EVS Broadcast Equipment — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address starting with 00:03:41 or 00:1C:F3 belongs to EVS Broadcast Equipment, a Belgian manufacturer of networked live-video production hardware, typically found on the production LAN of a broadcast facility rather than in a consumer or general-office network.

EVS Broadcast Equipment SA — now rebranding simply as "EVS" — was founded in 1994 by Pierre L'Hoest and Laurent Minguet and is headquartered in Liège (Seraing), Belgium, at Liege Science Park, the same address recorded against both IEEE assignments. The company is publicly traded on Euronext Brussels, employs 800+ people, and operates in 100+ countries.

EVS's product line is consistent with the "Broadcast Equipment" registrant name: networked live-video production servers (XT-VIA, XS-VIA, XT-GO), replay/storytelling systems (LSM-VIA), and network hubs (XHub3), built on IP-based broadcast standards such as SMPTE 2110, PTP, and NMOS alongside legacy SDI. This is the class of gear that would carry an EVS-assigned Ethernet MAC in a production environment.

No CVE attributed specifically to EVS-designed hardware or protocols was found as of an August 2026 web search. EVS runs a public vulnerability disclosure program and has published customer-facing advisories addressing third-party component flaws in its product software stack — CVE-2022-42889 (Apache Commons Text "Text4Shell") and the 2024 XZ Utils backdoor — but neither is an EVS-attributed vulnerability.

IEEE assignment

2 prefixes → EVS Broadcast Equipment, registered Liège, Belgium [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 000341, the IEEE MA-L registry 001CF3

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); 2 full, independently-assigned IEEE prefixes, no shared-base sub-allocation [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 000341, the IEEE MA-L registry 001CF3

HQ / country

Liege Science Park, Rue Bois Saint Jean 13, Ougrée, Liège, BE B-4102 (registry address) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 000341

Registration date

Unknown — IEEE OUI data publishes no assignment/registration date; any third-party "date registered" is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, IEEE the IEEE MA-L registry column schema

Company status

Active; rebranding from "EVS Broadcast Equipment" to "EVS" [Confirmed] — https://news.evs.com/evs-evolves-its-brand-to-reflect-its-transformation-into-a-global-live-video-technology-leader/

Founded / ownership

Founded 1994 by Pierre L'Hoest and Laurent Minguet; publicly traded on Euronext Brussels; 800+ employees, 100+ countries [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVS_Broadcast_Equipment

Device types

Live-video production servers (XT-VIA, XS-VIA, XT-GO), replay/storytelling systems (LSM-VIA), network hubs (XHub3) [Confirmed] — https://evs.com/products/live-production-servers/xt-via, https://esbroadcast.com/product/evs-xhub3-network-hub/

Protocols / standards

Broadcast IP standards SMPTE 2110, PTP, NMOS alongside legacy SDI [Likely] — https://evs.com/products/xnet-via

Security history

No EVS-attributed CVE found as of an August 2026 search; formal vulnerability disclosure program; advisories issued for third-party component flaws (CVE-2022-42889 "Text4Shell", 2024 XZ Utils backdoor) [Confirmed] — https://evs.com/services/cyber-security/evs-security-updates-cve-2022-42889-vulnerability, https://evs.com/services/cyber-security/updates-xz-vulnerability, https://evs.com/services/cybersecurity/company-vulnerability-disclosure-policy

Verified sample prefixes

00:03:41, 00:1C:F3 (both MA-L, EVS Broadcast Equipment) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 000341, the IEEE MA-L registry 001CF3