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So i've been in contact with the firm that provided us most of the computer hardware for the lab. Translated to english, they sugested this: Try to stay away from 1/10G hardware and invest in Mulit-Gigibit switches, a lot of new consumer grade hardware will come with 2.5G or 5G network adapters, with the Ubiquiti 10gb switches (16XG with RJ45 10G converters) they will drop down to 1G because the SFP+ switches don't support 2.5 and/or 5G. Since you're network is managed localy and there is no need for cloud acces management we would go for a high quality business router, 1 unmanneged or basic managed multi-gigabit switch and 1 unmanneged or basic managed gigabit switch. All with 10 gigabit SFP+ or copper uplink options. We suggest following setup: DrayTek Vigor 3910 10gigabit compatible router (price point around €800) This router lets you load balance on either 10 Gigabit SFP+ (not in your case) 2x 2.5 Gigabit copper or 4x 1 Gigabit copper. You can use 1 SFP+ port as the backbone output for your switches and then the setup is very flexible you can, at this point load balance the 4 existing 1 gigabit lines and when they upgrade you can either go wit 10 gigabit with the SFP+ 10G WAN or even load balance 2x 2.5 gigabit over the existing cables with a switch upgrade. NOTE: according to them this is the only one that thicks all the boxes i asked for since the UDM Pro doesn't support load balancing at this point. They also suggest not mixing ubiquiti with other hardware, go full ubiquiti or go something else was the suggestion. For switches I see 2 possible combinations: Option 1: (price point around €900) Netgear XS512EM or XS712T Multi-Gigabit switch with dual SFP+ uplink This switch gives is the best bang-for-the-buck at this point for multi gigabit switching. You get a 10 gigabit uplink to the Vigor Router over SFP+ and appart from the 3 workstations with 10 gigabit ethernet i would rout 6 to the wall sockets in the lab and leave one as spare. This is far more future proof. + Netgear MS510TXPP This switch can be daisy chained from the XS512 to provide you with 8 POE ports, (4x Gigabit, 2x 2.5G, 2x 5G), You can use the existing acces points on the gigabit POE ports but if you ever upgrade to acces points that can handle 2.5G or 5G this switch can handle it. Option 2: (price point around €900) Netgear S3300-28-POE This switch allows you to connect all wall-sockets and acces points to the 1 gigabit side of the switch with a 10 gigabit SFP+ uplink to the vigor router. It gives you a lot more ports then the previous setup. + Netgear XS505M You can daisy chain this switch to the S3300-28 through the SFP+ interface. It gives you enough input/output for the 3 workstations and one spare. All this comes around 200-300 Euro's over budget but they suggest going up to around € 2000 to and just go with the full multi-gigabit network to ensure the network is ready for the following 5-10 Years without the need for further upgrades. NOTE: They distribute Cisco, Draytek, Netgear, Microtik and TP link but price/quality wise suggest Netgear fits this setup. They suggest to stay away from microtik for this case because of the lack of some functions in the GUI. What do you think of this setup? Thanks in Advance!

Comes in 44 Euro's over budget with UDM Pro + 16XG + PRO-24 and 2 SFP+ link cables Am i correct to asume that the inbuilt controller of the UDM pro also gives me the option to ad their APs if i don't get the cisco ones in a form of stand alone mode?

Wouldn't these options limit the bandwith in a bottleneck to the Acces points that are connected on the 16 ports POE router tot 1gbps since i can't seem to find a 16 or 24 port model with SFP+ 10gbps connections? I'm looking at 30 headsets requesting around 80-120 mbps each while stream high-grade content so that puts me around 3 gbps between the workstations on the XG-6POE and the 16 port switch. Is a Netgear XS712T or XS716T in combination with an MS510TXPP for the acces points an option to solve this? I got that recomedation from somewhere else but there was no good router option from netgear to go with it that's why I droped that plan. But the combination with the UDM pro could work? Is it a good idea to mix brands or better not? I put in the request for 10 gigabit fiber or copper but that will be at the earliest of summer 2021. You say hopefully but i couldn't find any info or roadmap, is there anything known? I'm quite intriged by the UDM Pro because of the HDD options to replace the existing CCTV system. A 16 port 10 gigabit switch on RJ45 copper would be a nice adition to there line-up. Thanks in advance!

Hellow all, I'm trying to come up with a network sollution for a VR/MEDIA/Computationel Thinking lab in our University College. You can see the situation in the image below. In short we have following devices connected: - 2 workstations for VR content creation that are equiped with an ASUS XG-C100C 10 Gigabit Ethernet Card and an inbuilt 1 gigabit Ethernet. - 1 File server running OpenMediaVault (due to driver issues with the XC-C100C card on FreeNAS) for SMB Fileshare over the local network (in the lab) and an FTP share to outside the LAB - 3 VR Test setups with inbuilt gigabit ethernet - 4 Cisco Aironet 2600 acces points (if we can get them to work in stand alone without controller) 1 Is for laptops over Wifi 3 Are for aprox. 30 Oculus Quest and 5 Oculus Go Headsets - A number of unused ports for connecting laptops/test setups (we're planning on investing in a few VR ready laptops to use with the Oculus Quest (Link)) The current network hardware for the building is a gaint Cisco router/switch with a 40Gbps backplane, a 10 Gigabit Fiber input and only, a whole load of 1 gigabit outputs. Due to the fact that this is managed by an external firm we cannot make any changes to it. So the only connections I have are 6 gigabit ethernet lines going to the lab. These wil get 6 different VLAN adresses that will be placed outside the firewall for unrestricted interent acces. Appart from that we have a budget of around 1500 Euro's excluding cables for the network hardware. What i would like: - Load balancing input that uses at least 2 of the incomming gigabit lines - If we can use all 4 gigabit lines perfect! If not, i would connect 1 incomming line to the inbuilt gigabit card of the File server for the FTP connection and allow only that port to go out. Good idea? - 10 gigabit connection between the workstations and file server - 10 gigabit connection to at least 4 (at this point) unused cat6a wall plates - gigabit connection to all other unused cat 6a wall plates - gigabit POE connection to the wifi acces point - No bottleneck between the wireless networks and the 10 gigabit connections, we will be using the workstations as streaming servers to the 30 oculus quest headsets with as high as possible bitrate content. The most importent part is het internal network due to editing of the file server and streaming to the quest headsets. The higher we can get the outside connection the better but if cost-wise this is a problem then i'll settle with a 1 gigabit link to the FTP and a 1 gigabit link to the network, with the option to upgrade to 10 gigabit if the building switch gets an update. I cannot seem to find the hardware that suits all my needs. EDIT: Since we are before the firewalls, something with basic security would be appriciated. Can you guys help?