MAC address vendor

Actuality Systems, Inc. — device identification unknown

Primary prefix
00:11:96
Block
MA-L

Summary

// what this is
Actuality Systems is registered to MAC prefix 00:11:96 in the IEEE OUI database. When a device's MAC address begins with 00:11:96, that block was registered by Actuality Systems — the OUI identifies the maker of the network hardware, which is not always the brand on the device.
[ 01 ] — Context

About this vendor.

Updated  ·  Confidence: Medium  ·  3 sources  ·  How this page is checked

A MAC address beginning 00:11:96 matches an IEEE MA-L assignment to Actuality Systems, Inc.; it does not identify a particular device or prove that the company currently operates it. The available evidence does not map this prefix to a device category or product. The IEEE record lists one 24-bit prefix assignment, with 24 bits remaining for the address suffix.

The SBIR award record describes the company’s work on autostereoscopic displays and Spatial 3-D visualization systems. That company-level product context does not establish that any of those products used 00:11:96. Under RFC 7042, the Group and Local bits in the first octet have MAC-address significance. For this exact prefix, both are zero; changing either bit produces a different prefix. The 16,777,216 possible suffix values are address possibilities, not a count of devices or shipments.

MAC prefix
00:11:96 is assigned to Actuality Systems, Inc. in the MA-L registry.
Device identification
Unknown; the evidence does not map a device category to this exact prefix.
Address interpretation
The prefix fixes 24 bits and leaves 24 suffix bits, or 16,777,216 possible suffix values. This is not a device or shipment count.
Group and Local bits
Both bits are zero in the first octet 00; changing either yields a different prefix.
Company
Actuality Systems, Inc. [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
Registry
MA-L [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
Prefix
00:11:96 [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
Total prefix count
1 [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
Device types
Unknown [Unknown] — https://www.sbir.gov/awards/8214
Industry
Spatial 3-D visualization systems [Confirmed] — https://www.sbir.gov/awards/8214
Notable products
Unknown. A 2004 SBIR Phase I award describes proposed research into a highly multi-perspective autostereoscopic display for interactive-rate holographic video; prototype construction was anticipated in Phase II. This does not establish product availability.
[Historical research concept] — https://www.sbir.gov/awards/8214
Assignment dates
Assignment dates are unavailable in these IEEE CSV records. [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv
[ 02 ] — OUI prefixes

Assignments by IEEE.

1
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  1. 00:11:96MA-L
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