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Meraki CW9172H

High-performance wall-plate Wi-Fi 7

The Cisco® Wireless 9172 Series Wi-Fi 7 access points provide a seamless entry into next-generation wireless networking, delivering reliable, high-performance connectivity for environments like boutique hotels, student housing, retail stores, healthcare clinics, remote work hubs, and distributed business locations such as satellite offices, regional branches, and logistics hubs. With a compact, energy-efficient design and flexible management options, the 9172 Series helps ensure strong, future-ready connectivity without compromising affordability.

The Cisco Wireless 9172H is a tri-band, tri-radio, 2x2:2, Wi-Fi 7 wall plate access point with wired access ports, an integrated Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio and scanning radio.

With tri-radio functionality across 2.4-GHz, 5-GHz, and 6-GHz bands, the 9172H access point provides reliable, high-speed connectivity (up to 9000 Mbps frame rate) for spaces with low to moderate device density. Flexible deployment options—cloud, on-premises, or hybrid—allow seamless integration into existing networks.

SKU: CW9172H-RTG

Meraki CW9172H-RTG

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SKU: CW9172H-RTG

  • 2x2:2 UL/DL MU-MIMO 802.11be compatible
  • 9 Gbps tri-radio aggregate frame rate
  • 24x7 real-time WIDS/WIPS and spectrum analytics via dedicated Scanning radio
  • Integrated Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon and scanning radio
  • Single 2.5 Gbps mGig Ethernet port support
  • 3x 1 Gbps Wired LAN Port with 1 LAN port capable of PoE out.
  • 1 Pass through port
  • Full-time Wi-Fi location tracking via dedicated Scanning radio
  • Integrated enterprise security and guest access
  • Application-aware traffic shaping
  • Optimized for voice and video
  • Self-configuring, plug-and-play deployment
  • Enhanced transmit power and receive sensitivity

Tri–radio aggregate frame rate of up to 9 Gbps* Edit section

  • A 6 GHz 2x2:2, 5 GHz 2x2:2 and 2.4 GHz 2x2:2 radio offer a combined tri–radio aggregate frame rate of 9 Gbps*, with up to 5764 Mbps in 6 GHz band, 2882 Mbps in 5 GHz band and 344 Mbps in 2.4 GHz band. Technologies like transmit beamforming and enhanced receive sensitivity allow the CW9172H to support a higher client density than typical enterprise-class access points, resulting in better performance for more clients from each AP.

    * Refers to maximum over-the-air data frame rate capability of the radio chipset, and may exceed data rates allowed by IEEE 802.11be operation.

Multi User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) Edit section

  • With support for features of 802.11be, the CW9172H offers DL and UL MU-MIMO and OFDMA for more efficient transmission to multiple clients. Especially suited to environments with numerous mobile devices, MU-MIMO and OFDMA enable multiple clients to receive data simultaneously. This increases the total network performance and improves the end-user experience.

Automatic Cloud-Based RF Optimization Edit section

  • The RF data collected by the dedicated fourth radio is continuously fed back to the Meraki cloud. This data is then used to automatically tune the channel selection, transmit power, and client connection settings for optimal performance under even the most challenging RF conditions.

Dedicated Scanning Radio Delivers 24x7 Meraki Air Marshal and RF analytics Edit section

  • The CW9172H’s dedicated tri-band scanning and security radio continually assesses the environment, characterizing RF interference and containing (in 2.4GHz and 5GHz only, since 6GHz mandates PMF) wireless threats like rogue access points. There’s no need to choose between wireless security (Air Marshal), advanced RF analysis, and serving client data - a dedicated fourth radio means that all functions occur in real-time, without any impact on client traffic or AP throughput.

Voice and Video Optimizations Edit section

  • Industry-standard QoS features are built-in and easy to configure. Wireless Multimedia (WMM) access categories, 802.1p, and DSCP standards support, all ensure important applications get prioritized correctly, not only on the CW9172H but on other devices in the network. Unscheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery (U-APSD) and the Target Wait Time feature in 802.11ax clients ensure minimal battery drain on wireless VoIP phones.

Meraki Health Edit section

  • CW9172H will support all the latest and greatest analytics to provide machine learning-based anomaly detection, server root cause analysis, wireless client scoring based on performance and connectivity metrics and network benchmarking for networks of similar size and vertical. Along with these features, CW9172H will provide advanced location analytics via API and graphs in the dashboard to provide a clear picture of client density and their movement across the floor plan.

