The new access point is available now.

Meraki's market tends to be quite different: Its innovative, low-cost wireless access points and routers are aimed at schools, hotels, apartment blocks, municipal hot zones and the like. Meraki wireless products are intended to plug into an available broadband service, and then share that service with users via a . The company-run data center hosts such functions as network management, security configurations, billing and customer service.

The new outdoor MR58 supports three 802.11n radios, one of the few triple-radio 11n products currently on the market, and the first 11n product from Meraki. Yet the list price is $1,500, which Meraki says is well below comparable outdoor 11abg offerings from rivals.

All three radios can run at the same time, and the MR58 will still work with an 802.3af PoE infrastructure.

The software load includes Meraki's wireless mesh protocol, running with all three radios, the fruit of Meraki's roots in the MIT project. Meraki has a technique for creating full-duplex connections between its radios, sidestepping the performance degradation that can occur when Wi-Fi traffic hops through multiple radio nodes. The MR58 is intended to be mounted on roofs, with one or more of them plugged into a broadband Internet connection, distributing the high-bandwidth radio signals over several kilometers. The signals are then picked up by window- or indoor-mounted Meraki access points in residences or offices.