They love making their proprietary racks all pretty. The ibm or dell storage solutions come in racks designed to look like spaceships compared to the more standard style racks like the one Linus recently got a pink version of.
red/green is a terrible outdated color scheme imo with the amount of people that are red/green colorblind, a small glowing LED is hard to tell the two colors apart.
@@TokoloziI mean, they could also just pick a different color scheme that’s also semantically clear but doesn’t have accessibility issues 😅 I’m not a UX designer but this is a very solved problem
@@bakedbeanfanclub red/green is surely the most obvious. I think most people transpose the red/yellow/green traffic light analogy to mean high/medium/low, no?
RGB has always made sense for color coding. Imagine having your entire PC case glowing red because your fans are set to do that when you overheat. It's possible to set up.
yeah but they also have an AR feature where the little screen displays a qr code and then your phone or tablet shows you live whats conencted where at the ports
There actually is an easy way around that cable covering up the light problem - that huge amount of space above each port, they could simply have the RBG lights there right above each port nice and clear so yeah all kinds of IT teams could use the RGB as color coding to make managing racks full of these far simpler for their IT teams. Pretty cool feature with lots of potential if you think outside of the box and don't just associate "anything RGB = gamer lulz".
Starting a networking job (Which wont be on site most of the time), I was quite excited for this. If when I need something doing, instead of having to drive to site or try and painfully tell someone how to find the right port, I could just light it up remotely and say "that one". Also having them set to the VLAN is really nice. Hoping they do flesh this out a bit more, some of the other features I would imagine are currently on the beta firmware.
Imagine cables using some cheap fiber optics integrated in them, to not only light up the plug on the switch side, but also on the other end! If you’d want to see where a cable run ends, just blink the light on the port and see where else in the rack/building it lights up! One of my previous employers uses cables similar to that, but you can just use a little device that clips onto the connector and does the same.
Exactly this. This is what I expected to be the use case for, because you can already see in the interface which port is what if you want. But apparently it's not. I hope someone will get this idea to reality, I would be happy to adopt that the next network deployment in our office. Even when the network engineer out of office, he could point out a cable someone should use. There's many use cases to me where it would be useful to light the other end instead the switch side.
@@JacksonCampbell yeah, you’d need compatible keystones as well in that case, but I don’t think it would be all that difficult to engineer. It’d probably cost quite a bit more for the purchasing party, but it would make life for network engineers so much easier. My dad told me that someone at his workplace moved his desk and setup stuff to another room, and then plugged in a pc on a voip ethernet socket. Due to the config of vlan’s and the addition of a new IPS, that brought down the network itself apparently. There’s a lot more wrong with this than just the improperly labeled outlet and the person just plugging things in willy nilly, but to be able to label it correctly, knowing what runs where would be a lot easier with tech like this.
Out of the box thinking on Ubiquiti's part, what a great idea. And you only need to replace the cables on ports/configs you want to give RGB meaning like this group is the LAG, or these ports are for access points (I know you said that function isn't there yet, but I am hoping it is in their long term plan. They wouldn't need to do anything other than just let you set the color without regard for the things they currently set the color for). Very cool!!!
I could see RGB lighting being soooo useful in networking simply because of being able to color code at the device which things are what, which would absolutely pay for itself in saved time from having to read port numbers or label everything with labelmaker labels that fall off or rub off after a while. Especially if you have someone who’s your boots on the ground but doesn’t necessarily have access to accounts and stuff but you’re talking them through the situation, which happens at my work all the time. Hopefully they add further logic functionality in the lighting, because I could absolutely see a use for this right now.
I would love to see a home setup that's normal like a couple poe cameras, a few acess points, a few general plug ins, and then maybe a small home storage. Also a few videos on how to set it up would be cool.
+1. My dad wants to set up their home with security cameras, and it would be nice to see how to do it properly. Currently he just bought a cheap option that has to connect to the home network, and has its own proprietary mobile app to look at the camera feed. Standard and cost-efficient options would be especially interesting.
Having the ability to identify things visually is great. I feel like there should be an indicator above/below the port and not just IN the port, that way you don't have to worry about opaque cables blocking it, or getting the special transparent cables. [I'd like it to be both, and if I had money I'd get the special transparent cables, it does look lovely]
I can confirm on Ubiquiti not being able to recognize everything, that whenever I look at my connected devices, my Arch Linux desktop will show as a Steam Deck in unifi network even though it is not that specific distro.
Or magically you Black magic design ATEM mini has packet loss through a ubiquti switch. and your trying to figure out why your live stream is being throttled.
The steam deck's OS is a modified arch linux, so it likely sends the same vendor string. It's still insanely stupid to show all archs as decks and not the other way around (or to use the mac address to tell them apart) though...
@@aysnov The mac address might not be constant. A lot of mobile devices randomise the MACs, unless you specifically tell them otherwise, and I could see the steam deck being no exception.
Hit the nail on the head: they should add this to everything AND THEY SHOULD MAKE IT CUSTOMIZABLE!! As someone who uses Ubiquiti products quite a lot for work I can't wait to play with one of these!
As an often remote network guy, this is my favorite thing unifi has uniquely done. The idea of telling a user "I've marked two ports orange - please plug in there" is amazing. Definitely not a gimmick.
It's refreshing to see Ubiquity trying something different in such a stagnant market. While it's mostly aesthetics, the practicality of the colored ports can't be ignored for large scale setups.
There is IPv6 support I currently have it up and running on my ubiquiti Network it's just a pain in the butt to set up. Because there's no indication whether or not it's working.
