AETA Audio Systems — 00:15:97 (MA-L)

AETA Audio Systems is a French broadcast-equipment manufacturer based in Le Plessis Robinson, near Paris, founded in 1978 and still operating today under the same name. The company's niche is audio transmission gear for radio and television broadcasters — its "Scoop" product family (ScoopFone, ScoopFone IP, ScoopyFlex, Scoop6, MultiScoop, eScoopFone) covers portable and rack-mount codecs that carry professional audio over IP and cellular links. These are genuine Ethernet/IP-connected devices, not incidental hardware: AETA even distributes a companion utility, AETAScan, whose documented purpose is to enumerate its codecs on a local network by MAC and IP address, which directly corroborates real-world use of the 00:15:97 block on fielded equipment rather than a dormant or shell registration. A second, differently-named MA-L block (000384, "AETA") registered to the same town raises the possibility of a related or identical corporate entity, though that linkage is not independently confirmed here.

OUI assignment

00-15-97 (001597), MA-L, "AETA AUDIO SYSTEMS" [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Registered address

18-22, avenue Edouard Herriot, Le Plessis Robinson, FR 92350 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Cross-registry corroboration

the Wireshark manufacturer database.csv line 5513 maps 00:15:97 to short "AetaAudio" / long "Aeta Audio Systems", matching the IEEE MA-L registry org name [Confirmed] — the Wireshark manufacturer database

Company identity and history

founded 1978, headquartered in Le Plessis Robinson, France; current site lists a different but same-town address (Centre d'Affaires La Boursidière), consistent with an established firm having moved premises over ~47 years

[Confirmed] — https://www.aeta-audio.com/en/, https://www.aeta-audio.com/en/contact-2/

Product / device context

manufactures IP and cellular broadcast audio codecs (ScoopFone, ScoopFone IP, ScoopyFlex, Scoop6, MultiScoop, eScoopFone) — network-connected hardware consistent with holding MAC address space

[Confirmed] — https://www.aeta-audio.com/en/codecs-2/, https://www.aeta-audio.com/en/products/scoopfone-ip-2/

Network-identity corroboration

AETA ships "AETAScan," a utility documented to scan the LAN and list AETA codecs by MAC/IP, directly tying the OUI to fielded network devices [Confirmed] — https://www.aeta-audio.com/en/faq-2/

Other registry blocks (MA-M/mam.csv, MA-S/oui36.csv)

none found for AETA/Aeta Audio Systems — this vendor holds only the single 00:15:97 MA-L block in the checked registries [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

Possible related entity

a second MA-L block, 000384 "AETA" (no "Audio Systems" suffix), registered at "Kepler 6, Le Plessis Robinson, FR 92350" — same municipality, distinct registrant name; may be the same corporate group but no French business-registry (SIREN) cross-check was performed to confirm identical legal entity

[Likely] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Do-not-conflate note

"Aetas Systems Inc." (002530, HsinChu, TW) is an unrelated company with a similar but distinct name ("Aetas" vs "Aeta") [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Security history

no CVEs or advisories found for AETA/Scoop products in a general web search; this is an absence-of-findings result, not a confirmed-clean record, since no direct NVD/CVE-by-CPE query was run [Unknown]

Registration date

not published by IEEE for any OUI assignment; no date is asserted for this entry [Confirmed] — no citation (absence of a source is the point)

IANA Reference

not applicable — no IANA involvement in IEEE OUI/MA-L assignments [Confirmed]