3UP Systems — 00:08:DE (MA-L)

A MAC address starting with 00:08:DE belongs to 3UP Systems, a company that made network-integrated blade server hardware in the early-to-mid 2000s. The prefix appears on enterprise blade-server chassis and blade modules — 3UP's products combined server blades with integrated switching, traffic control, diskless boot, firewall, and load-balancing features, an early take on what would later be called converged, SDN-style provisioning in a blade form factor.

IEEE's public OUI registry lists this MA-L assignment, 00:08:DE, as registered to "3UP Systems" at 6 Results Way, Cupertino, CA 95014. That address matches the company headquarters reported by several independent company-profile aggregators, which corroborates the identity. Those same aggregators place 3UP Systems' founding in 2001, with an R&D facility in Shanghai, China and a sales office in Fairfax, Virginia.

3UP Systems appears to be defunct. Several aggregator sources state its technology was acquired by Inventec, though no primary company source — a working website or press release — could be located to confirm this directly. This is a single-OUI registration: no additional MA-M or MA-S assignments for the organization were found in the OUI registries checked, and no CVE, security advisory, or malware association names the company as of an August 2026 search.

A third-party MAC-lookup site lists this prefix as "initially registered" in June 2002, but IEEE's own OUI data publishes no assignment date for any prefix — any such date is a database artifact from the third-party tool, not an IEEE fact, and is not repeated here as one.

Prefix

00:08:DE (MA-L, single assignment)

Founded

2001, per multiple company-profile aggregators (not IEEE-sourced)

Operating status

Likely defunct; technology reportedly acquired by Inventec, unconfirmed by a primary source

Additional assignments

None found for this organization in the OUI, MAM, or OUI-36 registries checked

IEEE assignment

00:08:DE → 3UP Systems, registered Cupertino, CA, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0008DE

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); single assignment — no additional OUI/MA-M/MA-S blocks found for this organization [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry (all checked, no additional matches)

HQ / country

6 Results Way, Cupertino, CA 95014, US (registry address) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0008DE; address matches company-profile HQ [Likely] — https://www.zoominfo.com/c/3up-systems/64929836

Company status

Likely defunct; technology reportedly acquired by Inventec, not confirmed via a primary/company-issued source [Likely] — https://www.ithistory.org/db/companies/3up-systems

Device types

blade server chassis and blade modules with integrated switching, traffic control, diskless boot, firewall, and load balancing [Likely] — https://www.ithistory.org/db/companies/3up-systems

Notable products

"Upsite Blade System Management Suite" (product name appears in a Network Computing headline; article body no longer retrievable — the URL now redirects to an unrelated page) [Likely] — https://www.networkcomputing.com/network-management/3up-systems-upsite-blade-system-management-suite

Founded

2001, per company-profile aggregators (ZoomInfo, PitchBook, Crunchbase, IT History Society) that independently agree on year and HQ [Likely] — https://www.zoominfo.com/c/3up-systems/64929836, https://www.ithistory.org/db/companies/3up-systems

Verified sample prefix

00:08:DE (sole assignment for this organization) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0008DE

Security / malware association

none found as of an August 2026 search of general web and CVE-oriented queries [Confirmed absence]

Third-party date caveat

a third-party lookup tool shows "initially registered" June 2002 for this prefix; IEEE publishes no assignment date, so this is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact [Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/macaddress/0008de

Related vendors

Inventec (reported acquirer of 3UP Systems' technology; unconfirmed by a primary source) [Likely] — https://www.ithistory.org/db/companies/3up-systems

Analyst note

a MAC starting 00:08:DE identifies enterprise blade-server hardware from 3UP Systems (Cupertino, founded 2001, likely defunct); the "firewall" and "load balancing" language in product descriptions refers to features of the blade product itself, not a security finding — no CVE or malware association is on record for the company.