@@SeabooUsMultimedia No it is not. I can't configure ULAs there, I can't configure DHCPv6 IA_PD or any other type of DHCPv6. I can't configure any IPv6 subnets in my unifi controller. I can't even fucking ping my Enterprise 8 poe Switch on an IPv6 address. The only thing Unifi does with IPv6 is to present a router advertisement to the devices with the prefix from the ISP. If there are all those options, please explain where to find them.
Jake forgot about all the "Ultra" new Unifi gear that is just a rebranding of "Lite," which is just the basic stuff in new cases. And there is nothing "Ultra" about a 1G switch these days.
It's Ultra low cost and flexible install. They do explain this in their marketing. And it's not a rebrand of the lite devices. The Gateway and Switch are new hardware. Only the AP you maybe argue is due to being a Gen 2 AP but it's still different form factor.
RGBICW cable sheathes that are POE powered and matching the switch would be kinda cool.
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Ngl the part of the video where you turned off the lights was quite more relaxing than those big bright studio lights. What about warm softer lights tech showcases? Gn
Imagine a fiber-optic diffuser cable that lets you TRACE THE CABLE(probably limited to 15-30 feet depending on bends) Yea yea yea, this means you'd need an RGB patch pannel but still.
Would have been better if the RGB was above the ports. There's plenty of empty space above the ports to have cut an opening into the metal plate. Then you wouldn't need to get new cables.
They are garbage. DO NOT BUY. I have worked for MSPs for the last 10 years. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP BUYING THESE. Going with literally ANYONE else. Meraki, DATTO, Aruba... LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE.
@@LeonLionHeart God please not meraki, I'm not a huge fan of Ubiquiti, but wow Meraki is the least user friendly and over priced piece of crap I have ever seen.
They work perfectly fine in my experience, I'm not sure what you guys have encountered. Maybe longevity wise things like Access Points last longer from other companies, but Uniquiti's UI is unmatched I think.
Imagine if they add the ability to set the colours of individual ports yourself. You'd be able to easily group specific computers, or colour code entire sections of the network. Would make it so much more useful.
Honestly these feel like a great idea for live entertainment. Between video outs, Dante, AES, DMX, and a million other things you see in complex installs that often need to be hot swappable the color coding would be awesome.
As someone who is new to the networking world, I just ordered a 16 port Pro Max with etherlighting and love the idea of it, not for cool factor but helping me see what is what. I agree, this should be on every switch! Truly loving the Ubiquiti line up of products
I saw the usefulness immediately. Their marketing should focus more on practicality and less on applesque looks. To me it seems like they've got the priorities wrong. Maybe the port itself should be translucent so it didn't matter what cables you use, or maybe the light should illuminate an area that's larger than just the inside of the port. Breathing is so annoying that I end up disabling all leds that don't allow switching it to static. For the first unboxing experience it's fine, but it wears off extremely quickly once the device just sits in a cornet. Thank goodness they fixed it.
This is actually really cool. I hope they add lighting profiles, so you can quickly find a device and see if it's on a specific vlan or at a specific speed. Two clicks and you instantly know from a glance if you need to move it to a different port. Chef's kiss.
I could see this being useful in a larger deployment with dozens of switches, where you might assign a unique color to the first 8 ports for ESX data, next 8 ports for ESX vmotion, next 8 ports for ESX vsan. Then you could just tell the cable monkey - who often can't find their backside with both hands - to plug cables into the appropriately colored port.
Also Ubiquiti puts their R&D money into colored LEDs but on a product like the Cloud Gateway Ultra they claim it has a 2.5Gbe WAN port but the back plane is a 1Gbit connection to the LAN ports... It's functionally 1Gbe WAN port then... It's worse then stupid. It's deceptive. But you get these LEDs? *GOTTA BUY IT*
Thus could be a good idea if they did let you change the colors like you mentioned. Being able to color coordinate what wire is what so that when you have to do maintenance would be easier.
Dream Machines that lock up, constantly in the news with the US Cyber Command, switches not tagging VLANs, Auto detecting 1GbE ports from another device as 1Mbps for no reason. Must I go on? Bad to no support when you have a crisis in action and the client is losing hundreds if not thousands of dollars every 5 minutes.
Gotta say, ever since I saw the Shark Jack from Hak5, I've wanted more people to pass light through RJ45 connectors. This is exactly what I had in mind. Thanks, Ubiquiti, for making dreams come true
be good to see more videos with jake presenting, i have watched him grow into a very confident presenter. Also i do like the way you present your knowledge Jake, very informative and you can certainly tell you have a passion for it.
I got this switch 2 weeks ago and it's pretty nice. It is the only thing I could find under $1000 that had POE++ and 2.5gb Ethernet. The RGB added all the megabits to my internet.
this would be great for fiber ports for identifying end-to-end connections. Even for a copper run they could run a fiber strand to each jack connector for quicker identification.
This is a VERY practical and useful feature! If the manufacturer officers the RGB control in a developer kit in the future, the control and customization could be bananas. I'm a big two thumbs up on this feature.
Not gonna lie as a church media Tech where I’m 1 of 2 people out of almost 25 who know anything about networking and how the entire building it cabled and where all the networking goes, this would be absolutely amazing to be able to color code everything and be able to teach the new ones how all of this works and visually show them all of it with lights I think it’s awesome honestly.
