UniFi Architecture Overview

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Enterprise Networking Industry vs. UniFi

Enterprise networking vendors have transformed physical infrastructure into an operating expense, charging perpetual licensing fees simply to keep devices functional.

At the same time, they centralize customer data and cloud-exposed systems, and provide no high availability control plane when the internet goes down.

The result is infrastructure that customers pay for, but don't truly own.

Enterprise Networking Industry vs. UniFi
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UniFi Hybrid-Cloud Architecture

UniFi is different. With a one-time purchase and a hybrid cloud architecture, every site operates through its own fast, private local control plane, while using Site Manager for secure global orchestration.

This delivers instant responsiveness, high availability, even when the internet is down, complete data privacy, and no required licensing. And the total cost of ownership is transformative.

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Total Cost of Ownership

In many cases, the cost to own an entire UniFi deployment is lower than what competitors charge for a single year of licensing fees.

As its name implies, UniFi delivers the industry's first truly converged end to end IT hardware platform.

Total Cost of Ownership
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Seamless Management System

UniFi networking, physical security, access control, communications, and more into a seamless management experience.

UniFi is simple to begin with, yet engineered for large scale deployments across MSPs, campuses, industrial environments, and modern enterprises.

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Upcoming Videos

In the upcoming videos, we'll take deep dives into topics like full stack high availability, zero trust networking with powerful role management, system-wide logging and telemetry, alarm pipelines, multi-site orchestration, zero-touch provisioning, enterprise phone support with SLA guarantees, leveraging the UniFi API, and much more.

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