I have a business that uses Vodafone UFB for internet connection. We also have two phone lines over fibre, so we were provided with the Vodafone Ultra Hub router (not the Plus, as the plus has less phone ports...).

We currently have an annoying setup where the fibre is terminated in a cabinet in the kitchen, at the front of the business. The router sits in the cabinet and we have a single Cat 5E cable that connects to our rack-mounted switch in the server room. We tried to get them to bring fibre straight into the back room, but it wasn't possible.

Anyway, I'm looking to have just a bit more piece of mind, as I don't particularly like the Ultra Hub and we want to host services on-premises with some reliability. We have a lot of static routes, so it would be good to have all of those settings on something we own, in case we have another problem with Vodafone (quite frequent at the moment). Currently, we have one network with the Ultra Hub as a DHCP server, but I'm thinking of two options:

 

1. Pass through the connection from the Ultra Hub to an (enterprise) router, maybe something Cisco or Ubiquiti.
2. Keep the Ultra Hub as the router, but disable DHCP and use a different DHCP server (managed switch?).

For both cases, Vodafone have told me the phone lines will have to go through the Ultra Hub. I'd rather have our own device that we can rely on, and whose settings can stay even when switching ISPs.

Does anyone have any experience with something like this and/or recommendations on what route to go with? Thanks