I bought and set up a couple 48 pro max switches at my company. I bought the switches because they are quite cheap for their features like 2.5gig, poe and especially redundant power. The rgb thing was just a nice bonus for us. The do look really pretty, but the locate function is probably the only real use for it.
and what upsets me most, is i have the standard 24 port switch.. i now want one of these.. not because RGB, or any of the improvements... 100% because its a POE switch where the ports arent all clustered to one side, and itll help my wiring
@@tim3172 ? no it's because in a typical use case the entire rack going dark means everything has suddenly gone offline - which absolutely is a cause for panic in many situations, especially if you weren't expecting it
@@MotoCat91 Or if you're not the one who pushed the button. It's not implausible that you might have a colleague who clicked it at the same time that you were plugging something else in, making you think that you broke everything somehow.
And I think (would need to see it to know) it would actually be easier to locate in a rack if all the other lights stay on. The one switch that's suddenly dark helps you quickly pick out which switch you're looking for, then look for the one lit up port. If everything went dark except for one port but your room was fairly well lit it could actually be a lot harder to find the one port.
definityly excited for the locate port highlight shutting off all other lights on multiple switches. that seems to be the most excitiing possible future update, if not already supported. other than that by device type sounds great also. glhf fam and asalwaystyforyourhardworkanddedication!!! excited for the future!
when it was first announced my first reaction was "wow this would be so handy when instructing on-site technicans.. (or even regular users)" Also mapping devices and cables would be a breeze. If you move into a new location and the cabeling team hasn't marked the wires you could just go into the switch, toggle the port of whatever device you're looking for and boom.
They need to deliver some way to program plug-ins and in the long run there has to be an open standard for debugging network infrastructure than this will be lit af. Get it. Lit. Hehe
I started seeing videos about this a few weeks ago and I was like, wait Jake is a huge Ubiquiti nerd...and it has RGB, why hasn't LTT covered this yet..... lol, but you finally got there. Big productions take time, I get it.
Hopefully the LEDs don't dim like the ones on the access points do! After a year or so any unifi AP has such a dim (blue) glow that you can only see it when the lights are out!
Jake, the idea of having the secondary power input being 48v is because most commercial grade UPS units run at 48v and having the input configured for 48v DC means that the switch can take a direct DC input from the control circuits for the UPS instead of having to do an extra two steps of conversion ( [UPS 48v - >110/240v] == [110/240v - > Switch internal DC voltage] ). Though they could improve it by making it a modular component that you could switch out to choose a input that suited you more instead of just going straight to 110/240v..
I used to work in a datacentre and I don't care what other people think - this would have been useful. We had so many VLANs it was insane, this would have been just a god-send.
Honestly, this should be the new standard. I think it gives us a lot more functionality and means to convey information than the classic green/amber LEDs, even if those are still kept around for legacy's sake for the time being. I'm a big proponent of RGB in general just for this sort of thing: sure, it's stupid when it's only used to "gamer-fy" things, but there's merit in addressable RGB being able to convey all sorts of at-a-glance information to make a user's job easier, and we should always be pushing for our technology to be ever-more painless.
I think this is FANTASTIC!!! But there needs to be cables that have a fiber in them to transmit the light/color to the other end so you can follow them MUCH easier.... and full RGB control is a MUST, which I would expect them to do after enough people tell them... AND a way to control ALL the RGB Switches from one place.... - ALSO if do that locate feature and the cable is going from one of these to 2nd one then BOTH ENDS should light up with that same color.... and like Jake said ALL of the RGB ports would turn off when you locate... BUT I REALLY think they NEED cables with a way to transmit the light to the other end (like a fiber optic line) oh and there could be two versions of these cables: one with the fiber inside the cable so you only see the ends light up, and the other with the fiber going around the outside (probably a clear plastic coating over the fiber too tho.... or just a clear sleeve on the cable would work) so the entire cable would have light LOL .... some people would probably buy it for their home lab... some people like me LOL - - WHO WOULDN'T WANT RGB ETHERNET CABLES IN THEIR HOME LABS??? lol
I want special cables with a thin strand of fiber optic so you can see the colors at both ends. Bonus points if there was some (easy) way to attach that though wall plates and everything. Etherlighting in walls has a log more potential to be helpful in my opinion.
Ok but to be clear, the aesthetics value is real. If you can make your work environment feel like a cool place to be in I mean, why not? I have a few RGB studio lights that would normally be waiting for the next production gig. You can bet that they are now on light stands splashing rich colours on the walls in the editing studio.
I alright thought of a usecase. Remote IT highlights cable to pull/plug using the colors, instead of telling "GO TO THIS RACK THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS AND DO THAT BBLAH BLAH", Id buy it for these usecases for sure
I'm so glad they spend time on an RGB switch instead of something useful, like for example, adding a UDM into a self hosted controller or adding admin visibility and or settings. Time well spent. Very enterprise.
this would be a good idea in my line of work, i chat with network programmers to plug into switches and if they could dedicate lights to indicate what ports i need to plug into that would be great
I'd love if they changed colour depending on how much data each port was using! And an option to choose between instantaneous and total data. And matching the colour of ports that are communicating with each other!!
Having the ability to locate a port in a sea of ports is a really useful feature IMO, also glad to see 2.5Gb ports becoming more...ubiquitous...😅 in networking products.
That was a good video Jake. I only watched it because of your humourous title, and wasn't disappointed, gj. I liked the video better without studio lights too.
stating this before finishing the video but I could imagine RGB being kind of useful for some cases. If it's addressable it could make finding problematic areas a bit faster or if someone isn't fully trained they can report like 'port 7 is red' it being red meaning it has some kind of failure/issue going on. I'm obviously not a trained Tech but this was just my imagining.
