WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.120 Is this even real? 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:08.440 I remember getting the message about this and being like, but actually I kind of like 00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:15.480 it. And if you're wondering what I'm referencing, this seemingly ordinary network switch, the 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:20.080 24 port ubiquity switch has RGB. 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. 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:31.840 For why? Because why not? That's exactly why. 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:35.280 But also so you can like show what devices are in there and what's connected. 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.280 But damn it, it sounds so cool. 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:43.800 We've got standard ubiquity accessory package here, crack that open, hardware kit, that's 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 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:57.560 these days. And then there are the little rack ears. 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 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 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.320 at it that closely. Let's see, maybe you can tell that they're different. 00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:20.920 I guess it's got to be transparent in some capacity. Oh yeah, oh yeah. 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? 00:01:24.600 --> 00:01:28.200 This is an Enterprise XG24. 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:31.560 It's black in the back because RGB. 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:34.760 Before we continue much further, I should probably introduce this switch. 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. 00:01:43.160 --> 00:01:47.920 Yep, it's almost like the CEO used to work at Apple or something. 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:52.680 You can see right there, it even says USW Pro Max. 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. 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. 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 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:10.520 else is there? There's got to be more. Oh, there's even standard. 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:14.800 I forgot about the standard ones. There's so many fricking switches. 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:20.760 There's even aggregation, which is confusing because one of the aggregations is a pro aggregation 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? 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. 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 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:39.840 what kind of ports are on this switch. We have eight PoE plus ports over here. 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:43.480 These just run a gigabit. We've got another eight PoE plus plus ports. 00:02:43.480 --> 00:02:46.760 So those are, you know, a fair bit of wattage compared to these. 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 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. 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 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:07.840 different switches, at least up until now. 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. 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 00:03:55.080 --> 00:04:01.080 power supplies on the enterprise line. Maybe please got the little Unify Express. 00:04:02.200 --> 00:04:04.920 It's a gateway and an AP in one. 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:08.920 And then our XG24, we're wired up to Ethernet. 00:04:09.480 --> 00:04:13.200 So, oh, what did it do thing? Oh, it's doing things. That's so cool. 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 00:04:20.520 --> 00:04:24.400 more stable unless I guess you had like a really bad switch before. 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.320 But there is some utility to this. It's not just a looks cool gimmick. 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? 00:04:34.280 --> 00:04:37.320 And you could just click on the port and go blink. 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:42.440 I mean, yeah, you can blink a switch port normally, but imagine all of the other 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. 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 00:04:54.320 --> 00:04:58.160 know, access control spread across all of these, you know, hundreds of ports. 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 00:05:05.080 --> 00:05:08.360 then normal devices are set to black or what about this? 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:14.080 Hey, VLAN configuration. Oh, that port set to the security VLAN. 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 00:05:20.640 --> 00:05:25.200 a stupid gimmick, but like who cares? It's, it's just a bonus feature. 00:05:25.400 --> 00:05:28.400 The problem with this product. 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. 00:05:32.840 --> 00:05:37.320 If you have normal Ethernet cables like this one that are blue, have a blue boot, 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. 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. 00:05:48.440 --> 00:05:51.840 So talk about thinking ahead. Hey, so you plug that one in. 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 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, 00:06:05.400 --> 00:06:08.480 consider the fact that you might have to replace literally all of your cables. 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:14.320 While this is a transparent one that works decently well, it's not the most 00:06:14.320 --> 00:06:17.840 optimal ubiquity cell specific ether lighting cables, which is what they're 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:21.320 calling this RGB system that are translucent. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.080 So they kind of catch some of the light and diffuse it. 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. 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:37.000 And this one actually is the hardest to see, but also studio lights. 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:40.440 Can we, can we, can we turn them off for a second? 