[Guide] What equipment to buy for Sonic 10 Gigabits Fiber

[js9erfan]

Does any of this hardware provide multi-WAN support? I've got a backup provider and would like to plug their modem into a port for those rare times the fiber is down for maintenance or a weather event. (In the last year, Xfinity was down when a car hit a pole, and ATT fiber was down when one of their distribution sites flooded.)

Right now I have a Raspberry Pi 4B running Debian that's acting as my router. The main gigabit Ethernet port goes to Sonic and a gigabit USB3-Ethernet adapter goes to the LAN. If the fiber is down, it re-routes to my cable modem on the LAN. (It also permanently routes some traffic to peers on Comcast that way.)

If you're referring to UniFi's gateways then yes as of unc v9.1 though it looks like configuration options are somewhat limited: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/3 ... i-Gateways

[drbubbles]

Would be nice if the UDR7 could be adopted in AP only mode via it's 10Gbps rj45 with the UCG-fiber (or UXG-fibdr), although I expect that would be wishful thinking. Maybe they'll release a wifi7 ap with 10Gbps uplink and same number of streams as the udr7, i.e less streams than an E7 but still faster than 2.5Gbps.

The new U7-Pro-XG and XGS have 10Gbps uplink now. Less antennas than the E7, but >5Gbps throughput on both the 5GHz and 6GHz radios according to the spec. They don't (yet?) have the extended range capability that the E7 has (enabled by Automated Frequency Coordination (EFC) which allows the 6GHz radio to transmit more power provided a look up table of rules about the local environment is ok with that). The client devices still need to respond with enough power for a decent two way conversation though (just like with any AP) so it doesn't guarantee a good connection.

[bobfff]

Has anyone had any experience with the new Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Fiber router? Has one 10GbE (RJ45) wan port, two 10Gb SFP+ ports, and four 2.5GbE ports, one with POE+. $279 w/out storage but can add NVMe

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all ... /ucg-fiber

Thanks!

Bob

[crbowman]

The Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Fiber looks interesting for Sonic use but they're sold out and it's not clear the IDS can run at full 10G speed. But if you're willing to take some throughput hit, or forgo IDS, they do look like interesting devices. What I dislike is that it's hard to tell which devices support complete local configuration and which ones force you to run a cloud instance or use their's neither of which I want to do. Anyone have speed test data for these devices on Sonic?

[js9erfan]

The Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Fiber looks interesting for Sonic use but they're sold out and it's not clear the IDS can run at full 10G speed. But if you're willing to take some throughput hit, or forgo IDS, they do look like interesting devices. What I dislike is that it's hard to tell which devices support complete local configuration and which ones force you to run a cloud instance or use their's neither of which I want to do. Anyone have speed test data for these devices on Sonic?

The ucg-fiber is capable of up to 5g with ids/ips enabled. And yes, you can manage it locally via their bundled network controller app which is what I do over vpn for the ubiquiti switches and ap's I have at multiple locations. I prefer to have full control over remote access (vs relying on their remote management implementation) and won't be surprised if they start charging a user subscription or licensing fee at some point for their cloud/remote management features.

Their efg can do up to 12.5g ips routing for $2k of course