Multi Link Operation (MLO)

  • With support for features of 802.11be, the CW9172H can operate in multiple bands simultaneously to achieve higher throughput and improved SLA. This increases the total network performance and improves the end-user experience.

Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon and Scanning Radio Edit section

  • An integrated Bluetooth radio provides seamless deployment of BLE Beacon functionality and effortless visibility of Bluetooth devices. The CW9172H enables the next generation of location-aware applications while future-proofing deployments, ensuring it’s ready for any new customer engagement strategies.

Integrated Enterprise Security and Guest Access Edit section

  • The CW9172H features integrated, easy-to-use security technologies to provide secure connectivity for employees and guests alike. Advanced security features such as AES hardware-based encryption and Enterprise authentication with 802.1X and Active Directory integration provide wired-like security while still being easy to configure. CW9172H will also support 192-bit encryption along with WPA3 support for added security of the wireless network. One-click guest isolation provides secure, Internet-only access for visitors. PCI compliance reports check network settings against PCI requirements to simplify secure retail deployments.

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) & Mobile Device Management (MDM) Integration Edit section

  • Meraki Systems Manager natively integrates with the CW917H to offer automatic, context-aware security. Meraki Systems Manager’s self-service enrollment helps to rapidly deploy MDM without installing additional equipment, and then dynamically tie firewall and traffic shaping policies to client posture.

Application-Aware Traffic Shaping Edit section

  • The CW9172H includes an integrated layer 7 packet inspection, classification, and control engine, enabling the configuration of QoS policies based on traffic type, helping to prioritize mission-critical applications while setting limits on recreational traffic like peer-to-peer and video streaming. Policies can be implemented per network, per SSID, per user group, or per individual user for maximum flexibility and control.

Self-configuring, Self-Maintaining, Always Up-to-Date Edit section

  • When plugged in, the CW9172H automatically connects to the Meraki cloud, downloads its configuration, and joins the appropriate network. Administrators can schedule automatic firmware upgrades for their dashboard network seamlessly. This ensures the network is kept up-to-date with bug fixes, security updates, and new features.

Choice of Mode Edit section

  • Cisco Wireless 9172H Series Access Points can be managed either on-premises with Catalyst 9800 Wireless Lan Controllers (WLC) or cloud-managed through the Meraki dashboard. Customers have the flexibility to deploy these access points in one mode and migrate to the other mode in the future. 

Cisco Meraki Cloud Management Edit section

The Cisco® Wireless 9172 Series Wi-Fi 7 access points provide a seamless entry into next-generation wireless networking, delivering reliable, high-performance connectivity for environments like boutique hotels, student housing, retail stores, healthcare clinics, remote work hubs, and distributed business locations such as satellite offices, regional branches, and logistics hubs. With a compact, energy-efficient design and flexible management options, the 9172 Series helps ensure strong, future-ready connectivity without compromising affordability.

The Cisco Wireless 9172H is a tri-band, tri-radio, 2x2:2, Wi-Fi 7 wall plate access point with wired access ports, an integrated Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio and scanning radio.

With tri-radio functionality across 2.4-GHz, 5-GHz, and 6-GHz bands, the 9172H access point provides reliable, high-speed connectivity (up to 9000 Mbps frame rate) for spaces with low to moderate device density. Flexible deployment options—cloud, on-premises, or hybrid—allow seamless integration into existing networks.

Cisco Meraki Cloud Management Edit section
Pairing the Cisco Wireless 9172 Series Access Points with the Meraki cloud platform gives organizations a unified IT experience for network monitoring and management. The Meraki dashboard provides an intuitive and interactive web interface connecting your network to the industry’s leading cloud IT platform.

Through the dashboard, Meraki provides sophisticated and scalable tools to automate network optimization, deploy policy and segmentation configurations across thousands of sites and devices, and manage a full-stack network from SD-WAN to Access to IoT technologies. The platform supports over 3.5 million active networks around the world.

Working together, the Cisco Wireless 9172 Series and Cisco Meraki offer such features as:

Cisco Spaces

Cisco Identity Services Engine

Wireless AIOps innovations

Meraki Vision, smart cameras, and sensors for network closet monitoring

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