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.600 Oh, it looks pretty cool, man. 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 00:06:48.440 --> 00:06:53.800 as good as long as you don't have patch cables that are, are 100% opaque. 00:06:53.840 --> 00:06:56.560 It's interesting that the default is just strobing white. 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:00.160 You notice the, the port LEDs aren't on. 00:07:00.760 --> 00:07:03.080 You see how there's LEDs up here to like indicate a connection. 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. 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:16.320 Like for an LACP link, if you had, you know, a few cables that were, see, 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:20.120 at four cables that were in an aggregate link, you could just be like, 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, 00:07:24.280 --> 00:07:26.880 there's lots of different ways to skin this cat. 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:32.000 That's such a horrible saying. There are also three other switches in the lineup. 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 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.640 specs on the screen somewhere. 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:44.040 Here you go. Come on, turn on for f***s sake. 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:48.320 Hey, oh my God. Why are those ones blue? 00:07:48.840 --> 00:07:53.320 Okay. The coloring right now, I'm looking at, am I screen recording? 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 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:02.120 fact that they're 2.5 gig. It's matching what is shown here. 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.560 If I go to settings, I have two options, neither of them are selected. 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:11.800 I can do speed or network and I can set brightness, colors, default. 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:13.240 Let's try green. 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:19.320 Oh yeah, there we go. That is not the green I selected. 00:08:20.960 --> 00:08:24.680 Maybe not the highest CRI LEDs. Let's try purple. 00:08:27.400 --> 00:08:29.240 Hey, okay, that looks pretty cool. 00:08:30.440 --> 00:08:34.800 You know what? I want to see, what does it look like with the wrong cables? 00:08:35.880 --> 00:08:40.000 Much less cool with not the right cables. Transparent cables, much better. 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.720 All right, I can do speed too. Okay, if I switch to speed, this is cool. 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:48.040 You can set the color of each speed. 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.240 You see that? They added RGB to that port. Good job, ubiquity. 00:08:52.920 --> 00:08:56.800 Okay, let's see. Hey, look at that. That's pretty responsive. 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.800 Now, can I set a specific port to a color? 00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:05.360 I was kind of expecting more customizability. 00:09:05.800 --> 00:09:08.920 I'm not going to lie. In the present state, it's pretty basic. 00:09:08.920 --> 00:09:13.320 You can set it based on your VLAN, like your native untagged network, or you 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 00:09:18.680 --> 00:09:22.000 the type of device that's connected doesn't seem to be a thing. 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.880 It's only network and speed. 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. 00:09:30.880 --> 00:09:33.440 Okay, that's locate right there. That's pretty helpful. 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 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:38.960 and you were just like, ah, show me that one. 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. 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, 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 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:03.600 ideas and features will get added later on to make this more useful. 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:07.160 It's got most of the usefulness so far by device type would be nice. 00:10:07.160 --> 00:10:11.160 And being able to dislike paint colors as I want would also be cool. 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.920 Maybe I have certain things plugged in that it wouldn't recognize as a device 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. 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. 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, 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 00:10:39.400 --> 00:10:44.280 amount of ports, they both have the 10 gigs here and then 24 other ports. 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 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 00:10:57.160 --> 00:11:00.160 you don't necessarily have more power budget to use it per se. 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:03.400 It doesn't seem to be ridiculously more expensive or anything. 00:11:03.920 --> 00:11:07.600 I mean, a hundred US dollars, I could easily see a network vendor charging 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. 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 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:23.200 increase the price. Hopefully we can get translucent cables that work good with it from other 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.440 vendors for less money. And hopefully they make the software more flexible. 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 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:34.240 device or adjust the effect. 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 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:44.520 rainbow. Why doesn't it do that? I don't know what happened. 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. 00:11:53.400 --> 00:11:57.760 And now I can turn off breathing mode. This looks way better like this. 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.400 I'd probably wait a few more months and see what sort of features they enable, 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 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. 00:12:11.640 --> 00:12:14.920 Woo. So if you liked this video and other networking videos, hit the like button, 00:12:14.920 --> 00:12:18.360 get subscribed, tell me in the comments what you think about this.