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.
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• Identify primary and backup onsite contacts.
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• Provide accurate floor plans and note construction materials or high-density areas.
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• Identify working-hour restrictions and required change windows.
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Internet and addressing

• Document each ISP, circuit speed, handoff type, support contact, and account owner.
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• Collect static IP, gateway, subnet, DNS, and modem or handoff details.
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• Decide whether secondary internet or automatic failover is required.
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Power, rack, and cabling

• Confirm grounded power and UPS capacity at core network locations.
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• Inventory rack space, ventilation, patch panels, fiber, uplinks, and cable labels.
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• Identify cabling additions or repairs before the deployment date.
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Users, devices, and traffic

• Estimate concurrent users and client devices by area.
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• List phones, cameras, access control, printers, IoT, guest devices, and specialized equipment.
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• Identify bandwidth-sensitive applications, voice, video, remote access, and large transfers.
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Security and ownership

• Define staff, guest, server, voice, camera, access, IoT, and management network boundaries.
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• Confirm administrative owners, MFA requirements, configuration backup, and handoff expectations.
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• Document retention, privacy, licensing, and regulated-work requirements for cameras or access control.
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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.