Global Village Communication, Inc. — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

Global Village Communication, Inc. held two separate IEEE MA-L blocks (00:02:88 and 00:20:88), both registered to the same Sunnyvale, CA address, a pattern that distinguishes it from a bare single-OUI shell registration. The company was a Mountain View, CA-founded (June 1989) maker of fax/data modems built specifically for the Apple Macintosh platform, shipping under the TelePort line of external desktop modems (some connecting via the Mac's ADB port) and the PowerPort line of internal PowerBook modems. As Mac sales softened in the mid-1990s, Global Village was acquired by Boca Research in June 1998; Boca Research subsequently sold the Global Village product line and brand to Zoom Telephonics in 2000, after which the brand was discontinued and support ended. A loosely-associated security record exists: IBM X-Force Exchange's entry #3320 ("Global Village modem denial of service") maps to CVE-1999-1228, but NVD's canonical description for that CVE is generic to "various modems" of that era and does not name Global Village specifically, so the vendor-specific link should be treated as weak corroboration rather than a confirmed vendor-specific vulnerability.

IEEE assignment

two MA-L blocks, 00-02-88 and 00-20-88, both → "GLOBAL VILLAGE COMMUNICATION" [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-L registry (cross-checked against the Wireshark manufacturer database, the Wireshark manufacturer database)

Registered address

1144 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, US 94086 (minor "Avenue"/"Ave." formatting variance between the two block records; same physical address) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

MA-M / MA-S allocations

none found for this org [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

Registration date

not recorded — IEEE's public the IEEE MA-L registry publishes no assignment/registration-date field; a third-party tool (maclookup.app) shows a scraped "22 April 1998" date for this vendor, which per project convention is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact, and is not recorded here

[Confirmed] — no citation (absence documented, not fabricated)

Company identity / substance

Global Village Communication, Inc., founded June 1989, Mountain View, CA; maker of Macintosh-platform fax/data modems (TelePort external series, PowerPort internal PowerBook series)

[Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Village_Communication, https://www.computerhope.com/comp/global_village.htm

Company status

defunct — acquired by Boca Research (June 1998); Boca Research sold the Global Village division/brand to Zoom Telephonics (2000); brand discontinued, no longer supported [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Village_Communication

Device/product context

TelePort (desktop external modems, some via Mac ADB port) and PowerPort (internal PowerBook modems) [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Village_Communication, http://modems.globalvillage.com/support/softwarelocator.html

Security context

IBM X-Force entry #3320 ("Global Village modem denial of service") is mapped to CVE-1999-1228, but NVD's own description of CVE-1999-1228 is generic to "various modems" without guard-time enforcement and does not name Global Village in the description text — weak, not vendor-confirmed corroboration

[Likely, single-thread corroboration] — https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3320, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1228

Related vendors

Boca Research (acquirer, 1998); Zoom Telephonics (acquired Global Village division/brand, 2000) [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Village_Communication