3M Company — 3 OUI prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address starting with 08:00:21 belongs to 3M Company's Telecom Division (Austin, TX), and is typically seen on telecom demarcation-point hardware such as network interface device (NID) enclosures.

3M holds three separate MA-L (24-bit OUI) registrations rather than one: 08:00:21 under "3M COMPANY" (Telecom Division, Austin, TX, US), 00:15:C2 under "3M Germany" (Neuss, DE), and 00:06:49 under "3M Deutschland GmbH" (Neuss, DE). All three are individually assigned, single-registrant blocks — not sub-allocations of a shared IEEE base.

The multiple registrations, plus a concrete 3M-branded product match, point to genuine company substance rather than a bare shell registration. A "3M MODEL 3M-0807-01 NETWORK INTERFACE DEVICE (NID) COMMUNICATION ENCLOSURE" — telecom demarcation-point hardware consistent with the 08:00:21 registrant's "Telecom Division" name — was found listed on a retail marketplace.

3M's own corporate history corroborates the Austin, TX address: the company built an "Austin Center" in the 1980s to co-locate with Texas telecom and high-tech firms. Current 3m.com pages (found via search-result titles; a direct fetch of the communications-infrastructure page timed out) list active "Communications Infrastructure," "Communications," and "Access Network" product lines, so this corroboration is Likely rather than fully Confirmed.

No CVE, malware, or vulnerability association was found for 3M network/telecom devices, or for MAC prefix 08:00:21 specifically, as of an August 2026 web search. A direct NVD search-results fetch did not render (JavaScript-driven page), so this covers general web search coverage rather than a confirmed empty NVD query.

No registration date exists for any of these three OUIs in the source registries or in a third-party aggregator checked (cleancss.com) — no date should be read into or written for this entry.

Device class

Telecom demarcation-point / network interface device (NID) hardware [Likely] — product listing for 3M-0807-01 NID enclosure

Registrant (08:00:21)

3M COMPANY, Telecom Division, Austin, TX, US 78726-9000 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Registrant (00:15:C2)

3M Germany, Carl Schurz Str. 1, Neuss, NRW (country field printed "US" in the source row — an apparent registry data artifact, not evidence of a US address) [Confirmed as printed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Also seen on

No independent MAC-prefix fingerprinting (Wireshark OUI threads, IoT scan writeups) was found for 08:00:21 in this search [Unknown]

Security context

No CVE/malware association found as of an August 2026 web search [Likely — general search coverage, NVD query itself did not render]

IEEE assignment (08

00:21): 3M COMPANY, Telecom Division, Austin, TX, US 78726-9000 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry assignment 080021

IEEE assignment (00

15:C2): 3M Germany, Carl Schurz Str. 1, Neuss, NRW, printed country "US", 41453 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry assignment 0015C2

IEEE assignment (00

06:49): 3M Deutschland GmbH, Carl-Schurz-Str. 1, Neuss, DE D-41453 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry assignment 000649

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) x3; no MA-M or MA-S (36-bit) entries found for any 3M entity [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry (no matching rows)

Company status

active (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., NYSE: MMM) [Confirmed] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M

Device types

telecom demarcation-point hardware / network interface device (NID) enclosures [Likely] — 3M-0807-01 product listing

Notable products

3M-0807-01 Network Interface Device (NID) Communication Enclosure [Likely] — retail marketplace listing (amazon.com)

Company substance

identifiable multinational company with documented product/device context and three separate OUI assignments — not a bare single-OUI shell registration [Likely] — company-histories.com (3M Austin Center history), product listing, 3m.com search results

Security association

no CVE/malware association found as of an August 2026 web search [Likely] — general web search; NVD search page did not render for direct confirmation

Date registered

Unknown — no date column exists in the source registries, and no date field was shown by the third-party aggregator checked [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, cleancss.com/mac-lookup/08-00-21

Shared-base caveat

not applicable — none of these three OUIs are large IEEE-held shared bases; each is a normal single-registrant MA-L assignment [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry