Aware, Inc. — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address starting with 00:10:9E or 34:A1:83 belongs to Aware, Inc., a Massachusetts-incorporated company holding two separate IEEE MA-L (24-bit) OUI assignments. Both point to the same real operating company rather than a single-block shell registration.

Aware was incorporated in 1986 and went public in 1996 to commercialize DSL-related intellectual property. From roughly the late 1990s through 2009 it supplied DSL/home-networking chipset IP and "Dr. DSL" diagnostics software used by telecom equipment makers and phone companies, which is the plausible source of device association for these prefixes: DSL modems and home-networking gear of that era carrying Aware-licensed silicon or firmware.

That networking business is historical, not current. Aware sold its home-networking/DSL assets to Lantiq in 2009 and related patents to Intel in 2012, and has operated exclusively as a biometric identity-software vendor (fingerprint, face, voice, and keystroke authentication) since 2019. Its own site carries no networking-hardware content today, so these OUIs should not be read as identifying present-day Aware products.

The two registered addresses independently corroborate this: "AWARE, INC." at One Oak Park, Bedford, MA on 00:10:9E, and "AWare, Inc" at 614 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA on 34:A1:83, match two documented stops in the company's own HQ relocation history (Cambridge, then Bedford, now Burlington). Third-party "registration dates" for these two blocks are scrape artifacts, not IEEE facts, and are internally inconsistent with that address chronology, so no registration date is published here.

Device class

DSL modems / home-networking gear (historical, roughly late 1990s–2009); not present-day Aware hardware

Vendor

Aware, Inc., publicly traded as NASDAQ: AWRE

Prefixes

00:10:9E (registered "AWARE, INC.", Bedford, MA) and 34:A1:83 (registered "AWare, Inc", Cambridge, MA)

Current business

biometric identity-verification software (Knomi, Awareness Platform); no networking hardware sold today

Registry

MA-L (24-bit OUI); no MA-M or MA-S blocks found for this vendor

IEEE assignments

00:10:9E → "AWARE, INC.", One Oak Park, Bedford, MA 01730, US; 34:A1:83 → "AWare, Inc", 614 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 00109E, the IEEE MA-L registry 34A183

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) x2 assignments; no MA-M or MA-S blocks found under this vendor [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

HQ / country

registry addresses are Bedford, MA and Cambridge, MA, US; current corporate HQ is Burlington, MA per company history [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aware,_Inc.

Company status

active, publicly traded (NASDAQ: AWRE) [Confirmed] — https://www.aware.com/

Device types

historically DSL modems / home-networking gear carrying Aware chipset IP or "Dr. DSL" diagnostics software; current business (biometric identity software) does not ship MAC-bearing hardware [Likely] — https://us.design-reuse.com/news/21840/home-networking-dsl.html, https://www.aware.com/

Notable products

Knomi, Awareness Platform (current); Dr. DSL, DSL/home-networking chipset IP (historical, divested) [Likely] — https://www.aware.com/biometrics/, https://us.design-reuse.com/news/21840/home-networking-dsl.html

Company background

incorporated 1986; went public 1996; divested DSL/home-networking assets to Lantiq in 2009 (~$6.75M); sold related patents to Intel in 2012 (~$75M); pure biometrics-software company since 2019

[Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aware,_Inc., https://us.design-reuse.com/news/21840/home-networking-dsl.html

Third-party date caveat

maclookup.app lists scrape dates of 1998-04-22 (00:10:9E) and 2010-11-24 (34:A1:83); IEEE's MA-L registry schema (Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) has no date field, and these two scrape dates are internally hard to reconcile with the company's own address chronology, so no registration date is asserted

[Likely] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/aware-inc

Security note

no CVEs, advisories, or abuse reports found tied to Aware, Inc. or either OUI as of an August 2026 search [Unknown] — no adverse source found

Related vendors

Lantiq (acquired DSL/home-networking assets, 2009); Intel (acquired related patents, 2012) [Likely] — https://us.design-reuse.com/news/21840/home-networking-dsl.html

Analyst note

two independently-addressed OUI assignments whose registered addresses match Aware's own documented HQ relocation history confirm a real operating company; device association with these prefixes is historical DSL/home-networking hardware, not Aware's current biometrics-software business

[Likely] — synthesis of the IEEE MA-L registry and sources above