Disclaimer: If there are any errors in this, I apologize as I was typing up notes in a hurry during the presentations.

I recently had the opportunity to attend UWC 2025 in London, UK. It was hosted at Evolution London, a lovely area, but it was a bit of a walk if you were taking public transit.

The day started with the keynote presentation from Robert Pera.

Network 10

• Microsegmentation: If you're already familiar with zones, this expands on that but provides more control for routing and firewall rules. This reminds me very much of Layer 7 rules on Meraki.
• Alarm Manager: Allows you to add web hooks to your PSA, Teams, Slack, etc in the very same way Alarm Manager functions in Protect today
• WAN Magic: Split traffic load balancing based on sessions. Bond all connections with a VPN tunnel between all WAN links and UI hosted infrastructure. There was no mention of cost on this or being able to self-host it, but it seems very similar to Peplink's SpeedFusion/FusionHub offering
• Mobile app improvements: Real-time data and more options exposed in the UI Network App
• New Site Orchestration: Deploy routing policies and WiFi networks to every site and keep these policies in sync. I'm hoping there is an option for per-site overrides, which is helpful when you're deploying WiFi SSIDs for Passpoint, but you need the change a few items at each site
• Call Quality Manager: View call flows from gateways and view traffic flows for Zoom/Google Meet/Teams, and show call quality for each call by device
• Flow Anomalies: Identify non-standard traffic flow to identify possible compromised devices or non-standard traffic flows

Protect

• There was also a brief mention about changes to the product app to manage larger camera deployments more efficiently
• View cameras and alarms from all your sites in a single view
• Improved Identity App

New Hardware

• EFG Core: 25 Gbps throughput vs the 11.4 Gbps throughput that the current EFG has. This model also has 100GB ports
• UNVR Instant: 8-Port POE Switch, integrated Viewport and 3.5" HDD Slot
• ENVR Core: 16 drive bays with up to 1000 camera capacity. It also has 2 Mini SAS HD slots for future expansion
• UNVR AI 8: Has AI Key integrated, 2 TOPs
• CloudKey AI: 50 TOPs compared to the AI Key (which is already released), which has 100 TOPs

The next presentation was called 2025 Emerging Technologies, which went over alot of things at a pretty rapid pace, so bear with me on this one.

• Improved Unifi Drive integration with the Identity App on Windows/Mac
• More cloud services are coming in the next version of Drive, along with storage pools which can have different cache and raid levels. Drive 3.0 should be released next month
• 2nd Generation NAS Hardware, which includes the UNAS2 and 4, which are smaller desktop format appliances with 2 and 4 disk bays.
• UNAS Pro 8: 8 drive bays and 2 NVMe M.2 slots
• UNAS Pro 4: 4 drive bays and 2 NVMe M.2 slots
• There was a mention about this hardware supporting ZFS, having mini-SAS connectors and hot-swappable power supplies. I'm assuming it's most likely the UNAS Pro series but again things were moving pretty quickly
  • New 5G Modems and routers including: 5G Link is powered by POE and has dual SIM, 5G Explorer for installation outdoors, which has dual SIMs and eSIM support and DreamRouter 5G is a router with built-in 5G connectivity
  • Unifi Pro AV: New AV bridge with 2 XLR in, 2 XLR out, 1 HDMI in and 1 HDMI out - all powered by POE
  • Unifi Pro AV Switches including EAV Aggregation, EAV 24 and UAV Bridge
  • Unifi UPS: UPS 2U 1500VA, UPS PRO 2200VA, UPS Pro Extended Battery 1440VaH along with UPS Tower and UPS Strip which is available in 600 or 1100VA versions.
  • New network appliance for customers who want to run a UniFi Gateway in their cloud environments (I see they took a page from Meraki on this one). At this time, you can only run it in AWS or Azure; there are no plans for an on-prem appliance for anyone who might use another cloud or want to host it internally.
  • Starting in Q1 next year, they want to start having single product lines that you can either use a hosted controller (either self-hosted, third party, etc) or use it as a Cloud Gateway
  • During the QA session, someone asked about a new updated Dream Wall (which is a horrible idea), and they admitted it was a bad idea and they don't have plans to refresh that.

Stay tuned for part 2!