macadress

Sony Corporation

MA-L
MA-L: a full /24 OUI block, IEEE's largest, covering 16,777,216 addresses.
Prefix08:00:46:00:00:00 /24
Vendor addressGotenyama Tec, 5-1-2 Kitashinagawa Tokyo JP 141-0001
Country🇯🇵  Japan
RegisteredSep 25, 1998
Block range08:00:46:00:00:00– 08:00:46: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. Sep 25, 1998 – Jun 23, 2009 SONY CORPORATION LTD. name changedaddress changed
  2. Jun 23, 2009 – present Sony Corporation

Example addresses in this block

08:00:46:00:00:00 08:00:46:7F:FF:FF 08:00:46:FF:FF:FF

Where this block sits

Previous 08:00:45:00:00:00 /24 CONCURRENT COMPUTER CORP. Next 08:00:47:00:00:00 /24 SEQUENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS INC.

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

Sony Corporation holds 86 registered blocks in the IEEE registry, ranking #41 of 33,427 organizations by block count.

Other blocks registered to Sony Corporation

00:01:4A:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:0A:D9:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:0E:07:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:0F:DE:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:12:EE:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:13:A9:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:16:20:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:16:B8:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:18:13:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:19:63:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:1A:75:00:00:00 /24 MA-L 00:1A:80:00:00:00 /24 MA-L