macadress

4G Systems GmbH & Co. KG

MA-L
MA-L: a full /24 OUI block, IEEE's largest, covering 16,777,216 addresses.
Prefix00:0E:56:00:00:00 /24
Vendor addressJarrestrasse 2-6 22303 Hamburg DE
Country🇩🇪  Germany
RegisteredDec 21, 2003
Block range00:0E:56:00:00:00– 00:0E:56:FF:FF:FF
Address capacity16,777,216
AdministrationUniversally administered: its prefix comes from a block registered through the IEEE Registration Authority
TransmissionUnicast: addressed to a single device
SourceIEEE Registration Authority

Address capacity is the size of this registered block, not a count of devices actually manufactured or online. Registration identifies the organization holding the block, not a specific device model or unit.

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Ownership timeline

  1. Dec 21, 2003 – Jul 19, 2008 4G Systems GmbH name changedaddress changed
  2. Jul 19, 2008 – present 4G Systems GmbH & Co. KG

Example addresses in this block

00:0E:56:00:00:00 00:0E:56:7F:FF:FF 00:0E:56:FF:FF:FF

Where this block sits

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The nearest registered blocks of the same size on either side of this one in IEEE's address space.

4G Systems GmbH & Co. KG holds 1 registered blocks in the IEEE registry, ranking #3,596 of 33,421 organizations by block count.