Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd — 12 prefixes (MA-L)
Summary
- // what this is
- Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell is registered to MAC prefix
000772and 11 more in the IEEE OUI database. When a device's MAC address begins with000772, that block was registered by Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell — the OUI identifies the maker of the network hardware, which is not always the brand on the device. - // analyst note
- 12 distinct OUI assignments plus a documented, decades-old telecom-equipment corporate lineage place this above the bare single-OUI shell threshold; no confirmed security advisories name this exact OUI set.
About this vendor.
Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd holds 12 separate IEEE MA-L (24-bit OUI) assignments, all registered to the identical Pudong Jinqiao address in Shanghai, which is enough distinct allocation history to place it well outside the "bare single-OUI shell" category. The organization traces back to Shanghai Bell, established in 1983 as China's first Sino-foreign telecom-equipment joint venture, later rebranded through the Alcatel and Alcatel-Lucent mergers, and — after Nokia's 2016 acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent — now continues operating at the same registered address under the name Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd. Product lines documented under the corporate lineage span mobile base-station equipment, optical access (GPON/ONT) gear, IP/core network infrastructure, and residential communication-terminal/CPE devices such as routers and gateways, giving these 12 prefixes credible telecom-hardware device context rather than a single anonymous registration. No security advisories were found naming Shanghai Bell hardware by that exact name; adjacent Alcatel-Lucent-branded CVEs exist but do not cite this OUI set, so they are noted only as background, not confirmed applicable.
- IEEE assignment
- 12 MA-L prefixes (000772, 184A6F, 1880F5, 3C8BCD, 54A619, A09D86, A8AD3D, AC9CE4, C8F86D, E03005, E4A1E6, F4C613) → "Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd" [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry
- Registry / block size
- MA-L (24-bit OUI) only — no MA-M or MA-S assignments found for this org [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry
- Registered address
- No. 389, Ningqiao Road, Pudong Jinqiao, Shanghai 201206, CN — identical across all 12 prefixes [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry
- Short-name cross-check
- "AlcatelLucen" consistent across all 12 prefixes [Confirmed] — the Wireshark manufacturer database
- Company background / successor entity
- Sino-foreign JV descended from Shanghai Bell (est. 1983); now operates as Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd at the same address following Nokia's 2016 Alcatel-Lucent acquisition (IEEE registry shows 28:6F:B9 already re-registered under the Nokia Shanghai Bell name at this address) [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent, https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt, https://www.sinohx.com/en/news/98.html
- Device types
- mobile network base-station equipment, optical access (GPON/ONT) equipment, IP/core network and 5G infrastructure, communication terminal/CPE (routers, gateways) [Likely] — https://www.sinohx.com/en/news/98.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent
- Security context
- no CVEs/advisories found naming "Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell" or "Shanghai Bell" hardware specifically; broader Alcatel-Lucent-branded CVEs (e.g. CVE-2018-10561 GPON ONT auth bypass, CVE-2025-52689 AP1361D auth bypass) exist but are not confirmed to trace to this OUI set[Likely] — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46469, https://github.com/UltimateHG/CVE-2025-52689-PoC
- Date registered
- Unknown / not applicable — IEEE publishes no assignment/registration dates for OUI/MA-L entries; the IEEE MA-L registry has no date column, and no date is attributed to IEEE here [Confirmed]
- IANA reference
- not applicable — this is an IEEE MAC/OUI registry entry, not an IANA registry entry; left blank rather than fabricated [Confirmed]