I like the idea of being able to locate and segment with colour but maybe they should move the LED out of the port and put it above and below the port so that you can see it.
"it'd be cool if you had a stack and it switched off the others and just blinked these lights" Pretty sure Cisco and HP have had this funtionality in stacks for at least a couple of decades.
I agree, on the surface, it looks like very much follow-on trendiness... With context, however, I can see a lot of utility here, especially for remote teams or for dynamic changes to the network.
The way the video ended is actually the only reason I'd consider this. "Faster ports, woo". Definitely worth the premium over the 24 PoE Pro I have just for those 2.5gig ports. But also not worth the hassle of selling my current switch and upgrading for 2.5Gb yet. (Maybe worth considering when Wifi 7 is more common though.)
Luminex, a company in the AV industry, has different type of switches that have that LED on each port for a couple of years now. Very easy to locate which ports is on which VLan. Quite a neat ans easy way to work!
Another cool feature could be relative load, i.e. green/grey idle and red fully utilized, if you want a quick overview of where traffic is going to and coming from.
Re the redundant power, there's plenty of enterprise gear that runs with a similar AC primary DC backup - though there's also plenty of enterprise stuff that just rolls with more PSUs, or even multiple PSUs per switch with power shared between them as well.
The potential utility of lighting per port is obvious. Ubiquiti has proven (time and again) their interest in innovation - so it's fair to expect firmware/software updates for the RGB capabilities. Great Cool factor, need more utility - though to be fair, color coding my VlANs, network speed, and locating a specific port is VERY cool, today.
They should but a fiberglass inside their cable to be able to light the other end of the cable. That would be soo usefull. You could find whats the patch pannel position.
this is a networking tech's dream come true. Color coding instead of using stick on labels or a notepad. And only for 100usd more. I was expecting it to be like 300-400 dollars more. But 100 bucks for something new ain't such a hard pill to swallow.
It seems like a gimmick but it is handy. Most racks don't look like the perfect cable-managed ones you see in big data centers. most offices will have a rack that is just a mess of cables so being able to quickly identify what is plugged in where is really handy..
I find it interesting that he mentioned wanting dual PSUs in this switch ... I just recently got to look at a Ubiquiti Edge Router Infinity which has 2 PSUs in a easy swap insert configuration. The Infinity is a 8 port SFP+ switch with one RJ45 as a eth0, and one as a console port. Amazing hardware, but no RGB unfortunately ...
I'd say an api for fully custom rgb is a must for something like this. Even if you want to display company logo or lets say writhe some text, you should be able to do that.
Remember that old video when Linus said "RGB isn't the main focus for server manufactures, yet"
Ubiquity took that personally
Seriously I look at my servers like once a year if that. The rest of the time it is strictly text based.
I mean, server rooms need to look swag to get investors right? right?
“YET” !
They love making their proprietary racks all pretty. The ibm or dell storage solutions come in racks designed to look like spaceships compared to the more standard style racks like the one Linus recently got a pink version of.
It needs a load mode, that goes from green to red depending on how much traffic there is in certain ports, and maybe one for packet rate specifically.
red/green is a terrible outdated color scheme imo with the amount of people that are red/green colorblind, a small glowing LED is hard to tell the two colors apart.
@firefox69 then they can add a colorblind mode.... then again should everything default to a small subset of the population?
@@TokoloziI mean, they could also just pick a different color scheme that’s also semantically clear but doesn’t have accessibility issues 😅 I’m not a UX designer but this is a very solved problem
@@bakedbeanfanclub There's no colour scheme that doesn't have accessibility issues, red/green isn't the only colour blindness.
@@bakedbeanfanclub red/green is surely the most obvious. I think most people transpose the red/yellow/green traffic light analogy to mean high/medium/low, no?
The one time RGB makes sense for color coding! You know how hard it is to write documentation for network???
I'm surprised it's taken this long tbh.
RGB has always made sense for color coding. Imagine having your entire PC case glowing red because your fans are set to do that when you overheat. It's possible to set up.
@@MrGamelover23, yeah, my computer is, blackout unless stuff gets dangerously hot. Lol. Only reason I have RGB.
Try writing network documentation when you can have new clients and networks set up for as little as one day. Happens all the time here.
I'm colorblind...so ..😅
The VLAN identification feature is what dreams are made of.
Awesome cause then Trunk ports can be the rainbow road to the internet.
Port 1-4 VLAN 1 orange, port 5-8 VLAN 2 blue. That's cool.
It's my Dream Machine
yeah but they also have an AR feature where the little screen displays a qr code and then your phone or tablet shows you live whats conencted where at the ports
No, no it’s not.. use software defined networking.. the access port is irrelevant
Jake: describes functionality that doesn't exist
Somewhere, a product manager at ubiquiti: furiously taking notes
There actually is an easy way around that cable covering up the light problem - that huge amount of space above each port, they could simply have the RBG lights there right above each port nice and clear so yeah all kinds of IT teams could use the RGB as color coding to make managing racks full of these far simpler for their IT teams. Pretty cool feature with lots of potential if you think outside of the box and don't just associate "anything RGB = gamer lulz".
Yeah for sure spending $15 more on extra pcb wouldn't hurt and there would be no cable compatibility issue
Yeah but that's not as cool... Lol.
But that doesn't let them sell you the custom cables
They use this same design on a 48 port model which doesn't have a massive amount of free space above the ports.
Damn you all really don´t get how businesses operate huh? They obviously want to lock you into the ecosystem@@taktuscat4250
Starting a networking job (Which wont be on site most of the time), I was quite excited for this.
