Preparing for a UniFi Deployment
A successful UniFi deployment starts before equipment arrives. The planning work below reduces delays, change orders, coverage gaps, power problems, and ownership confusion.
Site and access
- Confirm access to every network room, closet, ceiling area, and secured location.
- Identify primary and backup onsite contacts.
- Provide accurate floor plans and note construction materials or high-density areas.
- Identify working-hour restrictions and required change windows.
Internet and addressing
- Document each ISP, circuit speed, handoff type, support contact, and account owner.
- Collect static IP, gateway, subnet, DNS, and modem or handoff details.
- Decide whether secondary internet or automatic failover is required.
Power, rack, and cabling
- Confirm grounded power and UPS capacity at core network locations.
- Inventory rack space, ventilation, patch panels, fiber, uplinks, and cable labels.
- Identify cabling additions or repairs before the deployment date.
Users, devices, and traffic
- Estimate concurrent users and client devices by area.
- List phones, cameras, access control, printers, IoT, guest devices, and specialized equipment.
- Identify bandwidth-sensitive applications, voice, video, remote access, and large transfers.
Security and ownership
- Define staff, guest, server, voice, camera, access, IoT, and management network boundaries.
- Confirm administrative owners, MFA requirements, configuration backup, and handoff expectations.
- Document retention, privacy, licensing, and regulated-work requirements for cameras or access control.
Acceptance criteria
Agree on the locations and applications that will be tested, expected internet performance, wireless coverage goals, failover behavior, VPN requirements, documentation, training, and the post-deployment support model.