ALBERTA MICROELECTRONIC CENTRE MAC Prefix: Registry Assignment
Summary
- // what this is
- Alberta Microelectronic Centre is registered to MAC prefix
00:80:C9in the IEEE OUI database. When a device's MAC address begins with00:80:C9, that block was registered by Alberta Microelectronic Centre — the OUI identifies the maker of the network hardware, which is not always the brand on the device. - // analyst note
- A matching prefix indicates the registry assignment only; it does not identify a particular device, current operator, deployment, or security state. For 00:80:C9, the Group and Local bits in the first octet are both zero; changing either bit changes the prefix.
About this vendor.
A MAC address beginning 00:80:C9 matches an IEEE MA-L assignment registered to ALBERTA MICROELECTRONIC CENTRE; it does not identify a specific device or prove who operates it today. The supplied records do not establish a device category, product, or industry for this legal entity. Assignment dates are unavailable in these IEEE CSV records.
This is a 24-bit prefix, leaving 24 bits for suffix values: 16,777,216 possible values. That arithmetic describes the address space, not the number of devices made, shipped, or observed. A matching address supports the prefix match only; it does not establish deployment, traffic prevalence, or security status.
For 00:80:C9, the first octet is 00: its Group bit and Local bit are both zero. These bit values are fixed for an exact prefix match. Changing either bit changes the prefix and does not describe variation within this assignment. RFC 7042 explains the roles of these bits in MAC identifiers and distinguishes prefixes from the remaining identifier bits.
- Assigned prefix
00:80:C9(MA-L, 24 bits) [Confirmed] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv- Device category
- Unknown; no supplied source maps a device category to this prefix [Unknown]
- Country
- Unknown; the supplied record does not unambiguously identify a country [Unknown]