{"id":5319,"date":"2016-08-05T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2016-08-05T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:12:40","slug":"ubiquiti-edgeswitch-16-xg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=5319","title":{"rendered":"Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 XG"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"edgeswitch16\"<\/p>\n

The Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 16 XG<\/a> is UBNT’s new 16 port 10Gb switch.<\/p>\n

It boasts:<\/p>\n

  • 12 SFP+ ports<\/li>\n
  • 4 RJ45 ports that support 1Gb or 10Gb<\/li>\n
  • 360Gbps throughput<\/li>\n
  • 238.1 MPPS<\/li>\n
  • 36W of power on chassis alone(no optics)<\/li>\n
  • Serial console port<\/li>\n
  • Web interface<\/li>\n
  • “Industry standard CLI” – Which I take to mean Cisco like<\/li>\n
  • Price around $550<\/strong><\/li>\n

    I’ve heard nothing but good things about the existing edgeswitches, and this one is shaping up to be no different.<\/p>\n

    It looks like all ports are line rate, which is really expected from any switch manufactured these days.<\/p>\n

    Oddly enough they mention some routing capabilities: Static routing(up to 16 routes), Policy Based Routing, 15 routed interfaces. I don’t believe they have any numbers for routing, so just pretend like this isn’t an option. Looking at the rest of the features, this is truly a switch, and should be treated as such.<\/p>\n

    They also mention this can act as a DHCP server…which is also very strange to me. I’m sure there is a use case somewhere for it. Specs show 128 pools with a max of 2048 leases, which would be a fair sized property.<\/p>\n

    It also has:<\/p>\n

  • IPv4 and IPv6 Mgmnt support<\/li>\n
  • SNMP<\/li>\n
  • 802.1x for authenticated access to ports<\/li>\n
  • 255 VLANs – which should be plenty for most sites<\/li>\n
  • 8K MAC addresses – again, should be plenty<\/li>\n
  • STP\/RSTP\/MSTP support for loop prevention<\/li>\n
  • 4 MSTP instances<\/li>\n
  • 802.1ad for Link Aggregation(LAG){up to 6 instances} – You Cisco guys would call it etherchannel – linux would call it bonding<\/li>\n
  • Access lists(filtering traffic) – 100 with up to 10 rules per port<\/li>\n
  • Looks like fairly standard QoS support – at these speeds, especially with LAGs, it seems hard to think you would be overrunning port speeds<\/li>\n

    I’m excited to see these guys hit the market. This will, by a WIDE margin, be the cheapest 10Gb switch I’ve seen hit the market. I can’t wait to get my hands on one to test with. At this price point, I won’t be surprised to see it hit the core of some enterprise, not just provider networks. <\/p>\n

    At some point in the future I’d love to see multichassis link aggregation(MLAG). This gives you the ability to do a LAG from a single device(like a router) to two different switches. The router has no idea that he is connecting to multiple chassis, yet allows for failure of either switch to be absorbed.<\/p>\n

    Let me know your thoughts in the comments…will you guys be putting these to work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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