Advanced Switching Communications, Inc. — 1 prefix (MA-L)

Advanced Switching Communications, Inc. holds a single IEEE MA-L block, 00:90:26, registered to the company at 8330 Boone Boulevard, 5th Fl., Vienna, VA 22182, US. Unlike many single-OUI registrants that turn out to be shell filings, this one is backed by verifiable corporate substance: the company was founded in September 1997 and filed SEC Form S-1 and S-1/A paperwork (CIK 1095583, FY2000) for a proposed IPO, describing itself as a provider of "next-generation broadband access platforms" for telecom carriers, with named customers including UUNet, Intermedia Communications, and Broadview Networks. Archived third-party datasheet mirrors reference specific shipped products — the A4000 ("Affordable PoPs") and the A1240, a 24-port T1/E1 access platform for ATM, Frame Relay, and TDM traffic — consistent with the S-1's business description. The company did not survive the dot-com bust: an SEC 8-K reports stockholders approved a plan of liquidation around April 12, 2002, with a certificate of dissolution intended around May 10, 2002. No second OUI block was found under this registrant name, and IEEE's public registry publishes no assignment date for 00:90:26, so none is recorded here.

IEEE assignment

00:90:26 → ADVANCED SWITCHING COMMUNICATIONS, INC. [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); single prefix only — no matching MA-M (the IEEE MA-M registry) or MA-S (the IEEE MA-S registry) entries for this org [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry; the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry (no match)

HQ / registered address

8330 Boone Boulevard, 5th Fl., Vienna, VA 22182, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Company status

dissolved — SEC 8-K reports stockholders approved a plan of liquidation on/around April 12, 2002, certificate of dissolution intended ~May 10, 2002 [Likely] — http://pdf.secdatabase.com/1683/0000898318-02-000044.pdf (relayed via search snippet; direct PDF fetch was blocked in this pass)

Business / IPO filing

filed SEC Form S-1 and S-1/A (CIK 1095583, FY2000) for a proposed IPO; described itself as a provider of broadband access platforms; named customers UUNet, Intermedia Communications, Broadview Networks [Confirmed] — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001095583/000095013300002777/s-1.txt, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001095583/000095013300003517/s-1a.txt

Device types / notable products

broadband/telecom access-network equipment — A4000 broadband access platform, A1240 24-port T1/E1 access platform for ATM/Frame Relay/TDM [Likely] — https://theipv6company.com/html/Productos/ASC/DataSheets/a4000.pdf, https://theipv6company.com/html/Productos/ASC/DataSheets/a1240.pdf (datasheet PDFs were not machine-extractable during this pass; corroborated by filenames plus the SEC S-1 business description)

Founding

founded September 1997 (by Asghar Mostafa, Ron Westernik, Jim Loehndorf) [Likely] — https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/advanced-switching-communications

Date registered (OUI)

Unknown — IEEE does not publish OUI/MA-L assignment dates; none present in the cached registry row; no date attributed to IEEE [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Security / CVE history

none found in this research pass; treated as Unknown/no findings, not as confirmed-clean (company dissolved 2002, predating the CVE-tracking era for most equipment of this class) [Unknown] — no citation (absence of findings)

Related vendors

none identified — no evidence of additional OUI blocks or subsidiary registrations under this name [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry (single match only)