--- title: "UniFi Enterprise Campus Switches: Who They're For" description: Ubiquiti launched its Enterprise Campus switch line in September 2026. Here is what the new PoE+++ and 100G models change, and who actually needs them. date: 2026-09-15 updated: 2026-09-28 category: unifi tags: [UniFi, Switching, Business] url: "https://relaypoint.ca/blog/unifi-enterprise-campus-switches-explained" author: RelayPoint Technologies --- Ubiquiti announced a new UniFi Enterprise Campus switch line on September 3, and a few customers have forwarded us the announcement asking whether they should hold off on a project until they can get one. For most of them the answer is no. The longer answer is more useful, because the new line tells you where Ubiquiti is going, and for two or three specific kinds of site it genuinely changes what we would quote. ## What Ubiquiti actually launched There are three pieces to it. Access switches, in 24 and 48 port versions, with and without an "S". The Enterprise Campus 24 PoE gives you 8 ports at 2.5 GbE and 16 at 10 GbE, all of them PoE capable, plus two 25G SFP28 uplinks, in a 1U chassis with two hot-swappable 600 W power modules. The 24S version adds four 25G SFP28 ports and two 100G QSFP28 ports, along with switch stacking and cross-stack LAG. An aggregation switch built around 100G QSFP28 and 25G SFP28 ports. And a core switch, rated by Ubiquiti at 3.2 Tbps with multi-chassis LAG, so a pair of them can be run together and one can fail without taking the building down. All of it still runs from the same UniFi console as a two-person office, with no per-device licence, which is the part that keeps pulling people away from the traditional enterprise vendors. ## PoE+++ is the headline, and the thing to plan around Ubiquiti is using "PoE+++" for 90 W delivered on a single port. The tiers step up through the familiar 15.4 W, 30 W, 60 W and 90 W levels, so anything you already own still works, and the new ceiling is there for the heavier stuff: pan-tilt-zoom cameras with heaters, high-power access points, digital signage, some door controllers, and increasingly desk phones and monitors. The number to pay attention to is the total budget, not the per-port maximum. Ubiquiti lists total PoE availability on the Campus 24 PoE anywhere from 450 W up to 2,250 W, and where you land depends on how many power modules are fitted and what voltage you feed them. That upper figure is an electrical conversation with your contractor, not a setting in the software. If you have not thought about total draw before, our guide to [PoE budgets](/blog/poe-budgets-explained) covers the arithmetic. Two other consequences follow from that. A switch capable of pushing 2,000 W into cables makes real heat, so the closet needs airflow. And dual power modules only buy you redundancy if they are on separate circuits. ## Who this is for Sites with a fibre backbone and more than a hundred drops. Schools, municipal buildings, larger manufacturers with several buildings on one property, anywhere with an IT person who already knows what stacking and Layer 3 at the edge mean and has been asking for them. If you have a core closet feeding six or seven IDFs, redundant supplies and 100G uplinks are worth paying for, because the failure you are insuring against takes out the whole site rather than one room. ## Who this is not for Nearly everyone we install for in Norfolk, Oxford, Brant and Haldimand. A twelve-person office, a clinic, a winery tasting room, a shop with a mezzanine office: a standard UniFi Pro switch with PoE++ covers all of it with room left over. Look at what the devices actually draw. A typical dome camera sits between 5 W and 12 W. An indoor access point runs 15 W to 25 W. A door reader is a rounding error. Fill a 24 port switch with those and you are nowhere near a standard PoE budget, let alone 2,250 W. The 10 GbE ports are the same story. Ten gig to a desk does nothing when the internet handoff is 500 Mbps and the files live in Microsoft 365. It matters between switches, and between a switch and a NAS, and that is about it for most small businesses. We wrote up how we pick models in our [UniFi switch buying guide](/blog/unifi-switch-buying-guide-small-business), and the logic has not changed. ## What it changes for the rest of us Two practical things. First, cabling. Running 10 GbE reliably over copper across a full-length run means Cat6A, not Cat6. If you are wiring a building now and there is any chance you will want 10 gig at the edge in five years, that decision gets made at rough-in and nowhere else. We install Cat6A drops from $245 each, against $195 for Cat6, and the difference is far cheaper today than pulling the building again later. There is more detail in our [Cat6 versus Cat6A comparison](/blog/cat6-vs-cat6a-2026). Second, it confirms Ubiquiti is serious about the top end. If you were worried about specifying UniFi for a larger site because there was nothing above the Pro line, that gap is closing. ## What we would suggest If a switch refresh is on your list this fall, start with what you have rather than what is new. We do a network audit for $495: what is installed, what is end of life, where the bottleneck actually is, and what we would change in what order. More often than not the answer is a firmware plan and two more access points, not a new switch. Ongoing management is covered under our [UniFi managed services](/services/support/unifi-managed-services). If the audit does point at new hardware, we quote everything in writing before work starts. Ubiquiti's Canadian pricing on the Campus line was not published at the time of writing, so we will price it properly rather than guess at it here. Labour is $150/hr ($135/hr for UniFi Care clients). On the Hamilton, Burlington and Oakville side, visits start at a $595 minimum that the labour on that visit counts toward; parts are extra. Planning a new build or a fit-out anywhere from [Simcoe](/areas/simcoe) to Oakville? Have a look at our [office network setup](/services/connect/office-network-setup) page, or [get in touch](/contact) and we will walk the space with you. ## Sources - [Introducing: Next-Gen Enterprise Networking, Ubiquiti blog](https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-next-gen-enterprise-networking) - [UniFi Enterprise Campus Switching](https://ui.com/switching/enterprise-campus) - [UniFi Enterprise Campus 24 PoE tech specs](https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/switching/ecs-24-poe) - [UniFi Enterprise Campus 24S PoE tech specs](https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/switching/ecs-24s-poe) - [Ubiquiti What's New](https://ui.com/whats-new)