Today, Ubiquti has released two products, the new UXG Enterprise and the Enterprise Fortress Gateway, or EFG for short. Both devices are similarly named and have very similar, if not identical specs but are pretty different in their approach. Both devices cost $1,999 in the US and are super high performance and high end gateways. However, you can liken the EFG to a UDM and the UXG-Enterprise is by its name, a UXG. Earlier this year, Ubiquiti held a UniFi Conference around the world and at the time, it did show off the EFG, citing that more information would come soon.

What are these devices?

Due to both the EFG and UXG being very similar in specs, we'll combine them into one section. Both of these gateways are part of the Enterprise side of Ubiquiti and can route traffic at up to 23.5 Gbps with IDS and IPS disabled and impressively, with it enabled it can route at 12.5 Gbps. We also have six interfaces, with two 25G SFP28 ports, two 10GB SFP+ ports and two 2.5GbE Ethernet ports. The WAN uses one of the 25G and 2.5GbE ports, with the other ones of each reserved for LAN. The two 10G SFP+ ports are only for LAN, but port remapping should be supported if required.

The EFG is like a UDM and runs just the UniFi Network Application. Both the UXG-Enterprise and EFG have some impressive specs to boot. We have an 18-core ARM CPU running at 2GHz and 16GB of DDR4 RAM. Both devices also feature dual power supplies, which are hot-swappable. Interestingly, neither the EFG or UXG-Enterprise support the USP-RPS backup PSU device. The reason for this is not known.

The UXG Enterprise is very similar to the EFG, nearly identical actually. The only difference is that the EFG runs its own network application and the UXG Enterprise can be adopted to a Cloud Key or any cloud hosting available such as HostiFi. However, some features require certain hosting plans. For example, on the UXG the SSL/TLS decryption feature only works with the CloudKey Enterprise or Official UniFi Hosting. The reasoning for this is again, unknown but could be resource related.

Both devices support, as mentioned - SSL/TLS decryption. This is typically a feature received for networking devices that are much more expensive and also require ongoing licence fees. Ubiquiti will be able to look at search engine queries, URLs, LLM prompts and much more. However, it will require a signature to be installed on the client machine. So this type of thing makes more sense at a workplace setup.

"Available completely license-free on EFG, NeXT AI Inspection analyzes encrypted packets in real time to enhance IDS/IPS and content filtering precision and improve traffic identification. Additionally, access internal payload details enables powerful cybersecurity use cases, such as monitoring search engine and LLM queries for safety and security concerns."

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EFG or UXG?

If you know the difference between the other UXG and UDM models then this difference will make a lot of sense. For the first time, Ubiquiti has made the two choices literally identical, with the same specs and price. It just depends if you want to cloud host UniFi, or run it from its own hardware.

Availability

Both the Enterprise Fortress Gateway and UXG Enterprise are listed on the official Ubiquiti store, priced at $1,999 in the US and £1,990.80 in the UK. The EFG can be ordered now, with the UXG Enterprise being available on 30th September.