Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company

Personally, I would argue that Ubiquiti handled the pandemic much better than other companies. Take the Cloud Key firmware: Back when it was first released, the thing was so unstable it had to be reset every few weeks. Every firmware update required a factory reset. Nowadays, it's solid. Even flashing beta builds is a smooth, issue-free process. Features like person and vehicle detection in their Protect lineup are a much welcome addition, as is the revamp of the Protect app. All of this happened during the pandemic.

I know people whine about how Ubiquiti unified everything under a global login, but come on.. if it works, it works. It's hardly a reason to bash Ubiquiti because you're upset you temporarily have to sign into ui.com.

Now, maybe they are putting more effort into Protect than they are into the network side of things. I don't know, because I primarily use them for Protect. With that being said, I'm fairly satisfied.

OTOH I know a lot of people who are pretty happy with them, but that might relate to the fact that I recently started at a company selling them (among other brands). What impressed me most was the well executed "single pane of glass" integration of the first deployment I saw; all switches could be easily managed from the FortiGate web interface. Compared to that the Unifi Manager feels like a chaotic hack job from the 90s.

(To be fair, at home I still use Unifi APs and the switches are based on bang-for-buck: The 8P GBe 2P SFP+ Mikrotik in the study and the 24P GBe PoE 4P SFP+ Aruba as a "core" in the basement [that is, once it arrives, for now an ancient Netgear switch has core switching duty], Firewall is a loaned FortiGate, which I will probably replace with an OPNSense when I have to return it -- I'd go all FortiNet if the basement switch alone wouldn't cost about as much as my PC, though).