STIR/SHAKEN is a new rule in the US, brought it in by the FCC to help combat the rampant increase in robocalls and caller ID spoofing. Here in the UK, the term robocalling isn’t commonly used and is referred to as spam calls. We also don’t get anywhere as near as many calls as people do in the US, hence why it is such a huge issue. STIR/SHAKEN aims to […]
Ubiquiti has been producing and developing UniFi Protect for around four years now. Back when the platform was launched, the only device capable of running the software was the Cloud Key Gen2+. The decision to stop allowing end users to host the software themselves was met with a lot of negativity, but as Ubiquiti released more and more hardware devices it did become less of an issue. The question is […]
Early last year, we published the 2021 edition of the UniFi Protect Product Line Guide and in the nearly two years since then, the UniFi Protect product line has changed quite a lot. First of all, a new larger UNVR was launched, in the form of the UNVR Pro which has seven bays, as well as a small 1.3-inch LCM screen. Many new cameras have been launched, including the AI […]
Ubiquiti has today revealed the all new Camera AI DSLR. The camera works with UniFi Protect and is in the Early Access store only at this point. Ubiquiti has launched the device to the EA store and should be available to everyone as ‘GA’ soon. The company posted a YouTube video outlining the ways DSLR cameras have a benefit in photography and that the new AI DSLR is the first PoE […]
Ubiquiti is currently experiencing issues with its remote access service, unifi.ui.com. The portal gives customers remote access to their remotely installed UniFi OS Consoles, which could be anything from a UNVR Pro storing footage from CCTV cameras or a UDM SE powering a school network somewhere. Ubiquiti posted an update to its status page saying that the issue will be affecting some customers and is affecting unifi.ui.com and UniFi Protect. […]
Ubiquiti has today released a new firmware update for the UniFi NeXt-Gen Gateway, or the UXG Pro as it is most commonly known as. This new update brings the router up to par with the UDM SE and UDR with support for a number of features that those devices have got over the last few months. For example, the UXG Pro now supports “WAN latency reporting and WAN packet loss […]
Ubiquiti has already released UniFi OS 2.x for the UDM SE and the UDR, but has left the older UDM and UDM Pro on UniFi OS 1.x. As a result, the older devices have been missing out on new features, such as load balancing for WANs, Suricata updates and more as the newer OS has had a more frequent and faster development, vs the older UniFi OS versions. However, Ubiquiti […]
This week, Apple has started to offer the Ubiquiti AmpliFi Alien on its online retail store in the US. The router was launched back in 2019 and has only recently gained official HomeKit support this year. Ubiquiti is best known for its cooperate wireless, routing and switching with UniFi and its core roots with WISP applications, with airFiber and airMAX. AmpliFi is a sub-brand operated under UI Labs and has […]
Earlier today, cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean experienced a large scale outage in its London UK LON1 region, affecting services hosted there. Ubiquiti’s cloud offering of UISP is hosted in DigitalOcean and from 16:10-18:35 BST it was experiencing poor connectivity, latency issues and packet loss. UISP users would have experienced lack of access to servers and if e-mail alerts were set up, countess reconnection events as devices struggled to connect to […]
Today, Ubiquiti has announced the new WiFiMan Wizard, a portable spectrum analyser. Ubiquiti has launched the device to the EA store and should be available to everyone as ‘GA’ soon. The company posted a YouTube video outlining the history of the WiFiMan app and what the new WiFiMan Wizard can do for you. The device is about the same size as a MagSafe Battery from Apple and can be attached […]
