Ubiquiti News
Ubiquiti has introduced the Enterprise Firewall Core, a rack-mount security platform aimed at organisations well beyond the scale most UniFi gateways are built for. It runs on 24 Neoverse N2 cores, the same hyperscale-class compute architecture Ubiquiti used in the Dream Machine Beast, and carries no security licensing fees.
The pitch is straightforward: take the compute approach that made the Beast punch above its weight in the mid-market, then scale it up for multi-site enterprises that need deep packet inspection, SSL visibility and thousands of VPN tunnels running at once.
For Australian buyers, this is squarely a top-of-stack product. It is the kind of box that anchors a head office or data centre core, not something that replaces a Cloud Gateway in a small office.
Ubiquiti positions the platform around session scale and concurrent security workloads rather than raw routing alone. Threat detection runs against tens of thousands of signatures, with real-time intelligence updates supplied by Proofpoint through Cybersecure Enterprise.
| Function | Stated throughput |
|---|---|
| Threat detection | Up to 79 Gbps |
| Full SSL inspection | Up to 61 Gbps |
| Aggregate IPsec | Up to 38 Gbps |
The SSL number is the one worth dwelling on. Encrypted traffic is now the default, and inspection performance is usually where firewalls fall over well before their headline routing figure is reached.
High availability is handled through VRRP-enabled Shadow Mode, with Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation at the core and stacking on connected switches extending redundancy out to the edge.
Management sits in Site Manager, which brings SD-WAN orchestration and identity-aware policy under one interface. Ubiquiti cites integration with Entra, Google Workspace and LDAP so that policy follows the user rather than the port they happen to be plugged into.
Let us be clear about audience. If you run a home lab or a 30-person office, the Enterprise Firewall Core is not your next purchase, and nothing about this announcement changes what you should be specifying. A Cloud Gateway remains the right answer at that size.
Where it does matter is the ceiling. Until recently, an organisation that outgrew UniFi had to migrate to a traditional vendor and start paying annual subscriptions for threat prevention and SSL inspection. A licence-free platform quoting 61 Gbps of SSL inspection materially changes that conversation, particularly for schools, councils, healthcare groups and multi-branch retailers running tight capital budgets.
For integrators, the practical upside is that a client can grow across dozens of sites without a platform change or a retraining exercise. The same policy model, the same Site Manager view, the same switching and wireless underneath.
Two cautions. First, published throughput figures are laboratory maximums, and real numbers depend on which inspection services you enable together, so size with headroom. Second, a device of this class belongs in a properly ventilated cabinet with clean, protected power, and redundant PSUs only help if they are fed from separate protected circuits. Plan the power protection and rack layout at design time, not after delivery.
Australian pricing and availability were not detailed in the announcement, and we would expect this to remain a specified, project-driven product rather than a shelf item. We will share more once local details are confirmed.
Read the full announcement at blog.ui.com.
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