Ubiquiti unveils UniFi Network 11 with Matter support

Ubiquiti has introduced the release candidate for UniFi Network 11, a major generational upgrade to its network management platform. The update features a redesigned telemetry architecture that improves data collection scalability by over 30 percent, providing administrators with live traffic flows and a 24-hour topology history to reconstruct connection changes and outages.

A significant addition is the integration of the Matter smart home standard. While currently limited to monitoring and diagnostics rather than direct control, UniFi Network 11 allows users to view Matter and Thread-connected devices within the network overview. This includes visibility into battery levels, firmware versions, signal strength, and connection paths.

The update also introduces WiFi-WAN functionality, allowing specific hardware like the Dream Router 5G to use a 5-GHz wireless hotspot as a primary internet connection or failover. Notably, the transition to a PostgreSQL database architecture marks a significant change in system requirements and may result in the loss of previous statistical data during the migration.