Cambium network getting handed off - Need VPN

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EDIT/TLDR; Cambium worth it at twice the price over Ubiquiti for a hub and spoke VPN config?

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A company is dropping support of an organization and they are a cambium ecosystem, except for the hardware VPN gear between sites. I’m taking over the network and have been handed the reigns for the cambium stuff, seems easy enough to administer, they did a good job setting it up. However I need to replace the existing VPN hardware between sites and they quoted a cambium gateway at each site. No remote site has more than 5 workstations at it, and most sites are 50 Mbps WAN. Main hub has 20 users/workstations with a 100 Mbps connection.

My dilemma…

New to cambium, but it seems easy to get through and they are helpful with any questions and documentations about their VLAN config, etc. The cambium gateways are twice the price of a Ubiquiti dream machine pro, which I’ve used in several installs but never of this size of network involving 8 different sites. In peoples experience is Ubiquiti capable of this setup or am I setting myself up for failure and should stick with enterprise grade cambium gateways?

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From my experience with the UBNT firewalls the VPNs are shocking, doesn’t matter if it’s for users or S2S, they’ll randomly drop and the only fix from support is to reboot.

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Idk why you would attempt unifi for this… that being said I love the NSE product at Cambium but the ipsec VPN is new to the product and we have seen hiccups a few months ago but now we are seeing reliable connections but right now the highest count of sites we have is 4.

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Ubiquiti kit is prosumer. Cambium is mid tier enterprise.

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There is no comparison between cambium and ubiquiti. Don’t waste your money on ubnt for gateway kit which is poorly made.

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UDM Pro is really only good for small sites with no VPN or routing needs. VPN in my experience is very unstable and usually tough to get working.

I many advpn with fortigate, hub and spoke with sonocwall, and some random tplink systems - all of which are more stable than a UBNT on both ends.