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For a large house, SOHO, or any other small business type application, they're basically unbeatable as a solution. Software testing is basically non-existent (or used to be), so you check the forums before any upgrades and always have a backup. But their hardware is solid. We have UniFi installs at places working without issue for so long that people forget where the hardware even is because it doesn't need to be touched. On the software side, you should be doing firmware and controller updates obviously.
Tplink is also fine BTW, for budget installs. Omada is not as good as UniFi though, sorry. It's close, but we've had more hardware hiccups with that system than UniFi.
As for the govt-blessings, I think it's all BS and for sale to whomever donates money, tplink didn't all of a sudden become unsafe, but YMMV. That's for you to decide for yourself. If you're dealing with a govt client or something, you'll have to navigate by the rigged rules.
Then over time, that became their competitive disadvantage. First, once CCP companies learned how to manufacture these products, they started competing against Ubiquiti at even lower prices. Then in the WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 era, Ubiquiti's new product launches were significantly delayed due to supply chain issues. On top of that, their unclear market positioning hurt their revenue.
They're now stuck in an awkward spot.
On the high end, their product quality can't cut it for serious enterprise network management. Even back when I was still working as a network engineer, they were already clearly falling behind similarly positioned incumbents like Cisco Meraki, or newer CCP companies like Huawei, whose products and engineering support are priced at unbelievably low levels (but riddled with spyware). A Huawei on-site engineer once called me at 4am promising the issue would be resolved by 8am (well, they didn't actually fix it that day anyway), which is the kind of hours that would be unimaginable in the US.
On the low end, their pricing can't compete with TPLink and similar brands for home use.
Back to the supply chain point: because they relied on CCP supply chains, and their control over those chains was far weaker than Apple's, much of their software foundation was actually written by engineers based in CCP territory. This has led to a string of security incidents at Ubiquiti over the years. Just recently, for example, a critical 10/10 severity vulnerability appeared, CVE-2026-22557, a path traversal flaw in the UniFi Network Application with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 10.0, requiring no authentication, no user interaction, and no special conditions to exploit, allowing full account takeover of the UniFi controller. I stopped using Ubiquiti in both corporate and home environments around 2019.
My current recommendations: for personal use, get a non-CCP router and flash OpenWrt, or use a USA-made router with its stock firmware. For small businesses, Cisco Meraki is the way to go(but some what expensive); for medium to large enterprises, Fortinet or Aruba.
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