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Switch 48
USW-48€359 excl. VAT
Switch 48 is a fanless UniFi Layer 2 switch for a 19-inch rack with many copper ports, SFP ports for fiber and a screen on the front, but no PoE.
Who it suits
Suits offices, schools and other premises with a network cabinet where many workstations, printers and other wired devices need to connect, often through a patch panel. The switch sits behind the gateway and gives the network more ports, while routing and the firewall stay with the gateway. The SFP ports can connect to fiber, for example to another cabinet or another building.
At a glance
- Number of ports
- 52
- Function level
- Fully managed
- Mounting
- Rack (1U)
Good to know
- Has no PoE output, so access points and cameras need a PoE switch or PoE injectors.
Price from Ubiquiti’s EU store, 2026-10-16
In the box
- Switch 48
- Power cable
- 2 × Rack ears
- Cage nuts
Specifications
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Price (excl. VAT) | €359 |
| Function level | Fully managed |
| Ports and PoE | |
| Ports | 48 × 1 Gbps RJ45 4 × 1 Gbps SFP |
| Number of ports | 52 |
| PoE ports | – |
| Strongest PoE | – |
| PoE budget | – |
| Performance | |
| Switching capacity | 104 Gbps |
| Forwarding rate | 77 Mpps |
| VLANs | 1,000 |
| MAC table | 16,000 |
| Features | |
| Layer 3 routing | No |
| STP and RSTP | Yes |
| Loop protection | Yes |
| IGMP snooping | Yes |
| 802.1X | Yes |
| IP-based ACLs | Yes |
| DHCP snooping | Yes |
| Link aggregation (LACP) | Yes |
| Stacking | No |
| MC-LAG | No |
| Pro AV profiles | No |
| Etherlighting | No |
| Power and redundancy | |
| Power supply | Power cord (C13) |
| Redundant power | – |
| Hot-swappable power supplies | – |
| Max power draw | 40 W |
| Hardware | |
| Display | 1.3" touchscreen |
| Cooling | Fanless |
| Physical | |
| Mounting | Rack (1U) |
| Dimensions | 442 × 285 × 44 mm |
| Weight | 3.9 kg |
| Operating temperature | -15 to 40 °C |
Prices in euros excluding VAT from Ubiquiti’s EU store, fetched 2026-10-16. The store may add a temporary surcharge for memory costs of about 10%.
“Not specified” means that neither Ubiquiti nor the sources we use state the value. “–” means it does not apply to the product.
Sources
Specifications come from Ubiquiti’s technical datasheets, the price from Ubiquiti’s EU store and routing throughput from ui.com.
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Details such as chipset, RAM type and cooling come from these sources:
Ubiquiti
- eu.store.ui.com – In the box; Cooling
- techspecs.ui.com – notes
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| Feature | Switch 48Standard |  Switch 24Standard |  Switch 16 PoEStandard |  Switch 24 PoEStandard |  Switch 48 PoEStandard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | |||||
| Price (excl. VAT) | €359 | €200 | €269 | €340 | €530 |
| Function level | Fully managed | Fully managed | Fully managed | Fully managed | Fully managed |
| Ports and PoE | |||||
| Ports | 48 × 1 Gbps RJ45 4 × 1 Gbps SFP | 24 × 1 Gbps RJ45 2 × 1 Gbps SFP | 8 × 1 Gbps RJ45 (PoE+) 8 × 1 Gbps RJ45 2 × 1 Gbps SFP | 16 × 1 Gbps RJ45 (PoE+) 8 × 1 Gbps RJ45 2 × 1 Gbps SFP | 32 × 1 Gbps RJ45 (PoE+) 16 × 1 Gbps RJ45 4 × 1 Gbps SFP |
| Number of ports | 52 | 26 | 18 | 26 | 52 |
| PoE ports | – | – | 8 | 16 | 32 |
| Strongest PoE | – | – | PoE+ | PoE+ | PoE+ |
| PoE budget | – | – | 42 W | 95 W | 195 W |
| Performance | |||||
| Switching capacity | 104 Gbps | 52 Gbps | 36 Gbps | 52 Gbps | 104 Gbps |
| Forwarding rate | 77 Mpps | 39 Mpps | 27 Mpps | 39 Mpps | 77 Mpps |
| VLANs | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| MAC table | 16,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 | 16,000 |
| Features | |||||
| Layer 3 routing | No | No | No | No | No |
| STP and RSTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Loop protection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IGMP snooping | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 802.1X | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IP-based ACLs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| DHCP snooping | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Link aggregation (LACP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Stacking | No | No | No | No | No |
| MC-LAG | No | No | No | No | No |
| Pro AV profiles | No | No | No | No | No |
| Etherlighting | No | No | No | No | No |
| Power and redundancy | |||||
| Power supply | Power cord (C13) | Power cord (C13) | Power cord (C13) | Power cord (C13) | Power cord (C13) |
| Redundant power | – | – | – | – | – |
| Hot-swappable power supplies | – | – | – | – | – |
| Max power draw | 40 W | 25 W | 18 W (excl. PoE) | 25 W (excl. PoE) | 45 W (excl. PoE) |
| Hardware | |||||
| Display | 1.3" touchscreen | 1.3" touchscreen | 1.3" touchscreen | 1.3" touchscreen | 1.3" touchscreen |
| Cooling | Fanless | Fanless | Fanless | Fanless | Fanless |
| Physical | |||||
| Mounting | Rack (1U) | Rack (1U) | Rack (1U) | Rack (1U) | Rack (1U) |
| Dimensions | 442 × 285 × 44 mm | 442 × 200 × 44 mm | 442 × 200 × 44 mm | 442 × 200 × 44 mm | 442 × 285 × 44 mm |
| Weight | 3.9 kg | 2.7 kg | 2.8 kg | 3 kg | 4.5 kg |
| Operating temperature | -15 to 40 °C | -5 to 45 °C | -5 to 40 °C | -5 to 40 °C | -5 to 40 °C |
| Good to know | |||||
| Notes | Has no PoE output, so access points and cameras need a PoE switch or PoE injectors. | Has no PoE output, so access points and cameras need a PoE switch or PoE injectors. | Only eight of the 16 copper ports provide PoE+, and the PoE budget is shared between them. It does not cover eight devices drawing full PoE+ power (up to 32 W per port). | 16 of the 24 copper ports provide PoE+, and the PoE budget is shared between them. It does not cover 16 devices drawing full PoE+ power (up to 32 W per port). | 32 of the 48 copper ports provide PoE+, and the PoE budget is shared between them. It does not cover 32 devices drawing full PoE+ power (up to 32 W per port). |
Prices in euros excluding VAT from Ubiquiti’s EU store, fetched 2026-10-16. The store may add a temporary surcharge for memory costs of about 10%.
“Not specified” means that neither Ubiquiti nor the sources we use state the value. “–” means it does not apply to the product.
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