,920 That's pretty good. It would be cool if you have like 10 of these switches and you did this. 125 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:50,960 It shut all of them off and just blinked to the one. I don't have another switch to test that, but if that's not the functionality, 126 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:57,960 they should, they should change that. I feel like it's probably just that it's early stages and more of these kind of 127 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:03,600 ideas and features will get added later on to make this more useful. 128 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,160 It's got most of the usefulness so far by device type would be nice. 129 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:11,160 And being able to dislike paint colors as I want would also be cool. 130 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,920 Maybe I have certain things plugged in that it wouldn't recognize as a device 131 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:21,120 type like say, I don't know. I have these ones are computers and these ones are wall ports and whatever. 132 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,720 And I want to color it myself. It would be good to be able to do that. 133 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:32,880 If I pick the closest other switch, they have feature wives, the pro 24 P O E, 134 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:39,400 which has been around for a while. They're both layer three capable, have 400 Watts of power output, have the same 135 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:44,280 amount of ports, they both have the 10 gigs here and then 24 other ports. 136 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:50,920 It's a hundred US dollars more for this one, but you're also getting 2.5 gig 137 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:57,160 on eight of the ports. That's pretty much, oh yeah, you also get more P O E plus plus ports, although 138 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,160 you don't necessarily have more power budget to use it per se. 139 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:03,400 It doesn't seem to be ridiculously more expensive or anything. 140 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,600 I mean, a hundred US dollars, I could easily see a network vendor charging 141 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,560 just for the fact that it has eight 2.5 gig ports. Like I could totally see that. 142 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:17,480 But overall, I mean, it's cool. They should just put this on all of the switches as long as it doesn't really 143 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:23,200 increase the price. Hopefully we can get translucent cables that work good with it from other 144 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,440 vendors for less money. And hopefully they make the software more flexible. 145 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,880 I really want to be able to just like paint them any color I want or set it by 146 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,240 device or adjust the effect. 147 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:40,840 Maybe I just want my switch to be like rainbow. They have that in the product photo, you know, when you adopted it, it was like 148 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,520 rainbow. Why doesn't it do that? I don't know what happened. 149 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:53,000 Oh my God, thank you. Oh, I updated to the next version, which is like 0.02 higher. 150 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,760 And now I can turn off breathing mode. This looks way better like this. 151 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,400 I'd probably wait a few more months and see what sort of features they enable, 152 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,360 but it's cool. And just props to ubiquity for trying to do something a little bit different in 153 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:11,000 a market segment that just like doesn't change at all. Like, oh, there's the faster ports. 154 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,920 Woo. So if you liked this video and other networking videos, hit the like button, 155 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,360 get subscribed, tell me in the comments what you think about this.