Access Devices Limited — 00:08:07 (MA-L)

The OUI prefix 00:08:07 is registered with the IEEE to Access Devices Limited, a UK company at the registry address "Sixth Floor, 58 Oxbridge Road, GB." The assignment is an MA-L block (a full 24-bit OUI, ~16.7 million addresses). Access Devices was a short-lived consumer set-top-box maker, not a networking-infrastructure vendor: a UK subsidiary in the orbit of US SEC-registered Access Devices Inc. (CIK 0001340980), it designed DVB-T digital-television receivers sold under the "Freeway" brand and IPTV devices under the "TVNow" brand during 2003–2006. The UK legal entity (Companies House no. 04801471, incorporated June 2003) went into administration in September 2006 and was formally dissolved on 18 April 2016, so no firmware support has existed for over a decade. Any surviving 00:08:07-prefixed device is therefore best treated as an unmanaged legacy endpoint: class-level risks documented for early DVB-T/IPTV set-top boxes (open telnet, unencrypted legacy APIs, unpatched Linux kernels, botnet recruitment) apply, though no vendor-specific CVEs are attributed to Access Devices itself. One data-quality trap to flag: third-party lookup sites show an "Initial registration: 24 October 2001" for 00:08:07 — IEEE publishes no OUI registration dates, so that value is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact, and must not be surfaced as one.

IEEE assignment

00:08:07 → Access Devices Limited [Confirmed] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry (line 13527); corroborated maclookup.app (https://maclookup.app/search/result?mac=00%3A08%3A07&tab=vendorInfo)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI; ~16.7M addresses) [Confirmed] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry; maclookup.app

Registered address / country

Sixth Floor, 58 Oxbridge Road, GB (United Kingdom) [Confirmed] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry; maclookup.app

Allocated date

Unknown — IEEE publishes NO registration/assignment date for OUI entries (the IEEE MA-L registry columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address). The "24 Oct 2001" shown on third-party lookup sites is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact.

[Unknown] — IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry structure

Company / parent

Access Devices Limited, UK (Companies House no. 04801471, formerly Seckloe 166 Limited, incorporated June 2003); subsidiary in the orbit of US-listed Access Devices Inc. (SEC CIK 0001340980), which acquired 70% of Access Devices Digital Ltd. on 11 Feb 2005 [Confirmed] — Companies House (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04801471); SEC S-1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001340980/000114420405034436/v026698_s1.htm)

Company status

dissolved 18 April 2016; into administration September 2006; ~55 staff at peak [Confirmed] — Companies House (company/04801471); radiomuseum.org (https://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=17208)

Device types

DVB-T digital-TV set-top boxes ("Freeway" brand, e.g. FreeWay TDT01, 2005), IPTV set-top boxes ("TVNow" brand), integrated DVB+IPTV hybrid devices; Ethernet-equipped consumer/prosumer TV-reception devices, not general networking gear [Confirmed] — radiomuseum.org; SEC S-1 (v026698_s1.htm)

Manufacturing supplier

Flextronics International Kft (Hungary) [Likely] — radiomuseum.org (single corroborating source)

Website

Unknown — no active or archived vendor site located; company in administration since 2006, dissolved 2016 [Unknown]

Security context

no vendor-specific CVEs or threat-actor activity attributed to Access Devices devices; class-level legacy DVB-T/IPTV set-top-box risks (open telnet, unencrypted legacy APIs, unpatched kernels, botnet recruitment) apply; no firmware support since 2006 — treat surviving 00:08:07 endpoints as unmanaged legacy [Likely] — helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2012/07/10/security-vulnerabilities-of-dvb-chipsets/); securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-expose-popular-dvb-t2-set-top-boxes-botnets-researchers/)

Analyst note

A 00:08:07 globally-administered address identifies genuine Access Devices hardware, but the population is tiny and obsolete; in modern inventories this prefix most plausibly flags a legacy/abandoned device worth investigating, not active vendor hardware.