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Is your Meraki kit end of life?
Enter a model and get its end-of-sale and end-of-support dates from Cisco Meraki's published notices, plus your upgrade options: like-for-like Meraki, or a switch to licence-free UniFi.
Meraki end-of-life checker
Enter a Cisco Meraki model (for example MR33, MS220-8P or MX64) to see its end-of-life status, dates and upgrade options.
Dates from Cisco Meraki's published end-of-life notices as of 15 July 2026. Always confirm against the official Meraki EOL list. Next2IT is independent of both Cisco Meraki and Ubiquiti; we design and support both platforms. Nothing you type here leaves your browser.
Why end-of-life dates matter
- Security updates stop. After end of support, firmware and vulnerability fixes end. Every new CVE from that day on stays unpatched on your network.
- Compliance fails. Cyber Essentials requires unsupported kit to be removed or isolated, and insurers increasingly ask the same question.
- Meraki licensing still applies. A Meraki device needs an active licence to function at all, so running EOL hardware doesn't even save money.
- Forced upgrades cost more. Planned refreshes get quotes, lead time and staged rollouts. Emergency replacements after a failure get whatever's in stock.
Meraki or UniFi?
Two good answers. One honest comparison.
We design, deploy and support both platforms, so the recommendation you get is based on your estate and budget, not our vendor margin.
Stay with Meraki
One dashboard, contracted vendor support and mature SD-WAN. The trade-off is per-device licensing for the life of the estate, and hardware that stops working if the licence lapses. We'll spec the current replacement models and handle the refresh end to end as part of our network services.
Switch to UniFi
No mandatory per-device licences, excellent Wi-Fi 6/7 access points, capable switching and gateways, and a controller you own. Lifetime cost is typically a fraction of a licensed estate, which is why EOL time is when most businesses make the jump. We migrate site-by-site with no downtime and keep it monitored 24×7 by our network operations centre.
Questions
About this tool
Straight from Cisco Meraki's published end-of-life notices and their official EOL products list. We bake the dates into this tool when we refresh it rather than fetching live, and we link the official list under every result so you can double-check. If a model isn't in our dataset it usually means Meraki hasn't announced dates for it.
End of sale is when Meraki stops selling the product; it usually keeps working and receiving updates for years afterwards. End of support is the one that matters for security: after that date there are no more firmware releases, security patches or TAC support. Running kit past end of support means every newly discovered vulnerability stays open.
It will keep passing traffic, but it no longer receives security fixes, which makes it a growing risk on your network edge and a straight failure for Cyber Essentials, which requires unsupported devices to be removed or segregated. Meraki devices also still need an active licence to operate regardless of age. Planning the replacement on your timetable is far cheaper than doing it after an incident.
Honestly, it depends. Staying with Meraki keeps a familiar dashboard, contracted support and strong SD-WAN, at the cost of per-device licensing forever. UniFi has no mandatory per-device licences, so lifetime cost is dramatically lower, and for most day-to-day wireless, switching and routing it's excellent. We deploy and support both, so we'll give you a straight comparison for your estate rather than a sales pitch for either.
A survey of what you have and how it's configured, a like-for-like design on the UniFi side, then a staged swap: controller stood up first, switches and access points replaced site by site, usually out of hours so nobody notices. SSIDs, VLANs and firewall rules are recreated and tested as we go. Most single sites are done in a day or two of engineering time.
Yes. We handle the audit, the recommendation, procurement, configuration, installation and the ongoing 24×7 monitoring and support afterwards, whether you stay with Meraki or move to UniFi. If you'd rather not think about network hardware ever again, that's rather the point of us.
EOL kit on your network?
We'll audit what's ageing out, price both upgrade paths honestly, and deliver the one you choose, with 24×7 support afterwards.