Accedian Networks — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address beginning 00:15:AD or 00:24:FD belongs to Accedian Networks, a Montreal-area telecom equipment maker, and typically identifies carrier-grade Ethernet demarcation hardware rather than a consumer device. Both prefixes are IEEE MA-L (24-bit OUI) blocks, each covering roughly 16.7 million addresses.

Accedian was founded in 2004 in Montreal by Patrick Ostiguy and four partners, building network interface devices that link cell towers to central offices. The company holds two OUI registrations under slightly different legal-name variants: 00:15:AD to "Accedian Networks" (4878 Levy, suite 202, St-Laurent, Quebec) and a later block, 00:24:FD, to "Accedian Networks Inc" (2351 Alfred Nobel Blvd, Saint-Laurent, QC) — consistent with a company that grew and re-registered over time.

These prefixes map to Accedian's own-brand product line: EtherNID and MetroNID (including MetroNID TE) demarcation devices used for Ethernet service delivery, SLA measurement, and timing at telecom backhaul and enterprise WAN edges, plus Accedian's Skylight software for network and application performance assurance. These are carrier/enterprise network-edge instruments, not IoT or home-network gear.

Accedian took $100M in funding from Bridge Growth Partners in 2017, acquired Performance Vision (Paris) in 2018, and was itself acquired by Cisco Systems (announced June 2023, closed September 2023); its technology now lives inside Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance / ThousandEyes. IEEE's OUI registry publishes no assignment dates — third-party "registered" dates seen on lookup tools (2005, 2009) are database artifacts, not IEEE facts.

IEEE assignment

00:15:AD → Accedian Networks, 4878 Levy, suite 202, St-Laurent, Quebec, CA H9P 2V4; 00:24:FD → Accedian Networks Inc, 2351 Alfred Nobel Blvd, Saint-Laurent, QC, CA H4S 2A9 [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (lines 12988, 36227)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) x2; no per-vendor total prefix count published beyond these two [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

HQ / country

Saint-Laurent / St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry addresses

Company status

Acquired by Cisco Systems; no longer an independent entity (announced June 2023, closed September 2023) [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accedian, https://www.networkworld.com/article/972364/cisco-is-buying-network-monitoring-analysis-firm-accedian-networks.html

Device types

Ethernet network interface / demarcation devices (EtherNID, MetroNID, MetroNID TE); Skylight performance-assurance software [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accedian, https://www.launch3telecom.com/accedian/metronid.html

Notable products

EtherNID, MetroNID / MetroNID TE, Skylight

Founding

Founded 2004 in Montreal by Patrick Ostiguy and four partners; first product was a backhaul NID linking cell towers to central offices [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accedian

Funding / M&A

$100M from Bridge Growth Partners (2017); acquired Performance Vision, Paris (2018); acquired by Cisco (announced June 2023, closed September 2023) [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accedian, https://www.networkworld.com/article/972364/cisco-is-buying-network-monitoring-analysis-firm-accedian-networks.html

Security note

No CVEs specific to EtherNID/MetroNID/Skylight found in a light NVD/vendor-doc search pass; vendor docs confirm devices force a mandatory default-password change on first login

[Likely — light pass, not exhaustive] — https://docs.accedian.io/docs/changing-default-password-for-devices, https://nvd.nist.gov/

Date caveat

IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry publishes no assignment/registration date field; maclookup.app's "initial registration" dates (26 Aug 2005 for 00:15:AD; 19 Jan 2009 for 00:24:FD) are third-party database artifacts, not IEEE facts, and must not be attributed to IEEE

[Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/macaddress/0015ad, https://maclookup.app/macaddress/0024fd

Analyst note

Two MA-L blocks under variant legal names, both in the Montreal area, a well-documented carrier-hardware product line, and a Cisco acquisition together clear the abstain-on-shells bar for verifiable company substance beyond the bare IEEE registration.