Canal + — 2 confirmed prefixes (MA-L)

Canal+ (Canal+ S.A., part of Groupe Canal+) is a long-established French pay-TV broadcaster founded in 1984, formerly a Vivendi subsidiary and now independent following a spin-off completed in December 2024, with shares listed on the London Stock Exchange. The IEEE MA-L registry carries two confirmed OUI blocks assigned to the org name "Canal +": 00:01:17, registered to an address on Rue LeBlanc in Paris, and 00:26:E4, registered to an address in Boulogne-Billancourt — both French addresses consistent with Canal+'s corporate footprint. A third block, 00:50:C2:01:40/36, is attributed to "Canal +" in the community-maintained Wireshark the Wireshark manufacturer database (a mixed-source aggregation, not the raw IEEE registry file), so it is treated as unverified rather than confirmed here. Multiple OUI assignments plus device context — Canal+ issues branded satellite/IPTV set-top-box decoder hardware such as "Le Cube," with Wi-Fi/Ethernet interfaces exposing their MAC address in on-device menus — together establish this vendor as more than a bare shell registration, even though the underlying decoder hardware is typically manufactured by third-party ODM partners on Canal+'s behalf.

IEEE assignment 1

00:01:17 → "Canal +", 23 Rue LeBlanc, 75906 Paris Cedex 15, FR [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

IEEE assignment 2

00:26:E4 → "Canal +", 48 quai du point du jour, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR 92659 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Possible third block

00:50:C2:01:40/36 → "Canal +" per the Wireshark the Wireshark manufacturer database aggregation; not independently found in the direct IEEE the IEEE MA-S registry (MA-S) snapshot checked in this pass [Likely — single-source, unresolved against the primary registry file] — the Wireshark manufacturer database

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit), two confirmed blocks; a possible additional 36-bit sub-assignment under the shared 00:50:C2 individually-administered range is unresolved [Confirmed for the two MA-L blocks; Likely for the third]

Company

Canal+ S.A. (Groupe Canal+), French pay-TV broadcaster founded 1984, formerly part of Vivendi, spun off and listed on the London Stock Exchange as of December 2024 [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal+_S.A., https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-16/france-s-canal-starts-trading-in-london-in-push-to-go-global

Registered addresses / country

Paris and Boulogne-Billancourt, FR (per the two IEEE MA-L registrations above) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

Company status

active [Confirmed] — canalplus.com, https://www.vivendi.com/en/press-release/creation-of-canal-plus-france/

Device types

satellite/IPTV set-top-box decoder hardware (e.g., "Le Cube") exposing Wi-Fi/Ethernet MAC addresses in on-device network menus [Likely — sourced from user/community forum discussion, not manufacturer spec] — https://forums.macg.co/threads/connexion-wifi-decodeur-canal-le-cube.1201168/, https://communaute.orange.fr/t5/TV-par-ADSL-et-Fibre/d%C3%A9codeur-TV-et-adresse-MAC/td-p/3182471

Assignment dates

Unknown — IEEE's public OUI registry (the IEEE MA-L registry: Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) publishes no date column for either MA-L block; no date is fabricated for either assignment [Confirmed]

Masters check

no existing row for this slug in this site's own enrichment records; no prior .md/.CHECK/.REVIEW file for vendor-canal existed on disk before this pass [Confirmed]

IANA reference

not applicable — OUI/MA-L registry files carry no IANA Reference column [Confirmed]