ECI Telecom Ltd. — 7 prefixes (MA-L)
Summary
- // what this is
- ECI Telecom is registered to MAC prefix
00:02:0Eand 6 more in the IEEE OUI database. When a device's MAC address begins with00:02:0E, that block was registered by ECI Telecom — the OUI identifies the maker of the network hardware, which is not always the brand on the device. ECI Telecom was acquired; the registration remains on record with IEEE. - // analyst note
- An ECI Telecom OUI on a globally-administered address reliably identifies genuine ECI-manufactured hardware (carrier optical-transport or, less commonly, the consumer B-FOCuS CPE line); post-2020 firmware/support attribution should reference Ribbon Communications, not ECI directly.
About this vendor.
ECI Telecom Ltd. holds seven independent MA-L OUI blocks — 00:02:0E, 00:06:5F, 00:16:FA, 00:20:8F, 30:C5:07, CC:40:B2, and F8:54:AF — all registered to the identical "ECI Telecom Ltd." registrant string with a Petah Tikva, Israel address, spanning what looks like several hardware generations from the older 00:xx:xx-era Ethernet range through the newer CC:40:xx and F8:54:xx blocks. The company traces to 1961 as Electronics Corporation of Israel, was renamed ECI Telecom in 1981, traded on NASDAQ from 1982 until a 2007 take-private buyout, and built its business on carrier-grade optical transport — Neptune NPT-1800/1300 metro platforms, WDM/ROADM, SDH/SONET — alongside a smaller consumer/SMB broadband CPE line (B-FOCuS ADSL2+ routers). Ribbon Communications completed a $486M acquisition of ECI in 2020, and the ECI brand is now fully folded into Ribbon's product portfolio rather than operating as a standalone entity, which matters for anyone trying to attribute current firmware or support channels to "ECI" directly. Two disclosed vulnerability records (one CVE, one Exploit-DB entry) exist for the consumer CPE line specifically, not the carrier optical-transport core. One of the seven registry rows carries an internally inconsistent country code that is reproduced here rather than silently corrected.
- IEEE assignment
- 7 MA-L blocks (00:02:0E, 00:06:5F, 00:16:FA, 00:20:8F, 30:C5:07, CC:40:B2, F8:54:AF) → "ECI Telecom Ltd." [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry
- Registry / block size
- all 7 are MA-L (24-bit OUI); no MA-M or MA-S rows found for ECI Telecom [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry
- Registered address
- 30 Hasivim St, Petah Tikva, Israel, postal 49133 — consistent across 6 of the 7 rows [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry
- Address anomaly
- the 00:16:FA row's country field reads "US" while retaining the same Petah Tikva street address and Israeli-style postal code 49133; reproduced as-is from the registry rather than corrected — most plausibly a registry data-entry artifact, not evidence of a separate US registrant[Likely] — the IEEE MA-L registry
- Company history
- founded 1961 as Electronics Corporation of Israel, renamed ECI Telecom 1981, NASDAQ-listed 1982–2007 (then taken private) [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECI_Telecom
- Current corporate status
- acquired by Ribbon Communications for $486M, merger completed 2020; ECI brand fully absorbed into Ribbon, no longer an independent standalone company [Confirmed] — https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ribbon-communications-inc-completes-merger-with-eci-telecom-group-ltd-301015822.html, https://learn.rbbn.com/eci-is-now-ribbon
- Device types
- carrier packet-optical transport (Neptune NPT-1800/1300 metro aggregation), WDM/ROADM, SDH/SONET, Carrier Ethernet switch/routers, SDN/NFV platforms; also a consumer/SMB B-FOCuS ADSL2+ wireless router line [Confirmed] — https://www.launch3telecom.com/eci/npt1800/, https://opticalconnectionsnews.com/2012/12/eci-telecoms-native-packet-transport-targets-the-metro/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECI_Telecom
- Security context
- CVE-2006-5711 (B-FOCuS ADSL2+ Combo332+ unauthenticated info disclosure) and EDB-26022 (B-FOCuS Router 312+ unauthenticated admin-password disclosure), both on the consumer CPE line, not the carrier optical core; no CVEs found for the Neptune/NPT line in this pass[Confirmed] — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28888, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26022
- Registration dates
- Unknown — IEEE's the IEEE MA-L registry carries no date column for any of the 7 blocks; no date is recorded or invented, and any third-party "date registered" figure would be a database artifact, not an IEEE fact [Confirmed absence] — the IEEE MA-L registry
- IANA reference
- not applicable to OUI/MAC registry data; left blank rather than invented [Confirmed]