Abilis Systems SARL — F4:36:E1 (MA-L)

Abilis Systems SARL was a fabless semiconductor company based in Plan-les-Ouates, near Geneva, Switzerland, and holds a single IEEE MA-L block, F4:36:E1, registered to "Abilis Systems SARL" at 3, chemin Pré Fleuri, Plan-Les-Ouates, Geneva, CH 1228. The registered address matches the company's known Geneva-area operations, corroborating the assignment against a real, historically operating vendor rather than a bare shell registration. Founded in 2004 by Yves Mathys as a subsidiary of the Kudelski Group, Abilis built its business around the AS102 chip, a single-die DVB-T/DVB-H mobile digital TV receiver used in USB TV dongles such as the PCTV picoStick 74e and nBox — devices supported by a mainline Linux kernel driver (CONFIG_DVB_AS102) — plus RF modulators for set-top boxes. Abilis was acquired by Taiwan's ALi Corporation in October 2012 for roughly $25 million, at which point it had about 23 employees. The Ethernet/Wi-Fi MAC most plausibly traces to Abilis's TB101 "Broadcast to Broadband Bridge" (B3) family, a secure IP-networked media-gateway product line (partnered with MaxLinear on a satellite home-gateway reference platform) rather than to the USB-connected AS102 chip itself, since USB devices identify by VID/PID, not MAC address. As with all IEEE OUI assignments, no registration date is published; any third-party "date registered" is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact. The registry lists exactly one MA-L block for this vendor, with no MA-M or MA-S assignments found.

IEEE assignment

F4:36:E1 → Abilis Systems SARL (MA-L, 24-bit OUI) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Registry / block size

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

Registered address

3, chemin Pré Fleuri, Plan-Les-Ouates, Geneva, CH 1228 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Country

Switzerland (CH) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Company status

acquired/defunct — Abilis Systems SARL was acquired by ALi Corporation (Taiwan) on 25 Oct 2012; the original entity is no longer independently operating and abilis.com no longer resolves [Confirmed] — alitech.com press release

Company history

founded 2004 by Yves Mathys as a Kudelski Group subsidiary; ~23 employees at acquisition; acquired by ALi Corporation for ~$25M (Oct 2012) [Confirmed] — nagra.com, alitech.com, tracxn.com (multi-source corroboration)

Device / product context

fabless semiconductor vendor — AS102 single-die DVB-T/DVB-H mobile TV receiver chip (USB dongles: PCTV picoStick 74e, nBox; mainline Linux kernel driver CONFIG_DVB_AS102 — USB VID/PID, not MAC-bearing); TB101/B3 "Broadcast to Broadband Bridge" secure IP media-gateway family (MaxLinear-partnered satellite home-gateway reference platform) — the more plausible MAC-bearing product line; also RF modulators for set-top boxes

[Likely] — lwn.net, cateee.net, investors.maxlinear.com, yumpu.com

Registration date

Unknown — IEEE publishes NO OUI assignment/registration date [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (schema, header row); maclookup.app/macaddress/F436E1 (no date field shown either)

IANA reference

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

Security / abuse context

Unknown — no CVEs, default-credential reports, or vulnerability disclosures found for Abilis-branded hardware in this pass [Unknown] — web search (no findable signal)

Analyst note

given the 2012 acquisition and the fact that the company's website no longer resolves, an F4:36:E1 MAC most plausibly identifies legacy TB101/B3 gateway hardware manufactured before the acquisition, not the USB-connected AS102 TV-tuner chip (which doesn't use MAC addressing).