Advansus Corp. — OUI 00:19:0F (MA-L)

Advansus Corp. (also styled Advansus Computer) holds a single IEEE MA-L block, 00:19:0F, registered to an address in Kwei Hsiang, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Behind that one assignment sits a genuinely documented company: Advansus began around late 2005/2006 as a design-and-manufacturing-services (DMS) joint venture between Asustek Computer (ASUS's parent) and Advantech, with startup capital near US$30.4M, and was later restructured so that Pegatron held the Asustek-side stake. Advantech then acquired Pegatron's 50% stake in January 2012, taking the operation to full Advantech ownership. Its product line was embedded and industrial computing hardware — mini-ITX and Nano-ITX motherboards and barebone systems for multimedia, networking, digital-signage, and surveillance applications. Named products include the i915GV2-LEI mini-ITX board (Intel mobile Pentium M / 915GV), the i965GM-DCQI (Intel GME965) mini-ITX board, and the NTC100-LX800 wireless Nano-ITX barebone (AMD Geode LX800); the company also exhibited digital-signage and surveillance solutions at Embedded Technology 2007. A single OUI is consistent with an embedded-systems OEM that needed only one MAC block for onboard NICs, so the lone assignment does not signal a thin entry — the company is well documented independent of the OUI database. No CVEs, botnet, or scanning/abuse signal was found tied to Advansus or 00:19:0F; that is an absence-of-evidence null, not a certified clean bill. Note that IEEE publishes no OUI registration date, so the "2006-07-19" seen on lookup aggregators is a third-party database artifact and is not asserted here as an IEEE fact.

IEEE assignment

OUI 00:19:0F → Advansus Corp., MA-L [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (cached IEEE MA-L)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); single prefix (no MA-M / MA-S entries) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry; not found in the IEEE MA-M registry (MA-M) or the IEEE MA-S registry (MA-S)

Registered address

No.5 Shing Yeh Street, Kwei Hsiang, Taoyuan 333, TW [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry; corroborated by maclookup.app

Company

Advansus Corp. / Advansus Computer — Taiwan DMS/embedded-computing joint venture [Confirmed] — EE Times, DigiTimes, Taipei Times, Legit Reviews

Ownership history

Asustek + Advantech JV (~late 2005/2006, startup capital ~US$30.4M) → Pegatron held Asustek-side stake → Advantech acquired Pegatron's 50% stake Jan 2012 (full Advantech ownership) [Likely] — DigiTimes (a20060120A7032, a20120104PD210), Taipei Times (2005/10/01), Legit Reviews (advansus-computer-formed-by-asustek-advantech-venture)

Device types

embedded/industrial computing — mini-ITX & Nano-ITX motherboards and barebone systems for multimedia, networking, digital signage, surveillance [Confirmed] — EE Times (advansus-rolls-out-mini-itx-board), DigiTimes (a20071122PD201)

Notable products

i915GV2-LEI (mini-ITX, Intel Pentium M / 915GV); i965GM-DCQI (mini-ITX, Intel GME965); NTC100-LX800 (Nano-ITX barebone, AMD Geode LX800) [Likely] — EE Times / EDN (advansus-rolls-out-mini-itx-board-for-multimedia-networking-apps)

Company status

no longer independent — folded into Advantech following the Jan 2012 acquisition [Likely] — DigiTimes (a20120104PD210)

OUI registration date

Unknown — IEEE publishes no OUI/MA-L assignment date; aggregators' "2006-07-19 / updated 2015-11-17" are third-party database artifacts, not IEEE facts, and are not asserted here [Confirmed] — maclookup.app (annotated as artifact); the IEEE MA-L registry (no date column)

Security / abuse context

Unknown — no CVEs, honeypot/scanning reports, botnet ties, or vendor advisories found for Advansus or 00:19:0F in this pass; absence-of-evidence null, not a confirmed clean bill [Unknown] — no source found

Primary-source caveat

canonical IEEE oui.txt fetch returned HTTP 418 this pass; org-to-prefix mapping rests on the cached IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry plus concordant third-party aggregators [Confirmed] — W1-web notes