A pear is hanging ... from Poe-Out, 16 GigabitEthernet. Or new all-weather routers and switches Ubiquiti

Ubiquiti all-weather wireless solutions , despite a considerable number of competitors, continue to enjoy steady demand, since Ubiquiti offers new, productive and technically interesting solutions all the time.
However, until recently, operators faced the problem of locating the switching equipment of the base station, namely, switches, media converters, power injectors.
Recently, ubiquiti proposed an original solution to this problem: a series of all-weather EdgePoint routers and switches with optical ports and Poe-Out, which we will consider today.

Finding and renting server rooms for indoor units is a rather unpleasant task.
Firstly, such premises are not available everywhere at all, and secondly, it is very illogical to pay money for the rental of premises and place only a couple of switches there.
A partial solution to the problem is the use of thermostated containers.
However, the cost of a weather-proof container can be comparable to the cost of all the equipment it contains, if you remember the prices of ubiquiti solutions.
And the size and weight of a typical thermal container somewhat limits the possibility of its installation on light mast structures.
But now we have an alternative: EdgePoint routers and switches in all-weather performance.
The ideology of the series EdgePoint - a complete rejection of the use of premises on the site.
All that is needed to organize a communication center: a switch, a media converter, a power injector, is now in one small container, not exceeding the size of a 23 Db antenna (and for A4, sheet A4).
At the same time, the capabilities of the new devices are quite serious:
The first two models of EdgePoint are routers with sfp connectors, POE and OSPF routing functions, and the third is a powerful L3 switch with 10 Gbit SFP + slots.
All devices can be powered as a separate dc input, and on a twisted pair and at the same time connect the poe of consumers (of course, Poe budget when connecting EdgePoint will be very limited).
So, consider the EdgePoint models and their scope in more detail.


The younger EP-R6 model is very similar to the EdgeRouter X : 5 Gigabit ports with Poe Out, though only in 24-volt mode, SFP slot, however, it claims a dual-core processor with hardware traffic processing, which puts it in line with the performance EdgeRouter poe.
Functionally, the device is seen as a terminal node / repeater, a three four sector base station.
The lack of support for 54 volts POE out makes it impossible to use it with airFiber 5 / 5u / 24.


EP-R8 - weatherproof EdgeRouter Pro - 6 Gigabit ports, two SFP, hardware traffic processing unit.
In addition to the increased, relatively younger model, the performance here appears to support Poe out 54 volts on two ports, which allows you to connect AirFiber 5 / 5U / 24 or motorized surveillance cameras, and 6 ports allow you to combine relay and 4 sector base station.
Of the additional features - a niche for laying optical patch cords and a second Poe-in port, without the possibility of data transfer, which allows you to send more than 120 watts of power to the device via twisted pairs.

EP-S16 - 16 port version of the EdgeSwitch. Favorable difference from the router is the presence of 2 SFP + slots, which allows you to bring up to 20 Gbps to the device.
A big plus of the device is 4 ports with increased Poe power.
The remaining ports can power both 802.3af / at devices and 24 volt consumers.
There is a niche for laying optical patch cords and the ability to mount on the body of picostation to control the device via Wi-Fi.
A large number of ports and output power allows you to connect to the device not only multi-sector base stations, but also aggregated channels, for example, using AirFiber nxn.
With a small Poe-budget of consumers, the device can be powered by two Poe in ports.
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In general, new solutions are very interesting.
In fact, I would like to add to them perhaps an all-weather AC-DC unit for 120-200 watts and support for 4G modems for organizing Out-of-band base station control.
Among the drawbacks is the temperature range from -20 degrees, however, the practice says that ubiquiti devices function stably at lower temperatures than stated.

PS But the shape of the case of new products really looks like an inverted pear.