End of Life/End of Support Official List

[AnswerFinder1]

Hello All, I am working on budget projections for the next couple of years and trying to include a Meraki access point upgrade with usable end of support information included.

Background info about this is, we have a network comprised of MR46 Meraki access points.  While researching end of last year i included the lifecycle date found in the lifecycle document provided by Meraki as well as several AI answers from various places to get started on including it in our budget cycle. 

Everything I acquired then showed the following:'

• End-of-Support (EOST) Date: July 21, 2026.
• End-of-Sale (EOS) Date: Typically, this is 5 years before the support date, meaning the device is currently in its final years of lifecycle management.

I also included the link to the Meraki lifecycle documentation here:

https://documentation.meraki.com/Platform_Management/Product_Information/End-of-Life_Notices/Meraki_... 

Last edit to this documentation was recently 10FEB26.  However, I do not see the MR46 listed there now.  

I need an official answer to this question, is the MR46 officially end of support on July 21, 2026? 

Everything says it is except the official list now for some reason which was pointed out to me by our RightSys network engineer when he too questioned it.  

Thank you for helping!

"D"

[cmr]

The MR46 does not have an end of sale, yet alone an end of support date yet.

The MR56 is from the same family and that went end of sale about 6 months ago with 4.5 years more support.

The official page is here: Meraki End-of-Life (EOL) Products and Dates - Cisco Meraki Documentation

The MR46 will have at least 5 years more support, maybe more.

[cmr]

Do not use AI to check end of life/support dates, it pretty much always gets it wrong as it incorrectly summarises the information.  I have personally seen this many times over the last year where I have thought 'oh no' and then realised that once I looked further it was a load of carp...

[alemabrahao]

That's what it looks like, right?

[alemabrahao]

Are you sure it was the MR46?

I don't recall seeing its end-of-service-life announced, and no official documentation confirms that.

[cmr]

There are several third party sites that appear high up (at least in my search results) that have the date @AnswerFinder1 mentioned.  They are clearly incorrect, but I could not see a way to report them as such.

[mlefebvre1]

What you likely saw was a reference to the MR45, not the 46. 

Product Announcement End-of-Sale Date End-of-Support Date

MR45-HW

Jan 27, 2021

Jul 21, 2021

Jul 21, 2026

[BlakeRichardson]

I'd say this is it. 

[Ryan_Miles · Accepted solution]

FYI this is the same issue from Dec 2025 in which AI is giving bad info on end of sale/support dates.

https://community.meraki.com/t5/Wireless/Meraki-MR36-End-of-Life-July-21-2026/m-p/288787

As mentioned here the source of truth is this and only this.

https://documentation.meraki.com/Platform_Management/Product_Information/End-of-Life_Notices/Meraki_... 

[AnswerFinder1]

Thank you for this, I will submit it and work through what we have accumulated for our budget submittal.

Good information from all, thanks for posting so quickly.

It was the MR46 but only AI responses across several platforms list is as end of support July 21 2026

The Google platform uses this site for reference.  When you ask it about the MR46 AI responds with this:

https://invgate.com/itdb/meraki-mr46 and lists the Model:  MR46-HW as end of support on the date above.

Having both versions of the end-of-life notices helps a lot, thank you for that Ryan.  Back to it, thanks all!  "D"

[BlakeRichardson]

Hopefully this means you don't have to replace your access points as early as you thought which will keep your finance manager happy. 

[AnswerFinder1]

It does! and they are all very happy and sharing bad AI stories.  We are already in a budget crunch, small community college environment.  This info freed up a lot that they did not want to spend at this time.

I am a Sr. Network and Telecommunications/CISO and have already dealt with a lot of AI issues.  While everyone was happily endorsing every flavor of AI it perforated our security posture and we are now having meetings at the federal level to sort through new controls for the state and agency subs.  

This is a good example of decisions made on bad information sourced from AI.  Some of the stories going around now are pretty crazy but of similar nature to what we have discussed here.

Thanks for the backup info from everyone, I gave it all to them and it's what mattered today for sure.  "D"