G6 Edge cameras, UNAS 4 black and campus switches all land

Ubiquiti has pushed another batch of UniFi hardware out the door, and the headline items are the G6 Edge cameras, a black UNAS 4, and the Enterprise Campus switches moving from announced to orderable. The round-up was covered by this YouTube video, which walked through what has shipped and what is still sitting in the wings.

It is a mixed bag of genuinely significant gear and very small accessories, which is fairly normal for a monthly UniFi drop. The prices mentioned in the video are not Australian RRPs, and Ubiquiti has not stated local pricing or availability for any of it.

Here is what has actually changed, organised by how much it is likely to matter to an Australian network.

Enterprise Campus switches move to general availability

The Enterprise Campus family is now purchasable in four variants: 24-port and 48-port models, each available with or without PoE. The PoE versions are specified as PoE++, and port counts for the 10G ports differ between the PoE and non-PoE builds. All models include four 25G SFP28 ports and QSFP28 100G ports on the rear, which are there for stacking rather than general uplink duty.

Redundancy is the theme across the line: hot-swappable fans and dual power supplies are included in the box, and the stacking capability sits alongside MC-LAG and gateway shadow mode as ways of removing single points of failure. These are four-post units, so a shallow wall-mount cabinet is not going to cut it.

Above them sits the Enterprise Campus Switch Core, with 32 x 100G QSFP28 ports, five hot-swappable fan modules and two power supplies. It needs a deep rack, and it is now the most expensive switch Ubiquiti lists in the UniFi line. We covered the core switch and 100G stacking when it was first announced.

G6 Edge cameras run without an NVR

The G6 Edge Turret and G6 Edge Dome are now available. The notable part is standalone operation: each ships with 128GB of onboard storage pre-installed and can be set up through the Protect app without a separate recorder, though they can still be adopted into an NVR later if you want central recording.

They use the same 1/1.2″ 8MP sensor and comparable optics to the G6 Pro models, with onboard processing that supports the advanced detection features found on the newer NVR generation, including re-identification of a person across separate recordings.

A black UNAS 4, and some very small accessories

The UNAS 4 is now offered in black at the same price as the white version. Specification is unchanged: four drive bays, two NVMe slots for SSD cache, a 5Gbps USB-C port, and a 2.5GbE port that doubles as the PoE++ power input, with a PoE adapter supplied in the box. The NVMe cache drives are sold separately.

Also out: black NVMe trays as replacement parts, and IR blaster and IR receiver accessories for the EAV Bridge. The Bridge carries one IR port, so it is either a blaster or a receiver at each end, not both, which is the sort of detail worth noticing before you order.

• UNAS 4 black: four bays, dual NVMe cache slots, PoE++ powered
• Black NVMe tray sold as a spare part
• IR blaster and IR receiver for the EAV Bridge, used in pairs across the network
• Still to come: G6 Edge Bullet with pole mount included, and a SuperLink gateway with LTE for high availability

BUZY’s take

The G6 Edge line is the release that changes real projects here. A camera that records usefully on its own suits small sites, remote sheds and single-camera retrofits where putting in a recorder was never going to be justified. Note the price gap against the G6 Pro, though: if you are specifying a dozen cameras feeding a central NVR anyway, the Edge premium buys you capability you may not use.

The Enterprise Campus switches and the core are a different conversation entirely. Very few Australian SMB sites need 32 ports of 100G, and the ones that do have procurement processes measured in quarters. For integrators, the interesting part is that UniFi now has an answer when a client’s network outgrows aggregation — the enterprise deployment path no longer ends with a shrug. Just budget for a deep four-post rack and real power, because these are not cupboard devices.

The UNAS 4 in black is, we will be honest, paint. Welcome paint, if you have a rack of black gear and one white box ruining the photos, but nobody should re-plan a storage appliance purchase over it. The IR accessories are similarly minor, and only matter if you already run EAV Bridges.

Australian availability and local pricing have not been confirmed for any of these, and Ubiquiti’s release timing often runs well ahead of stock landing here. We would plan projects on what you can actually source today rather than on a launch listing.

Covered by this YouTube video on YouTube.