Descartes Systems (USA) LLC — 2C:DC:78 (MA-L)

Descartes Systems (USA) LLC holds a single IEEE MA-L block, 2C:DC:78, registered to the company at 2030 Powers Ferry Road SE, Atlanta, GA, US. The registrant is the US subsidiary of The Descartes Systems Group Inc., a Waterloo, Ontario-based logistics and supply-chain software company that trades publicly as NASDAQ: DSGX and TSX: DSG; the US entity was incorporated in Delaware in 2015. Descartes is overwhelmingly a SaaS and software business rather than a network-hardware manufacturer, so this OUI is narrow in scope: its most plausible use is Descartes' fleet telematics line — an OBD-II dongle that plugs into a commercial vehicle's diagnostic port and carries a Bluetooth interface and a cellular module for backhaul — or internal lab and R&D equipment. The practical consequence for asset classification is that this prefix is not something you would expect to see on general enterprise or consumer network gear; a device presenting 2C:DC:78 is far more likely to be vehicle-mounted telematics hardware than a switch, AP, or laptop. As with every OUI, IEEE publishes no assignment date for the block, so any "date registered" shown by third-party lookup tools is a database artifact rather than an IEEE fact and should not be recorded as one.

IEEE assignment

2C:DC:78 → Descartes Systems (USA) LLC, registered Atlanta, GA, US [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv (enrichment/registries/oui.csv line 607)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); holds 1 IEEE prefix [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv. NOTE: IEEE's public OUI data publishes NO assignment/registration date (oui.csv columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address); any "date registered" on third-party tools is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact.

HQ / country

2030 Powers Ferry Road SE, Atlanta, GA, US (registry address). Subsidiary incorporated in Delaware 2015-04-28; parent The Descartes Systems Group Inc. HQ is Waterloo, Ontario, Canada [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv; https://opengovwa.com/corporation/602343712; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes_Systems_Group

Company status

active — publicly traded logistics SaaS company (NASDAQ: DSGX, TSX: DSG); US subsidiary active per most recent Washington State filing [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes_Systems_Group; https://opengovwa.com/corporation/602343712

Industry

logistics software / SaaS / supply-chain management; fleet telematics [Confirmed] — https://www.descartes.com/about-us

Device types

fleet telematics OBD-II dongle (plug-and-play, Bluetooth-capable, cellular backhaul); possibly internal R&D / lab networking equipment. Descartes is not a general network-hardware manufacturer, so MAC-bearing devices are narrow in scope [Likely — inferred from product literature; no Descartes hardware spec sheet naming a MAC/Bluetooth interface was accessible] — https://www.descartes.com/resources/knowledge-center/descartes-telematics-and-compliance; https://www.descartes.com/solutions/safety-telematics-and-compliance/fleet-telematics

Notable products

Descartes Telematics and Compliance OBD device (GPS, gyroscope, 32-bit processor, Bluetooth peripheral integration, cellular data backhaul); Descartes Routing, Mobile and Telematics platform (SaaS) [Likely] — https://www.descartes.com/resources/knowledge-center/descartes-telematics-and-compliance

Security context

no known CVEs. UpGuard security rating A (831/950); email DMARC policy p=none (not enforced), HSTS not enforced, DNSSEC not enabled, no open external ports detected. OBD telematics devices use cellular backhaul rather than exposed Wi-Fi, so hardware-level network attack surface is low [Likely — single-source, third-party rating snapshot] — https://www.upguard.com/security-report/descartes

Website

https://www.descartes.com [Confirmed] — https://www.descartes.com/about-us

Analyst note

Descartes is a pure SaaS / logistics-software company; its only known MAC-bearing hardware is an OBD-II telematics dongle for commercial-vehicle diagnostic ports. The OUI is almost certainly for that device line (its Bluetooth interface or cellular module) or for internal lab equipment, not for general enterprise or consumer network gear. No registration date is claimed — IEEE publishes none for OUI blocks [Likely] — https://www.descartes.com/resources/knowledge-center/descartes-telematics-and-compliance; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes_Systems_Group