Alpha Technologies Inc. — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address beginning 00:26:97 or 00:90:EA belongs to Alpha Technologies Inc., a Bellingham, Washington manufacturer of standby power equipment for broadband, cable, and telecom networks. Hardware carrying one of these prefixes is most plausibly a UPS, rectifier, or power-monitoring/communication card deployed in network infrastructure — not general-purpose computing or routing gear.

Alpha Technologies Inc. was acquired by EnerSys (NYSE: ENS) on 2018-12-07 for $750 million and continues to operate as the "Alpha" brand within EnerSys. Its product line spans AC/DC power conversion, UPS systems, rectifiers, batteries, and renewable-energy power systems for outside-plant and inside-plant telecom applications.

Two Alpha product lines support that device-class inference: the AlphaNet DSM/ESM status-monitor card and the Alpha FXM communication module expose Ethernet or SNMP interfaces, and the XM2/GMX CableUPS can carry an embedded DOCSIS cable modem. All three are network-facing add-ons for Alpha's standby-power hardware rather than the power hardware itself.

A separate, unrelated registrant also holds an IEEE block under the identical normalized name: "ALPHA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC" of Akron, Ohio (block 7C:BA:CC:E0/28), a rheology and rubber-testing-instrument maker now owned by Indicor. The two companies share only a generic name — no business relationship was found — and this entry's prefixes cover only the Bellingham, Washington registrant.

IEEE assignment

00:26:97 → "Alpha Technologies Inc." (registry text; double space is a data artifact), registered 3767 Alpha Way, Bellingham, WA 98226, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 002697

IEEE assignment

00:90:EA → "ALPHA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.", registered 3767 Alpha Way, Bellingham, WA 98226, US (identical address to 00:26:97) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0090EA

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) × 2 independent blocks, both registered to this company [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

HQ / country

3767 Alpha Way, Bellingham, WA 98226, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 002697, the IEEE MA-L registry 0090EA

Company status

active; operating as the "Alpha" brand within EnerSys (NYSE: ENS) since EnerSys completed its $750M acquisition on 2018-12-07 [Confirmed] — https://www.enersys.com/en/about-us/news/enersys-completes-acquisition-of-the-alpha-technologies-group-of-companies/, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1289308/000128930819000053/ens-09292019x10qfy20.htm

Device types

standby/backup power systems (UPS, rectifiers), AC/DC and renewable-energy power conversion, network monitoring/communication add-on cards for that hardware [Confirmed] — https://www.alpha.com/

Notable products

AlphaNet DSM/ESM status-monitor card, XM2/GMX CableUPS (can carry an embedded DOCSIS cable modem), Alpha FXM communication module, Continuity UPS SNMP card [Confirmed] — https://www.alpha.com/products/equipment/outside-plant-power/item/alphanet-dsm, https://www.enersys.com/4a3224/globalassets/documents/product-documentation2/alpha/ups-solutions/outdoor/micro-100/amer/fxm-comm-module.pdf

Registration dates

Unknown — IEEE's public OUI schema (Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) has no date column for either block; no third-party source surfaced one either [Confirmed absence] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Security context

no CVE naming Alpha Technologies power/UPS/rectifier products is recorded in the NVD as of an August 2026 search [Unknown] — https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search

Name-collision caveat

a separate, unrelated registrant, "ALPHA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC" of Akron, OH — a rheology/rubber-testing-instrument company now owned by Indicor — holds its own IEEE block (7C:BA:CC:E0/28) under the identical normalized name; NOT covered by this entry

[Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry 7CBACCE, https://www.alpha-technologies.com/about-alpha-technologies/, https://www.indicor.com/

Analyst note

hardware presenting 00:26:97 or 00:90:EA is most plausibly a standby-power monitoring/communication card in cable/telecom infrastructure, not general-purpose computing gear [Likely] — https://www.alpha.com/products/equipment/outside-plant-power/item/alphanet-dsm