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My network infrastructure used to be Meraki and Cisco based. I had Cisco 8 port PoE switches, a MR26 access point and a Meraki MX64W (which replaced a Z1) at my core. Unfortunately the licensing structure of Meraki gets expensive so when the AP license expired, I made my first jump to Ubiquiti with their nanoHD AP.

As an prosumer I wanted to make sure I had similar features to my prior environment and Ubiquiti met almost every check box. They also had a line of PoE and non-PoE cameras that integrated into the networking infrastructure with an on-premise NVR.

Final BOM:

  • UniFi Dream Machine Pro + HDD
  • UniFi Switch 8 POE-60W (2)
  • UniFi Switch Flex Mini
  • UniFi AP-nanoHD
  • UVC G3 Micro
                         +---------+
                    +----+ SW PoE  |
                    |    +---------+
    +----------+    |
    |  UDM Pro +----+
    +----------+    |                         +---------+
                    |                   +-----+ SW Mini |
                    |    +---------+    |     +---------+
                    +----+ SW PoE  +----+
                         +---------+    |
                                        |     +----+
                                        +-----+ AP |
                                              +----+