I would like to suggest a few AP design/feature ideas to you and if anyone else share my ideas feel free to comment with improvements.
An AP for hotel/school/public area that is designed to be in-wall mounted with PoE+ power and a micro switch built in for up to 3 ports (1 should be PoE out to power an IP phone or some other small device in a hotel room maybe).
An AP with higher IP rating for outdoor use with external antennas maybe and also micro switch so that it could be used as an PtP/PtMP bridge.
Small AP that could be on a office desk also with micro switch with PoE out for a IP phone and gigabit link for PC.
48 or 24 (full) PoE switch.
If this topic or ideas are duplicated I am truly sorry and feel free to delete my post. BUT please note that I appreciate your company, products and your vision.
I actually would like to see Alta Labs actually offer better hardware specs than ubiquiti does today on any future product they sell.
IMHO
all switches and APs should come with 2.5GB nic standard as the lowest common denominator.
I would like to see an affordable 10 Gigabit RJ45 multi-gig switch (2.5/5/10) that supports PoE++ (not all ports maybe just 2-4 to keep costs low)
WIFI 7 hardware that can compete or beat TP-Link omada (the best bang for buck today for wifi)
Alta Labs software is very promising and they hired a few ex-ubiquiti employees. Myself I have ubiquiti at home but their hardware releases and newer product lines reallyyyyy suck and I want to move away from Unifi at some point.
What keeps me stuck with ubiquiti at home is that there really isn’t a competitor that can match my current setup in terms of price and software suite.
US-16-XG (12 SFP+ and 4x10G RJ45) aggregation
US-Enterprise8-PoE (8x 2.5Gb RJ45 + 2xSFP+)
Flex mini 1gb switch for random IoT stuff hanging in my homelab like PiKVM
No current offering of theirs comes close to my current hardware; hopefully that changes reallyyyy soon because I am hoping and waiting…
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