OUI 00:08:92 is registered to EM Solutions, an Australian specialist in microwave and RF hardware for satellite communications, headquartered at 101 Hyde Rd, Yeronga, Brisbane, QLD 4104, Australia. The block is a 24-bit MA-L assignment (the largest IEEE block class, ~16.7M host addresses), and it covers the embedded network interfaces inside EM Solutions' own products rather than any consumer or general-purpose IT gear. Those products are specialist RF/microwave terminals: satellite-on-the-move (SOTM) and VSAT terminals, block upconverters (BUCs), low-noise blocks (LNBs), and high-power millimetre-wave/E-band radio transmission systems for commercial and defence use. The company was founded in 1998 (as a successor to Brisbane's Mitec Limited), was acquired by Electro Optic Systems in October 2019, and is now owned by UK defence group Cohort plc following an acquisition completed in January 2025. The practical asset-classification takeaway: a 00:08:92 MAC almost always belongs to one of these niche SATCOM/microwave terminals — frequently deployed in maritime, military, or financial-trading-link environments — not to an off-the-shelf networking device. As with every IEEE OUI, no registration date is published by IEEE; third-party "first seen" timestamps (e.g. 2001-12-14 on maclookup.app) are database artifacts and must not be treated as an IEEE registration fact.
- IEEE assignment
- 00:08:92 (hex 000892) → EM Solutions, MA-L block [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv, line 5543); corroborated https://aruljohn.com/mac/000892, https://maclookup.app/vendors/em-solutions
- Registry / block size
- MA-L (24-bit OUI); ~16,777,215 host addresses per block [Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/em-solutions
- HQ / country
- 101 Hyde Rd, Yeronga, Brisbane, QLD 4104, Australia (AU) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L registry address; https://aruljohn.com/mac/000892. NOTE: some third-party records list the suburb as Tennyson (4105); the registry-of-record address is Yeronga 4104.
- Company status
- active [Confirmed] — https://www.emsolutions.com.au/about/
- Device types
- SATCOM/SOTM and VSAT satellite terminals, microwave radio transceivers, BUCs (block upconverters), LNBs, broadband/mm-wave and E-band radio transmission systems — specialist defence/commercial RF hardware, NOT consumer or enterprise networking [Confirmed] — https://www.emsolutions.com.au/products-and-solutions/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM_Solutions
- Notable products
- E10G E-band (70–80 GHz) ~5 Gbit/s microwave radio (reported in use linking NYSE/NASDAQ servers); SOTM maritime/defence satellite terminals [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM_Solutions (single primary source; tagged Likely)
- Company background
- Founded 1998 by Dr John Ness and Peter Bradley as successor to Mitec Limited (Brisbane); microwave/RF products for commercial and defence SATCOM. Acquired by Electro Optic Systems (EOS, ASX) Oct 2019; acquired by Cohort plc (UK) Jan 2025. Over 50 employees. [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM_Solutions, https://www.emsolutions.com.au/about/history/
- No IEEE date
- IEEE public OUI data (oui.csv columns: Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) publishes NO assignment/registration date. maclookup.app shows "First Seen: 2001-12-14" / "Last Modified: 2015-11-17" — these are third-party database artifacts, not IEEE facts. [Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/em-solutions
- IANA reference
- none — no IANA RFC reference applies to OUI/MA-L assignments; column stays blank [Confirmed]
- Security context
- No publicly documented CVEs or advisories found for EM Solutions or OUI 00:08:92 in NVD/MITRE. Threat surface is specific to defence/maritime/financial deployment contexts rather than the OUI itself. [Likely] — https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln
- Vendor website
- https://www.emsolutions.com.au/ [Confirmed] — https://www.emsolutions.com.au/
- Analyst note
- A globally-administered 00:08:92 address reliably identifies a niche EM Solutions SATCOM/microwave terminal. Single OUI vendor (one MA-L block), so no consolidation/randomization caveats apply as they do for large consumer vendors.