I can absolutely vouch for ubiquiti hardware.<p>I started in ~06 putting it in soekris machines as "use this to microwave a burrito" levels of powerful wifi APs for our campus.<p>Now Ubiquiti sells enterprise level hardware for next to nothing. Check out that unifi stuff, which is amazing, or the picostation2 HP, which is even more amazing.<p>And deceptively cheap. Like...<$100 for literally the best wireless AP on the market.
<i>Competing hardware doesn’t work with Ubiquiti’s software</i><p>Does anyone know how this is possible or what sort of techniques that can do this? I would imagine he incorporates some sort of hardware that needs to be present in order for the software to work but that can be easily copied. The other technique I can think of is software base (perhaps a hardware serial checker) but even that can easily be cracked.
Ubiquiti makes excellent products. We have been buying and installing their products for five years. However Mr. Pera really must hire a supply chain expert: frequently products are not available/delayed shipment/EOL/ etc. We have to purchase from other manufacturers out of necessity.
Interessting approach of not retaining his own sales force. Echews a lot of pain of matching company goals with incentives able to attract good sales people. Thing is I didn't to take this fact as far as to outsource sales. I like that guy!
I used his products since 2008, very cost-effective and neat, it also tells you that there is money to be made in hardware, or software-hardware combined business at SV, not just facebook like companies there.
Meraki who is doing mesh wifi, to some extent similar to UBNT, did not do well somehow, even with google's backup in the early stage. On the other hand, UBUT does everything Wifi, but mesh.
Don't believe the hype.<p><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/47694037" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnbc.com/id/47694037</a><p>He is so 'frugal' that he is buying the Memphis Grizzlies.