Akamai Technologies, Inc. — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

Akamai Technologies, Inc. holds at least two IEEE MA-L OUI blocks — 00:1C:A1 and 00:22:18 — both registered to the identical organization name and address (145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142, US), confirming the two allocations belong to the same company rather than a look-alike registrant. Akamai is a publicly traded, S&P 500 content-delivery and cloud-security operator (NASDAQ: AKAM) that runs one of the internet's largest distributed edge platforms, reportedly on the order of 365,000 servers spread across 135+ countries. That scale — and the fact that Akamai holds multiple separate OUI assignments rather than a single block — is itself evidence this is a substantive infrastructure vendor rather than a bare shell registration. The practical read for a MAC-lookup user: these OUIs identify Akamai's own edge/cache server hardware, which normally sits inside carrier and ISP colocation facilities rather than on a home or small-office LAN. No vendor-published hardware model ties to either specific OUI block, and no security advisories or MAC-spoofing reports specific to these prefixes were found in this pass, so both remain open questions rather than confirmed facts.

IEEE assignment

two MA-L blocks (00:1C:A1, 00:22:18) → Akamai Technologies Inc., registered 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, US 02142 [Confirmed] — cached IEEE registry (the IEEE MA-L registry, lines 30387, 38323), cross-confirmed by two independent aggregators (maclookup.app, netify.ai) and a live api.macvendors.com lookup for 00:1C:A1

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI), two separate assignments to the same org/address [Confirmed] — IEEE registry

HQ / country

145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142, US (registry address) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry

Company status

active, publicly traded (NASDAQ: AKAM), S&P 500 [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies

Device types

edge/CDN cache server hardware (infrastructure equipment, not consumer/retail) [Likely, not vendor-confirmed for either specific OUI] — inferred from Akamai's known business model; no vendor spec sheet found tying a hardware model to either block

Notable products

Intelligent Edge Platform — CDN, DDoS mitigation, WAF, bot management [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies

allocated_date

Unknown — IEEE's the IEEE MA-L registry publishes no assignment/registration date. Third-party aggregator maclookup.app lists "registered" dates of 2007-05-16 (00:1C:A1) and 2008-10-25 (00:22:18); these are database-scrape artifacts, NOT IEEE facts, and are not recorded as allocation dates here.

[Confirmed caveat] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/akamai-technologies-inc

Security context

Unknown — no advisories, malware reports, or MAC-spoofing incidents tied specifically to these two OUI blocks were found in this pass [Unknown]

Related vendors

none found

Analyst note

two independent MA-L assignments to one org/address, plus Akamai's public-market profile, place this well above the single-OUI-shell threshold; treat device-model and security-context claims as open (Unknown), not confirmed.