Happy Monday everyone! You may have heard about our announcement of MR45 and MR55, our new high-density Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) compatible devices. These APs, combined with the new aggregation and access switches we launched over the last several months help lay the foundation for seamless, high-efficiency network performance even in dense wireless environments.
While the Wi-Fi 6/802.11ax amendment has a long list of new features, at its core, the purpose of Wi-Fi 6 is to deliver consistent performance and high throughput, in the real world. With features like OFDMA, MU-MIMO (DL & UL), 1024 QAM, BSS Color, Wi-Fi 6 will be able to deal with congested wireless areas much more elegantly.
Some of the capabilities of the new Meraki MR models:
MR55
- 8x8 with MU-MIMO and OFDMA and 1G/2.5G/5G Ethernet
- 5.9 Gbps aggregate frame rate (136% increase over MR53)
- Additional MCS Rates 10 & 11
- Sleek “vessel” design
- PoE requires 802.3at compliance
- All the other Meraki MR benefits (Meraki dashboard, APIs, Wireless Health, quad-radio architecture, Umbrella integration, etc.)
MR45
- 4x4 with MU-MIMO and OFDMA and 1G/2.5G/5G Ethernet
- 3.5 Gbps aggregate frame rate (40% increase over MR53)
- Additional MCS Rates 10 & 11
- Sleek “vessel” design
- PoE requires 802.3at compliance
- All the other Meraki MR benefits (Meraki dashboard, APIs, Wireless Health, quad-radio architecture, Umbrella integration, etc.)
We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the new products and how you’re thinking about your Wi-Fi 6 deployments. Hit the “Reply” button below and tell us!
Considering that Wi-Fi 6 APs can handle higher client counts, I was curious to take a look at the average daily client count at Meraki HQ in San Francisco. The number of average daily clients has increased steadily from about <1,000 to now being over 1,200 pretty consistently. A solid 30% increase over the last 12 months. Good luck to our IT team!
@davidvan Thanks!
Just to confirm though, these look like they are '802.11ax compatible' since they don't support UL-OFDMA, correct?
Do you know when you guys will get 802.11ax certified access points?
@GIdenJoe wrote:@NolanHerringI just checked the Cisco C9100 AP's and they also only support downlink OFDMA.
So it could be that the standard is not 100% set on doing scheduled vs unscheduled UL-OFDMA transmissions or like the Meraki document states that in most use-cases, especially in high density the traffic is by far the biggest in the downstream direction.
I saw that too, they only have one model that is 'certified' and can perform DL-OFDMA, the 9120 model.
