The "Boxin" OUI slug covers two separate IEEE MA-L registrations held by what appear to be different legal entities that happen to share the name. D8:66:EE is registered to "BOXIN COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD." at an address in Haidian District, Beijing — a major Chinese technology district. 98:CB:38 is registered to "Boxin Communications Limited Liability Company" at the Luquan Economic Development Zone in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, an industrial area. Both are MA-L blocks, each spanning roughly 16 million addresses. The vendor names point toward telecom or wireless hardware, but no product pages, datasheets, OEM relationships, forum sightings, or vendor websites could be found to confirm what kind of devices either entity actually ships, so the device category stays Unknown. Note that many unrelated Chinese companies use "Boxin" (audio, robotics, machinery, investments, chip distribution); none of those are the OUI registrants here. No security advisories, CVEs, or threat-intel reports reference either prefix. IEEE publishes no registration dates for MA-L OUI assignments, so any third-party "date registered" value is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact, and is not recorded here as an official date.
- IEEE assignment (entity 1)
- D8:66:EE → BOXIN COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD., Room 309, Block A, New materials business building, Haidian District, Beijing, CN 100094 [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv (line 790); https://maclookup.app/macaddress/D866EE
- IEEE assignment (entity 2)
- 98:CB:38 → Boxin Communications Limited Liability Company, NO.22, Changsheng Street, Luquan Economic Development Zone, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, CN 050200 [Confirmed] — enrichment/registries/oui.csv (line 30392); https://maclookup.app/macaddress/98CB38
- Registry / block size
- both MA-L (24-bit OUI), ~16M addresses each [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L via enrichment/registries/oui.csv. No MA-M (mam.csv) or MA-S (oui36.csv) entries exist for either name.
- Country
- CN (both entities) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry addresses
- Distinct entities
- the two registrations appear to be different legal entities despite the shared "Boxin" name — separate cities (Beijing vs. Shijiazhuang) and slightly different registered names [Likely] — registry addresses + name comparison (enrichment/registries/oui.csv)
- Company status
- Unknown — no vendor website or corporate registry confirmation found for either entity [Unknown]
- Device types
- Unknown — names suggest telecom/wireless hardware, but no product listings, datasheets, OEM relationships, or forum sightings corroborate any device category for either OUI [Unknown] — web search returned no product evidence
- Vendor website
- Unknown — no public-facing site found for either registrant [Unknown]
- Registration dates
- NOT recorded as fact. Third-party scrapers list D8:66:EE as "initially registered 2014-04-22" and 98:CB:38 as "2024-02-20", but IEEE publishes NO OUI registration dates; these are database artifacts and are deliberately left null [Unknown] — https://maclookup.app/macaddress/D866EE, https://maclookup.app/macaddress/98CB38
- Security context
- Unknown — no CVEs, advisories, malware/C2 associations, or threat-intel reports reference D8:66:EE or 98:CB:38 [Unknown] — web search returned no security findings
- Name-collision caveat
- unrelated companies share "Boxin" (Huizhou Boxin Electronics — audio; Quzhou Boxin Technology — robots; Ningbo Boxin Machinery; Jiangsu Boxin Investing & Holdings; BOXIN CHIP CO. LIMITED). None are the OUI registrants. [Confirmed] — web search
- Analyst note
- a D8:66:EE or 98:CB:38 OUI identifies an IEEE-registered "Boxin" entity, but with no confirmed device type or website, OUI alone says little about the actual product. Treat the two prefixes as separate registrants.