6WIND — 00:09:C0 (MA-L)

6WIND SA is a French networking-software company that holds a single IEEE MA-L block, 00:09:C0, registered to "6WIND" at 1, place Charles de Gaulle, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, 78180, France. The registered address matches 6WIND's known corporate headquarters west of Paris, which corroborates the assignment against a real, currently operating vendor rather than a bare shell registration. Unlike a hardware NIC manufacturer, 6WIND ships software: its product line includes the Virtual Service Router (VSR/vRouter), Turbo Router, Turbo IPsec, and the 6WINDGate packet-processing stack, all delivered as virtualized network functions that run on commodity servers for telcos, cloud service providers, and enterprises (5G, SD-WAN, IPsec gateways). Because the interfaces it addresses are virtual rather than physical, a 00:09:C0 MAC most plausibly appears on a software/virtual network interface produced by 6WIND's routing stack, not on a mass-produced physical Ethernet card. Two practical caveats apply to any OUI work here. First, IEEE publishes no assignment date for this or any OUI — the public registry columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, and Organization Address — so any "date registered" shown on third-party lookup tools is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact. Second, the registry lists exactly one MA-L block for 6WIND (no MA-M or MA-S assignments), which is consistent with a low-volume, software-focused vendor rather than a high-volume hardware maker.

IEEE assignment

00:09:C0 → 6WIND (MA-L, 24-bit OUI) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry (row: MA-L,0009C0,6WIND,...); corroborated via IEEE RA REST API (services13.ieee.org, registry=MA-L, text=0009C0)

Registry / block size

MA-L only; no MA-M (the IEEE MA-M registry) or MA-S (the IEEE MA-S registry) assignment exists for this vendor [Confirmed] — the cached registry snapshots{oui,mam,oui36}.csv

Registered address

1, place Charles de Gaulle, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, 78180, France (trailing whitespace in the raw registry row normalized) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry

Country

France (FR) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry

Company status

active — 6WIND SA, a currently operating French networking-software company; HQ (Montigny-le-Bretonneux) matches the registry address [Confirmed] — 6wind.com, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6WIND

Company history

founded 2000, described as a spin-off associated with the Thales Group [Likely] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6WIND (single-source biographical detail; core identity is Confirmed, founding-year/Thales attribution carried as Likely)

Device / product context

pure-software vendor — Virtual Service Router (VSR/vRouter), Turbo Router, Turbo IPsec, 6WINDGate; VNFs/software routers on COTS servers for telcos/CSPs/enterprises. MACs appear on virtual/software interfaces, not physical NICs

[Confirmed] — 6wind.com/vrouter-vsr-solutions, doc.6wind.com (per-interface MAC config in vRouter CLI)

Registration date

Unknown — IEEE publishes NO OUI assignment/registration date; do not record a third-party "date registered" as an IEEE fact [Confirmed] — IEEE RA REST API (no date field), standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv column set

IANA reference

not applicable — no IANA RFC reference exists for an IEEE OUI entry; left blank, not invented [Confirmed]

Security / abuse context

Unknown — targeted searches for 6WIND OUI/MAC + security/spoofing/abuse returned no findable signal; treat as Unknown (absence of findings ≠ clean) [Likely] — web search (no results)

Analyst note

a 00:09:C0 MAC most plausibly identifies a 6WIND software/virtual interface. Given the single MA-L block and virtual-interface nature, OUI alone should not be treated as proof of a specific physical device.