Wondering if anybody has made the jump to UniFi UXG Pro Gateways at all?
We are about to upgrade our internet connections across our 12 schools and for some are looking at 5Gbps connections as the costs are not much more now for this speed. However, the Smoothwall appliances are not capable of this amount of through-put and we've not been entirely happy with Smoothwall for a while now and are therefore looking at moving away from them.
Plan would be to move to a cloud-based filtering product (with support for 1:1 devices which Smoothwall doesn't do, apart from their rubbish cloud offering) and we are currently involved in setting up trials with Securly, LightSpeed and potentially Senso.
All our routing is pretty much done on the core Aruba 5400 switches so would only route Internet traffic through the Gateway. Have contacted both Meraki and Aruba to look at their Gateway offerings with SD-WAN capability (we site-site VPN all 12 schools) but the costs for the Meraki and Aruba gateways are ridiculous! No educational discount per say, just potentially a bonus free year for each year purchased. Looking into it we'd potentially need at least a Meraki MX450 with quoted pricing so far of around 15k for the appliance and £25k for a 1yr license!
Now comes the UniFi UXG Pro... spec wise is pretty much on par with the MX450 and in some areas better. £500 and no yearly fee...! Yes I know support isn't the greatest and warranty is only for two years but I could buy many of these over the years if they go wrong and still not come anywhere near the price of the Meraki. We are looking at getting a technical support package through 4Gon for our UniFi wireless anyway to keep as banked time for when needed.
Watched many reviews online and whilst the GUI isn't always the best, the general reviews of the firewall performance and security is on par with pfSense.
Just wondering if anyone has gone for it and what the performance is like, reliability etc?
