The OUI 10:B7:A8 is registered in the IEEE MA-L registry to "CableFree Networks Limited" at the Oxford Science Park (G6, Magdalen Centre, Robert Robinson Avenue, Oxford, OX4 4GA, United Kingdom). CableFree is the trading brand of Wireless Excellence Limited, a British wireless networking hardware manufacturer headquartered at the same Oxford Science Park address — the registry and the corporate site corroborate one another on location, so the entity behind the prefix is well established even though the exact legal name on the IEEE record ("CableFree Networks Limited") differs slightly from the operating company name ("Wireless Excellence Limited"). The hardware that draws on this allocation is carrier- and enterprise-grade wireless infrastructure rather than consumer gear: point-to-point microwave radio links across licensed and unlicensed bands, millimeter-wave (60 GHz V-band and 70/80 GHz E-band) links, MIMO OFDM broadband radios, 4G/5G LTE base stations, customer-premises equipment, carrier Wi-Fi access points, and Free Space Optics links. All of these carry Ethernet interfaces and therefore receive MAC addresses, so the prefix most plausibly maps to one or more of these radio/networking product lines. Deployments span telecom backhaul, wireless ISP backbones, enterprise building-to-building links, CCTV/safe-city and public-safety networks, and military communications across more than 90 countries, with the products positioned as a fibre/leased-line bypass. No CVEs or public exploit disclosures specific to CableFree or Wireless Excellence were located in this pass; NVD was not queried directly, so absence here is not a guarantee. IEEE publishes no registration date for any OUI, so allocated_date stays Unknown — any "date registered" on third-party MAC lookup sites is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact, and no IANA reference applies to this entry.
- IEEE assignment
- 10:B7:A8 → CableFree Networks Limited [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv)
- Registry / block size
- MA-L (24-bit OUI); single match in oui.csv, not present in mam.csv (MA-M) or oui36.csv (MA-S) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry
- Registry address
- G6, Magdalen Centre, The Oxford Science Park, Robert Robinson Avenue, Oxford, GB OX4 4GA [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry
- Country
- GB (United Kingdom) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry
- Vendor / brand
- CableFree — trading brand of Wireless Excellence Limited [Confirmed] — https://www.cablefree.net/about/
- Legal entity
- Wireless Excellence Limited [Confirmed] — https://www.cablefree.net/about/ (note: IEEE record names "CableFree Networks Limited"; same Oxford Science Park address corroborates the entity)
- HQ / country
- Oxford Science Park, Oxford, OX4 4GA, United Kingdom [Confirmed] — https://www.cablefree.net/about/
- Website
- https://www.cablefree.net/ [Confirmed] — https://www.cablefree.net/
- Device types
- microwave point-to-point links (2–42 GHz, licensed/unlicensed), millimeter-wave links (60 GHz V-band, 70/80 GHz E-band), MIMO OFDM broadband radios, 4G/5G LTE base stations (macro + small cell), CPE, carrier Wi-Fi access points, Free Space Optics (FSO) links [Confirmed] — https://www.cablefree.net/products/ , https://www.cablefree.net/cablefree-microwave/ , https://www.cablefree.net/4g-lte/lte-base-station/
- Use cases / deployment
- telecom (4G/5G) backhaul, WISP backbone, enterprise building-to-building, CCTV/safe-city, public safety / border security, military comms, broadcast, healthcare, industrial, disaster recovery; deployed in 90+ countries; positioned as fibre/leased-line bypass [Confirmed] — https://www.cablefree.net/about/ , https://www.cablefree.net/solutions/
- Security context
- professional carrier-grade infrastructure, not consumer gear; millimeter-wave products claim physical-layer security via narrow beamwidth and low power; no public CVEs or exploit campaigns found for CableFree / Wireless Excellence in this pass (NVD not queried directly — not a guarantee of absence); sensitive-sector deployments make firmware/management-plane hardening relevant [Likely] — https://www.cablefree.net/wirelesstechnology/millimeter-wave-technology/ , https://www.cablefree.net/about/
- Allocated date
- Unknown — IEEE publishes no registration date for OUI assignments; third-party "date registered" values are database artifacts, not IEEE facts [Unknown] — IEEE MA-L (no date column)
- IANA reference
- Unknown / not applicable — no IANA RFC reference applies to an OUI vendor entry; column stays blank [Confirmed] — n/a
- Analyst note
- A 10:B7:A8 globally-administered address identifies genuine CableFree / Wireless Excellence hardware (carrier/enterprise wireless infrastructure), useful for asset classification in telecom/WISP/public-safety inventories.