8D Technologies — 18:2B:05 (MA-L)

A MAC address beginning with 18:2B:05 belongs to 8D Technologies, a Montreal, Quebec company best known for building the technology platform behind BIXI Montreal's bicycle-share system and for automated, solar-powered parking payment terminals.

8D Technologies was founded in 1996 by Jean-Sébastien Bettez (CTO) and Isabelle Bettez (CEO). Its stack included a Java-based "Cloud9" operating environment and a Linux-based "ECO Unit" for wireless communications and payment processing, embedded in bike-share station kiosks/docks and parking terminals rather than general-purpose computers.

The BIXI platform later expanded beyond Montreal to power bike-share networks in Melbourne, London (Santander Cycles), Abu Dhabi, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., and Boston. In February 2017, 8D Technologies merged with bike-share operator Motivate LLC, ending its run as an independent company; Motivate was itself later acquired by Lyft.

The registry holds only this single MA-L block for 8D Technologies, with no matching MA-M or MA-S sub-allocations found. The company's historical domain, 8d.com, did not respond to a live fetch as of an August 2026 check, consistent with no independently maintained web presence since the 2017 merger.

Device class

Bike-share station kiosks/docks and automated parking payment terminals, not general-purpose computing hardware.

Also seen on

BIXI Montreal and later-licensed bike-share networks (Melbourne, London/Santander Cycles, Abu Dhabi, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Boston) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8D_Technologies).

Company status

Merged into Motivate LLC in February 2017; no longer an independent company (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170209005179/en/Bike-Share-Leaders-Motivate-8D-Technologies-Announce).

Registration scope

Single MA-L prefix (18:2B:05); no additional OUI/MA-M/MA-S blocks found under this name.

Third-party corroboration

Prefix independently resolves to "8D Technologies" via a third-party MAC-vendor API (https://api.macvendors.com/18:2B:05:00:00:00).

IEEE assignment

18:2B:05 → 8D Technologies, registered Montreal, Quebec, CA [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 182B05

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); single prefix found, no MA-M/MA-S blocks under this name [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 182B05

HQ / country

416, de Maisonneuve West, Montreal, Quebec CA H3A 1L2 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 182B05

Founded

1996 by Jean-Sébastien Bettez (CTO) and Isabelle Bettez (CEO) [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8D_Technologies

Company status

inactive as an independent entity — merged into Motivate LLC, February 2017 [Confirmed] — https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170209005179/en/Bike-Share-Leaders-Motivate-8D-Technologies-Announce, https://ca.linkedin.com/company/8d-technologies

Device types

bike-share station kiosks/docks, solar-powered automated parking payment terminals [Confirmed company history; Likely direct device-to-MAC correlation] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8D_Technologies

Notable products

BIXI Montreal bike-share technology platform (later Melbourne, London/Santander Cycles, Abu Dhabi, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Boston); "Cloud9" Java-based platform; Linux-based "ECO Unit" wireless comms [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8D_Technologies

Third-party MAC lookup corroboration

18:2B:05 resolves to "8D Technologies" [Confirmed] — https://api.macvendors.com/18:2B:05:00:00:00

Vendor site status

8d.com did not respond to a live fetch as of an August 2026 check [Confirmed]

Security context

no CVE or security advisory tied to 8D Technologies or its BIXI/parking-terminal product line found as of an August 2026 search [Likely] — sourced negative, no listing found

Registration date

Unknown — IEEE publishes no OUI assignment/registration date [Confirmed]