If when I need something doing, instead of having to drive to site or try and painfully tell someone how to find the right port, I could just light it up remotely and say "that one".
Also having them set to the VLAN is really nice.
Hoping they do flesh this out a bit more, some of the other features I would imagine are currently on the beta firmware.
that sounds like a dream. imagine how much easier your job would be
Imagine cables using some cheap fiber optics integrated in them, to not only light up the plug on the switch side, but also on the other end! If you’d want to see where a cable run ends, just blink the light on the port and see where else in the rack/building it lights up! One of my previous employers uses cables similar to that, but you can just use a little device that clips onto the connector and does the same.
Exactly this. This is what I expected to be the use case for, because you can already see in the interface which port is what if you want. But apparently it's not. I hope someone will get this idea to reality, I would be happy to adopt that the next network deployment in our office. Even when the network engineer out of office, he could point out a cable someone should use. There's many use cases to me where it would be useful to light the other end instead the switch side.
I didn't know this existed. I need to setup a new network soon and I'll definitely look this up. That sounds so good!
PatchSee already do something similar.
Seems to me the light wouldn't make it the whole way with keystones in the middle and on the end.
@@JacksonCampbell yeah, you’d need compatible keystones as well in that case, but I don’t think it would be all that difficult to engineer. It’d probably cost quite a bit more for the purchasing party, but it would make life for network engineers so much easier.
My dad told me that someone at his workplace moved his desk and setup stuff to another room, and then plugged in a pc on a voip ethernet socket. Due to the config of vlan’s and the addition of a new IPS, that brought down the network itself apparently. There’s a lot more wrong with this than just the improperly labeled outlet and the person just plugging things in willy nilly, but to be able to label it correctly, knowing what runs where would be a lot easier with tech like this.
Out of the box thinking on Ubiquiti's part, what a great idea. And you only need to replace the cables on ports/configs you want to give RGB meaning like this group is the LAG, or these ports are for access points (I know you said that function isn't there yet, but I am hoping it is in their long term plan. They wouldn't need to do anything other than just let you set the color without regard for the things they currently set the color for). Very cool!!!
I could see RGB lighting being soooo useful in networking simply because of being able to color code at the device which things are what, which would absolutely pay for itself in saved time from having to read port numbers or label everything with labelmaker labels that fall off or rub off after a while. Especially if you have someone who’s your boots on the ground but doesn’t necessarily have access to accounts and stuff but you’re talking them through the situation, which happens at my work all the time. Hopefully they add further logic functionality in the lighting, because I could absolutely see a use for this right now.
I would love to see a home setup that's normal like a couple poe cameras, a few acess points, a few general plug ins, and then maybe a small home storage. Also a few videos on how to set it up would be cool.
+1. My dad wants to set up their home with security cameras, and it would be nice to see how to do it properly. Currently he just bought a cheap option that has to connect to the home network, and has its own proprietary mobile app to look at the camera feed. Standard and cost-efficient options would be especially interesting.
Check the ubiquiti subreddit
@TUTMak3r I hate reading redit would much rather watch a video and at least get some entertainment out of learning
@@rustedoutwrench it’s just pictures but yeah I get what you mean
there's only like a million UA-camrs with videos on just this thing.
Having the ability to identify things visually is great. I feel like there should be an indicator above/below the port and not just IN the port, that way you don't have to worry about opaque cables blocking it, or getting the special transparent cables. [I'd like it to be both, and if I had money I'd get the special transparent cables, it does look lovely]
This will become a mandatory feature in all switchgear by 2030
And yet Cisco still won't do it.
I can confirm on Ubiquiti not being able to recognize everything, that whenever I look at my connected devices, my Arch Linux desktop will show as a Steam Deck in unifi network even though it is not that specific distro.
Or magically you Black magic design ATEM mini has packet loss through a ubiquti switch. and your trying to figure out why your live stream is being throttled.
The steam deck's OS is a modified arch linux, so it likely sends the same vendor string. It's still insanely stupid to show all archs as decks and not the other way around (or to use the mac address to tell them apart) though...
its definitely gotten better over time though
@@aysnov The mac address might not be constant. A lot of mobile devices randomise the MACs, unless you specifically tell them otherwise, and I could see the steam deck being no exception.
The steam deck (and networkmanager in general) doesn't spoof mac addresses by default except when scanning.
I know nothing about networking but some of my favorite videos by LTT or Short Circuit is Jake just being super passionate about it.
Hit the nail on the head: they should add this to everything AND THEY SHOULD MAKE IT CUSTOMIZABLE!!
As someone who uses Ubiquiti products quite a lot for work I can't wait to play with one of these!
As an often remote network guy, this is my favorite thing unifi has uniquely done. The idea of telling a user "I've marked two ports orange - please plug in there" is amazing. Definitely not a gimmick.
It's refreshing to see Ubiquity trying something different in such a stagnant market. While it's mostly aesthetics, the practicality of the colored ports can't be ignored for large scale setups.
Ich would like to buy more Ubiquiti stuff. But their refusal to proper support IPv6 in their Unifi lineup is keeping me from doing it.
There is IPv6 support I currently have it up and running on my ubiquiti Network it's just a pain in the butt to set up. Because there's no indication whether or not it's working.
@@SeabooUsMultimedia No it is not. I can't configure ULAs there, I can't configure DHCPv6 IA_PD or any other type of DHCPv6. I can't configure any IPv6 subnets in my unifi controller. I can't even fucking ping my Enterprise 8 poe Switch on an IPv6 address. The only thing Unifi does with IPv6 is to present a router advertisement to the devices with the prefix from the ISP.
