AAI Corporation — MAC prefix identifies an IEEE registry assignment; device type Unknown
Summary
- // what this is
- AAI is registered to MAC prefix
00:17:D9in the IEEE OUI database. When a device's MAC address begins with00:17:D9, that block was registered by AAI — the OUI identifies the maker of the network hardware, which is not always the brand on the device. - // analyst note
- A matching prefix identifies the registry assignment, not a particular device or observed deployment. RFC 7042 guidance and the supplied hexadecimal interpretation place the Group and Local bits of this exact prefix at 0; the remaining 24 bits allow 16,777,216 possible suffix values, not an actual device or shipment count.
About this vendor.
A MAC address beginning 00:17:D9 matches an IEEE MA-L assignment registered to AAI Corporation; the record does not identify a device type. The supplied IEEE entry lists one assignment, 00:17:D9, and gives no assignment date. The supplied evidence does not establish products, industry, website, or current organizational status for this legal entity.
This is a 24-bit prefix: compare the first three octets of the captured MAC address. Its first octet is 00, so the Group bit and Local bit are both zero. Those bits are fixed for this exact prefix; changing either creates a different prefix. The remaining 24 bits allow 16,777,216 possible suffix values. That is a mathematical address space, not a count of devices, shipments, or observed network activity.
A match indicates the registry assignment only; it cannot identify a particular device or establish its safety.
- Prefix match
- First 24 bits,
00:17:D9; Group bit 0 and Local bit 0 [Confirmed] — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7042.txt
- Company
- AAI Corporation [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Registry
- MA-L [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Country
- US [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Device types
- Unknown [Unknown] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Industry
- Unknown [Unknown] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Notable products
- Unknown [Unknown] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Website
- Unknown [Unknown] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
- Organization status
- Unknown [Unknown] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv