MSDistribution https://www.msdist.co.uk/ubiquiti/unifi-routing-swit... have both in stock ... their online price is easily discountable, 15-18% or maybe more.

If you are serious about Ubiquiti then give MSDist a call https://www.msdist.co.uk/ubiquiti/unifi-routing-swit... and get a quote on all yu need. Just ignore the online price. In my experience they are the cheapest overall and being UK based no issues with shipping time or hassle through customs.

Their cameras may sound expensive, but when you feel how well made a G4 ceiling mount is, for example, you will appreciate them. They are also vandal proof.

If you went for a UDM-Pro there is a hard-drive bay for Protect. The UDM-Pro SE has 8 Gb ports with PoE ... which may mean your other switch could be a non-PoE

They have plenty of small switches - PoE powered or conventional

Hey MHC. Haven’t bothered to call the account manager but just logged in with my corp account.

Last few times they couldn’t do much, unless I was ordering 10+. Which to be fair I sometimes do, but not for odds and sods.

How much can they get this for you?

https://www.msdist.co.uk/ubiquiti/unifi-switch/unifi...

I probably buy way less than you ... I would still expect a decent discount on that.

The last Dream Machine Pro was about £280 compared to the online £340

This is what I’m getting… without calling a human being.

As a member of the public

Signed in to my account, with offer price and sliding scale based on spend.

….or I go to euroDK, off the bat it’s £850 ex. No haggling. I pay a bit more in carriage and wait an extra day for it (in theory of this item wasn’t prerelease/not in stock).

Dunno YMMV

Edited by Pheasant (Fri 10-Dec-21 17:03:57)

So around 7% ... ask them next time. I need a couple more cameras soon and when speaking with them will ask!

In reply to a post by MHC:

If you are serious about Ubiquiti then give MSDist a call https://www.msdist.co.uk/ubiquiti/unifi-routing-swit... and get a quote on all yu need. Just ignore the online price. In my experience they are the cheapest overall and being UK based no issues with shipping time or hassle through customs.

Their cameras may sound expensive, but when you feel how well made a G4 ceiling mount is, for example, you will appreciate them. They are also vandal proof.

If you went for a UDM-Pro there is a hard-drive bay for Protect. The UDM-Pro SE has 8 Gb ports with PoE ... which may mean your other switch could be a non-PoE

They have plenty of small switches - PoE powered or conventional

Thank you, I may consider getting in touch closer to the time for pricing.

For switches I'm looking at the 24 port PoE, and the Flex Mini. Not sure what APs yet, considering WiFi 6 lite.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

And there are other data centres use a mix of SFP+ and 10GbaseT (as in the ones I work at). If this weren't true, then you wouldn't be able to buy 10GbaseT switches from all the major vendors.

Interesting. 10GBase-T modules eat power and produce a ton of heat due to how hard the transceivers have to work to get those frequencies down twisted pairs. For short range SFP+ and DACs rule, for anything longer in the DC optical SFPs is usually how they roll.

10GBase-T is expensive to purchase, expensive to run and has limited range. A 5 meter DAC is less than £15 and uses less than half a watt and you're done, 300 meter range MMF optics come in at £15 each side and consume 0.6 watts each. 10GBase-T costs 3-4 times as much each depending on the range you're after and uses 3-5 times as much power.

To each their own. I haven't seen it used much in any scenario. All SFP+/SFP28/QSFP28, DACs for short range, optical longer, and boring gigabit copper ports from top of rack switches to servers. If you scored a good deal on switches with incorporated 10GBase-T ports all power to you guys. Super situational.

For me 10GBase-T has the ease of deployment advantage when you're dealing with temporary facilities and short-term visiting users... think press centre, photographers uploading - full 10G is rare but you see a lot of 2.5G and some 5G in laptops or dongles these days.

Anything permanent-infrastructure or where I can specify both ends is fibre or DAC based due to cost and power consumption.

Not sure why anyone buys from the UK distributors, they're all crazy overpriced compared to just buying from Ubiquiti's EU store directly..?

https://eu.store.ui.com/