If there are all those options, please explain where to find them.
Jake forgot about all the "Ultra" new Unifi gear that is just a rebranding of "Lite," which is just the basic stuff in new cases. And there is nothing "Ultra" about a 1G switch these days.
As Ubiquiti name Ultra which means they are targeting the cost effective market with low cost you get better specs not like pro or enterprise
yep once you go 10g you never go back and all 1G switches are a waste of money
It's Ultra low cost and flexible install. They do explain this in their marketing.
And it's not a rebrand of the lite devices. The Gateway and Switch are new hardware. Only the AP you maybe argue is due to being a Gen 2 AP but it's still different form factor.
@@fujitsubo3323 so you connecting all your cameras and door access with 10Gb connections? Talk about wasting money.
Completely. $800 and not a single 10GbE port on the sucker. I would happily trade the RGB for even just a couple 10GbE ports.
RGBICW cable sheathes that are POE powered and matching the switch would be kinda cool.
Ngl the part of the video where you turned off the lights was quite more relaxing than those big bright studio lights. What about warm softer lights tech showcases? Gn
Imagine a fiber-optic diffuser cable that lets you TRACE THE CABLE(probably limited to 15-30 feet depending on bends)
Yea yea yea, this means you'd need an RGB patch pannel but still.
Would have been better if the RGB was above the ports. There's plenty of empty space above the ports to have cut an opening into the metal plate. Then you wouldn't need to get new cables.
From a manufacturing perspective that would be way more complicated and expensive to achieve is my guess.
Wouldn’t work on the 48 port model…
ubiquiti be doing anything but actually making their products work as expected
They are garbage. DO NOT BUY. I have worked for MSPs for the last 10 years. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP BUYING THESE. Going with literally ANYONE else. Meraki, DATTO, Aruba... LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE.
Just like Apple
@@LeonLionHeart God please not meraki, I'm not a huge fan of Ubiquiti, but wow Meraki is the least user friendly and over priced piece of crap I have ever seen.
They work perfectly fine in my experience, I'm not sure what you guys have encountered. Maybe longevity wise things like Access Points last longer from other companies, but Uniquiti's UI is unmatched I think.
@@LeonLionHeart The only good thing in Ubiquiti are their Wifi 6E APs which is cheap compared to other companies.
Imagine if they add the ability to set the colours of individual ports yourself. You'd be able to easily group specific computers, or colour code entire sections of the network. Would make it so much more useful.
Honestly these feel like a great idea for live entertainment. Between video outs, Dante, AES, DMX, and a million other things you see in complex installs that often need to be hot swappable the color coding would be awesome.
If only unifi's damn controller software would identify the devices on the right ports this might actually be useful.
True that! It is hot garbage. Prob the Chinese hacker man in the background changes them around for you since they have backdoors.
As someone who is new to the networking world, I just ordered a 16 port Pro Max with etherlighting and love the idea of it, not for cool factor but helping me see what is what. I agree, this should be on every switch! Truly loving the Ubiquiti line up of products
I saw the usefulness immediately. Their marketing should focus more on practicality and less on applesque looks. To me it seems like they've got the priorities wrong. Maybe the port itself should be translucent so it didn't matter what cables you use, or maybe the light should illuminate an area that's larger than just the inside of the port.
Breathing is so annoying that I end up disabling all leds that don't allow switching it to static. For the first unboxing experience it's fine, but it wears off extremely quickly once the device just sits in a cornet. Thank goodness they fixed it.
I love how jake transforms into a kid on christmas everytime new ubiquity shows up.
7:45 might trigger some network admins 🤣
Sends me loopy.
This is actually really cool. I hope they add lighting profiles, so you can quickly find a device and see if it's on a specific vlan or at a specific speed. Two clicks and you instantly know from a glance if you need to move it to a different port. Chef's kiss.
I could see this being useful in a larger deployment with dozens of switches, where you might assign a unique color to the first 8 ports for ESX data, next 8 ports for ESX vmotion, next 8 ports for ESX vsan. Then you could just tell the cable monkey - who often can't find their backside with both hands - to plug cables into the appropriately colored port.
on a switch that expensive the fact that all the ports aren't poe++ and 2.5gbe is crazy
I personally liked this Switch...still waiting for this to launch in India...!!!
Also Ubiquiti puts their R&D money into colored LEDs but on a product like the Cloud Gateway Ultra they claim it has a 2.5Gbe WAN port but the back plane is a 1Gbit connection to the LAN ports... It's functionally 1Gbe WAN port then... It's worse then stupid. It's deceptive. But you get these LEDs? *GOTTA BUY IT*
Thus could be a good idea if they did let you change the colors like you mentioned. Being able to color coordinate what wire is what so that when you have to do maintenance would be easier.
Greetings from Poland. I have this switch for almost a month and it's awesome. Changed my whole home networking and have built new wooden rack for it.
Exactly. FOR HOME. Not for a business. Do not buy these for businesses.
@@LeonLionHeartI am genuinely curious about what happened to you that you hate them that much for a business setup? How come?
Dream Machines that lock up, constantly in the news with the US Cyber Command, switches not tagging VLANs, Auto detecting 1GbE ports from another device as 1Mbps for no reason. Must I go on? Bad to no support when you have a crisis in action and the client is losing hundreds if not thousands of dollars every 5 minutes.
Gotta say, ever since I saw the Shark Jack from Hak5, I've wanted more people to pass light through RJ45 connectors. This is exactly what I had in mind. Thanks, Ubiquiti, for making dreams come true
I love the rgb ports, I want one now
One rgb port?
