Cisco has announced the End of Life for MR36, MR36H, MR44, MR46 and MR46E, with all models being replaced by the new Wi-Fi 7 APs which can now be monitored and configured from the Meraki Dashboard. The MR36, MR36H, MR44, MR46 and MR46E End-of-Sales Date: 31st December 2026. End of Sale does not mean End of Support. End of Support date will be 31st December 2031.

What is Wi-Fi 7?

The IEEE developed the 802.11be amendment (a.k.a “Extremely High Throughput”) to the 802.11 standard, which the Wi-Fi Alliance adopted (draft v3.0), as the basis for Wi-Fi 7 certification.  The Wi-Fi 7 alliance planned to adopt a subset of features from the 802.11be amendment as part of their Release 1 certification, which was made available in January 2024.  A second release with support for an incremental set of features is planned for Release 2 certification, slated for December 2025.

Wi-Fi 7 promises lots of use cases centered around next-gen applications like high definition and ultra-high definition video streaming which needs high bandwidth, AR, VR and XR applications that are emerging in the Enterprise segment, Industrial Internet of Things, Remote surgery in health care and so on – which are very latency sensitive. 

These are close equivalent replacements

• MR36-HW -> CW9172I-RTG
• MR36H-HW -> CW9172H-RTG
• MR44-HW -> CW9174I-RTG
• MR46-HW -> CW9176I-RTG
• MR46E-HW -> CW9174E-RTG

Please see link below for more info on Wi-Fi 7 APs:

Wi-Fi 7 Page