Hi and welcome to this edition
of Out the Box. My name’s Paul. We have a look at what is in this box. This is the Ubiquiti USW-Ultra. Now there are currently three versions
of this in the product range. They're all based around the same item,
which is the actual switch itself. So this video will cover all of them. They're all just different
powered options. Not going to be big technical overview, give you
some technical information, but you can find out more in the fact
sheets or over on our You
Tube channel, where we've got other videos on how to make this all work
together with other Ubiquiti products. All right.
So what are you going to get in the box? You are going
to get your conformity guide. All right. Probably
never come out of the plastic wrap. What else are you going to get? You are going to get a drilling guide
and level. There you go. All right. Because you can wall mount this. You are going to get the wall
mount bracket. Now, this is interesting. This is a slight change
fro
m how we've seen Ubiquiti do this before. On a number of the other devices
that we've got where it's wall mounted, we've seen it that you clip it
onto the wall and clip it down. I think Ubiquiti have realized that’s easy
maybe to push up with the cables when you're trying to connect them
like this and they push up and off. So we've got a slightly different option. So I can show you the back there, you can see and basically
we've got the wall mount bracket, we push it into place. There we go. And
then it clips, clips into place to hold it. Let me just show you that again. All right. So we've got the device. It's going to come up to the wall
like this. All right. And it clips into place. So now we've got that as an option. So maybe a little bit of an improvement
there if you do want to wall mount
that. You are going to get some screws and lugs as well to mount that wall
bracket. The version I've got is the 60 watt, we'll talk about the differences
in a moment. So you're going to get a po
wer cable. This is European, but if you're here
in Australia, we change that around to be the Australian connector. All right. And then let's talk about the three
different models. We'll talk about the unit in a moment. This has three options to be powered. So the USW-Ultra comes without
any power pack, without those power cable that I've shown you, just the accessories,
the wall mount bracket, the conformity guide, the drilling
and the screws and lugs. This can be powered by a PoE switch. You n
eed to really have
that switch doing PoE++. So it can deliver. I think 40 or so watts to this. You have an end up of you, about 42 watts
of usable power across the seven ports. Yes. You hear I say it is an eight point
switch. I'll talk to you about the eighth
port here in a moment. That's where you're going to actually
PoE power from. That's going to come
from your upstream switch. So your first option
is to power it from a switch. All right. We'll talk about what wattages
maybe in a moment. You
r second option is, so you've got 42 watts of usable power across
all of your switch ports, there. The second option
is the 60 watt so the USW-Ultra 60 watt and you're going to get
a 60 watt power pack. So here we go.
You can see the power in on there. All right. Power pack is like this and your power in. The 60 watt power pack, it's going to give you usable
52 watts across all of those ports. Then the next model up is the
USW-Ultra 210 watt, 210 watt It has a power pack almost the same size
as
this switch itself. All right. And will provide 210
watts of power to the unit with a usable I think it's 202 watts of power across
all of the switch ports. What do we need different wattage for? Very simple. Every device that we power,
maybe a wireless access point, a VoIP phone, a camera or something, uses
different PoE amounts of wattage. So say, for instance, a G5 bullet, one of the Ubiquiti products
that’s a camera, uses about 5 watts. So we've got seven ports here. So I need 35 watts of po
wer
to be able to run across these. So if I was going to use a 60 watt power
pack, I'd be great if I was going to have a switch that could give
me PoE+ power, PoE++ then, again, I could use that. We'll talk about maybe
what the power PoE bit is in an a moment. But what if I had five U6-LRs
which are the big wireless access points? They need around 18
to 20 watts of power each. All right. So again, across five of those,
I'd need about 100 watts of power. So my 60 watt power pack isn't going to w
ork,
so I'm going to want to use my 210 watt So it would be the USW-Ultra 210.
So when we're mixing and matching, it's just important when we think about
what have we got? Have we got VoIP phones, have
we got cameras, have we got access points? What is their maximum PoE
consumption value and that’ll allow us to work out what we need to have powering this. So let's start with this
as the USW-Ultra, because I think you want to probably see this. It is an eight point switch but
what you notice ther
e? Only seven ports. So we have seven 1 gig PoE+ ports here. I think they can give out 30 watts of power maximum
for each of them up at this end here. And we've got a tiny little reset hole. And then down here
we've just got our LED indicator that will show it's running. Sort
of plasticky polycarbonate. On the back here we have, up this end, our power in if we are powering this from a power pack. All right. And then up here, this is our eighth port. This one here, it's not a PoE out port, it's
j
ust a PoE in port. You should be able to use that just as
a normal Ethernet cable port as well. So that's why it's an eight port. But you'd only be able to use it
as a normal standard data connection. You can't use this to onward power,
something else. So why would we have just this on its own
without the power pack? Well, imagine that we've got a
decent PoE++ switch, a Ubiquiti Pro or something like that. Maybe even a USW-24
and I need some cameras and an access point
that are 20, 30, 40 meters
away from that. I can run a single ethernet cable. I can mount this in the ceiling void.
All right. I can run my cable back to my switch. My switch will power this. I don't need to have a normal power socket,
mains power socket near it, and then I can obviously split this out
to all of my other devices. So just buying this without the power pack
and if you've got a good other switch, could be a great starting point for you. So like I said, seven
1 gig PoE+ ports on the front and the back here
is a normal
Ethernet port or PoE in, really wants PoE++ to make it work.
I believe you can send PoE+ but it's, sorry, just normal PoE+
but it's going to give you only like 16 watts of usable power which might be okay
for a couple of cameras if that's all you want.
Then couple it with a power pack. 60 watt. All right now this is just still a non-PoE port,
but I have seven ports at the front. All right. That can use my 52 watts from this. Add,
instead, the 210 watt and now across those seven ports
,
I can spread my 200 watts or so of power. So a really versatile unit. It's about the same size
as the USW-Lite-8, but the USW-Lite-8 is eight ports,
but only four of them are PoE and only can go up to,
I think, 42 watts of power in total. So this is a really, really nice unit
to have three options in this, makes it really, really versatile. Let me hold it up again for you. Let the camera focus. So those are your seven
1 gig PoE ports. And again on the back there is your PoE in, PoE in, there y
ou go or just data in. So hopefully that's been useful. Head
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