Ubiquiti is loading out new products and updates fast they have come a long way
Thats actually the most useful thing ive ever seen on a switch to date....
be good to see more videos with jake presenting, i have watched him grow into a very confident presenter. Also i do like the way you present your knowledge Jake, very informative and you can certainly tell you have a passion for it.
I got this switch 2 weeks ago and it's pretty nice. It is the only thing I could find under $1000 that had POE++ and 2.5gb Ethernet. The RGB added all the megabits to my internet.
this would be great for fiber ports for identifying end-to-end connections. Even for a copper run they could run a fiber strand to each jack connector for quicker identification.
This is a VERY practical and useful feature! If the manufacturer officers the RGB control in a developer kit in the future, the control and customization could be bananas. I'm a big two thumbs up on this feature.
Honestly no explanation was needed, color based identification is pretty obviously useful.
Not gonna lie as a church media Tech where I’m 1 of 2 people out of almost 25 who know anything about networking and how the entire building it cabled and where all the networking goes, this would be absolutely amazing to be able to color code everything and be able to teach the new ones how all of this works and visually show them all of it with lights I think it’s awesome honestly.
I bought and set up a couple 48 pro max switches at my company.
I bought the switches because they are quite cheap for their features like 2.5gig, poe and especially redundant power.
The rgb thing was just a nice bonus for us.
The do look really pretty, but the locate function is probably the only real use for it.
and what upsets me most, is i have the standard 24 port switch.. i now want one of these.. not because RGB, or any of the improvements... 100% because its a POE switch where the ports arent all clustered to one side, and itll help my wiring
I think it would freak me out for a second if a whole rack would suddenly turn dark if I select a port.
I’d actually have a heart attack I think
@@tim3172 ? no it's because in a typical use case the entire rack going dark means everything has suddenly gone offline - which absolutely is a cause for panic in many situations, especially if you weren't expecting it
@@MotoCat91 Or if you're not the one who pushed the button. It's not implausible that you might have a colleague who clicked it at the same time that you were plugging something else in, making you think that you broke everything somehow.
And I think (would need to see it to know) it would actually be easier to locate in a rack if all the other lights stay on. The one switch that's suddenly dark helps you quickly pick out which switch you're looking for, then look for the one lit up port. If everything went dark except for one port but your room was fairly well lit it could actually be a lot harder to find the one port.
definityly excited for the locate port highlight shutting off all other lights on multiple switches. that seems to be the most excitiing possible future update, if not already supported. other than that by device type sounds great also. glhf fam and asalwaystyforyourhardworkanddedication!!! excited for the future!
Just ordered this switch to handle my lone 2.5gbe connection from my UDM-SE. Damn you, Ubi and your rabbit hole
The only thing I wish this had was proper fast-blinking lights for port activity :)
It does.
when it was first announced my first reaction was "wow this would be so handy when instructing on-site technicans.. (or even regular users)"
Also mapping devices and cables would be a breeze. If you move into a new location and the cabeling team hasn't marked the wires you could just go into the switch, toggle the port of whatever device you're looking for and boom.
They need to deliver some way to program plug-ins and in the long run there has to be an open standard for debugging network infrastructure than this will be lit af.
Get it. Lit. Hehe
This was the greatest purchase I've made. Link speed identification at a mere glance is wonderful
I seriously need one of those. Being able to identify vlan enabled ports would be a godsend!
I started seeing videos about this a few weeks ago and I was like, wait Jake is a huge Ubiquiti nerd...and it has RGB, why hasn't LTT covered this yet..... lol, but you finally got there. Big productions take time, I get it.
Hopefully the LEDs don't dim like the ones on the access points do! After a year or so any unifi AP has such a dim (blue) glow that you can only see it when the lights are out!
I bought this for the 10G SFP ports and the 2.5G ports. My favorite feature is having all the ports in a single row, makes for neat cabling.
Jake, the idea of having the secondary power input being 48v is because most commercial grade UPS units run at 48v and having the input configured for 48v DC means that the switch can take a direct DC input from the control circuits for the UPS instead of having to do an extra two steps of conversion ( [UPS 48v - >110/240v] == [110/240v - > Switch internal DC voltage] ). Though they could improve it by making it a modular component that you could switch out to choose a input that suited you more instead of just going straight to 110/240v..
If I had a larger network and it wasn't documented, there would definitely be some value in "just turn that port red," otherwise not that interested.
I used to work in a datacentre and I don't care what other people think - this would have been useful. We had so many VLANs it was insane, this would have been just a god-send.
Honestly, this should be the new standard. I think it gives us a lot more functionality and means to convey information than the classic green/amber LEDs, even if those are still kept around for legacy's sake for the time being. I'm a big proponent of RGB in general just for this sort of thing: sure, it's stupid when it's only used to "gamer-fy" things, but there's merit in addressable RGB being able to convey all sorts of at-a-glance information to make a user's job easier, and we should always be pushing for our technology to be ever-more painless.
This would look super clean next to my Dream Machine / NVR Pro - as a home user, I would LOVE this. Plus it would tie in with the PC next to it.
I love seeing the networking hardware stuff!!! Plz do more.
I think this is FANTASTIC!!! But there needs to be cables that have a fiber in them to transmit the light/color to the other end so you can follow them MUCH easier.... and full RGB control is a MUST, which I would expect them to do after enough people tell them... AND a way to control ALL the RGB Switches from one place....
- ALSO if do that locate feature and the cable is going from one of these to 2nd one then BOTH ENDS should light up with that same color.... and like Jake said ALL of the RGB ports would turn off when you locate... BUT I REALLY think they NEED cables with a way to transmit the light to the other end (like a fiber optic line) oh and there could be two versions of these cables: one with the fiber inside the cable so you only see the ends light up, and the other with the fiber going around the outside (probably a clear plastic coating over the fiber too tho.... or just a clear sleeve on the cable would work) so the entire cable would have light LOL .... some people would probably buy it for their home lab... some people like me LOL - - WHO WOULDN'T WANT RGB ETHERNET CABLES IN THEIR HOME LABS??? lol
I want special cables with a thin strand of fiber optic so you can see the colors at both ends. Bonus points if there was some (easy) way to attach that though wall plates and everything. Etherlighting in walls has a log more potential to be helpful in my opinion.
Ok but to be clear, the aesthetics value is real. If you can make your work environment feel like a cool place to be in I mean, why not? I have a few RGB studio lights that would normally be waiting for the next production gig. You can bet that they are now on light stands splashing rich colours on the walls in the editing studio.
I alright thought of a usecase. Remote IT highlights cable to pull/plug using the colors, instead of telling "GO TO THIS RACK THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS AND DO THAT BBLAH BLAH", Id buy it for these usecases for sure
I'm so glad they spend time on an RGB switch instead of something useful, like for example, adding a UDM into a self hosted controller or adding admin visibility and or settings. Time well spent. Very enterprise.
this would be a good idea in my line of work, i chat with network programmers to plug into switches and if they could dedicate lights to indicate what ports i need to plug into that would be great
its actually useful; we have luminex switches at work, and i always use the rgb to visually show VLan designations
I'd love if they changed colour depending on how much data each port was using!
And an option to choose between instantaneous and total data.
And matching the colour of ports that are communicating with each other!!
Having the ability to locate a port in a sea of ports is a really useful feature IMO, also glad to see 2.5Gb ports becoming more...ubiquitous...😅 in networking products.
That was a good video Jake. I only watched it because of your humourous title, and wasn't disappointed, gj. I liked the video better without studio lights too.
stating this before finishing the video but I could imagine RGB being kind of useful for some cases. If it's addressable it could make finding problematic areas a bit faster or if someone isn't fully trained they can report like 'port 7 is red' it being red meaning it has some kind of failure/issue going on.
I'm obviously not a trained Tech but this was just my imagining.
I like the idea of being able to locate and segment with colour but maybe they should move the LED out of the port and put it above and below the port so that you can see it.
"it'd be cool if you had a stack and it switched off the others and just blinked these lights"
Pretty sure Cisco and HP have had this funtionality in stacks for at least a couple of decades.
'Running a patch cable up directly to a patch panel'; yeah i remember my first home lab too.
id love one. It also makes showing vlans so you know what ports are for what. So color coded via vlan. Sweet!!!
I agree, on the surface, it looks like very much follow-on trendiness... With context, however, I can see a lot of utility here, especially for remote teams or for dynamic changes to the network.
The way the video ended is actually the only reason I'd consider this. "Faster ports, woo". Definitely worth the premium over the 24 PoE Pro I have just for those 2.5gig ports. But also not worth the hassle of selling my current switch and upgrading for 2.5Gb yet. (Maybe worth considering when Wifi 7 is more common though.)
I already ordered 4 of these for our network room refresh, can't wait to install.
Wow, Jake is looking really good. Great job buddy
jake glow up arc, boy you look fire.
Jake videos are quality.
Luminex, a company in the AV industry, has different type of switches that have that LED on each port for a couple of years now. Very easy to locate which ports is on which VLan. Quite a neat ans easy way to work!
Another cool feature could be relative load, i.e. green/grey idle and red fully utilized, if you want a quick overview of where traffic is going to and coming from.
Re the redundant power, there's plenty of enterprise gear that runs with a similar AC primary DC backup - though there's also plenty of enterprise stuff that just rolls with more PSUs, or even multiple PSUs per switch with power shared between them as well.
Makes sense to use DC for backup to avoid unnecessary AC/DC conversion losses
Most enterprise switches also have hot swap PSUs.
The potential utility of lighting per port is obvious. Ubiquiti has proven (time and again) their interest in innovation - so it's fair to expect firmware/software updates for the RGB capabilities. Great Cool factor, need more utility - though to be fair, color coding my VlANs, network speed, and locating a specific port is VERY cool, today.
They should but a fiberglass inside their cable to be able to light the other end of the cable. That would be soo usefull. You could find whats the patch pannel position.
I like it. Can only imagine the banger discos and raves in server rooms and datacenters...
this is a networking tech's dream come true. Color coding instead of using stick on labels or a notepad. And only for 100usd more. I was expecting it to be like 300-400 dollars more. But 100 bucks for something new ain't such a hard pill to swallow.
It seems like a gimmick but it is handy.
Most racks don't look like the perfect cable-managed ones you see in big data centers. most offices will have a rack that is just a mess of cables so being able to quickly identify what is plugged in where is really handy..
I find it interesting that he mentioned wanting dual PSUs in this switch ... I just recently got to look at a Ubiquiti Edge Router Infinity which has 2 PSUs in a easy swap insert configuration. The Infinity is a 8 port SFP+ switch with one RJ45 as a eth0, and one as a console port. Amazing hardware, but no RGB unfortunately ...
I'd say an api for fully custom rgb is a must for something like this. Even if you want to display company logo or lets say writhe some text, you should be able to do that.
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I wish there will be quickbits intro😂.
By the way that rgb gaming nerwork is so cool.