Lite-On Communications, Inc. — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address starting with 00:02:E3 or 00:A0:CC belongs to Lite-On Communications, Inc., a Milpitas, California hardware maker, most documented for PC and Macintosh Ethernet network interface adapters shipped in the 1990s and 2000s.

Both prefixes trace to the same registrant name (recorded as "LITE-ON Communications, Inc." and "LITE-ON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.," a case variant) at neighboring Milpitas street addresses. Holding two separate MA-L blocks, rather than one, is itself a signal this registrant is an operating company and not a bare shell registration.

Supporting that, a co-located grantee code, JSR ("Lite On Inc," Milpitas), has an active FCC equipment authorization on file for a "Pocket Computer" device, and a long-standing Ethernet vendor-code archive documents 00:A0:CC in period NIC hardware, including a MacSense-branded Mac Ethernet adapter — consistent with Lite-On's known role as an OEM NIC/chipset supplier of that era.

This registrant sits inside a larger, multi-entity Lite-On corporate family: the OUI registry lists roughly nine distinct Lite-On-branded registrant names in total. One of those, Liteon Technology Corporation, holds a separate MA-S sub-block carved from the shared 70:B3:D5 IEEE pool and is covered under its own, already-finalized entry — that block is not part of this registrant's assignment and should not be attributed here.

No CVE or malware association naming Lite-On Communications was found in an August 2026 search of NVD and general web sources. That is a sourced absence, not a certification of safety, and should be read as "no evidence found" rather than "verified clean."

IEEE assignment

0002E3, 00A0CC → Lite-On Communications, Inc. (case variants "LITE-ON Communications, Inc." / "LITE-ON COMMUNICATIONS, INC."), registered Milpitas, CA, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry OUI 0002E3, OUI 00A0CC

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); two IEEE prefixes held under this exact registrant name [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry OUI 0002E3, OUI 00A0CC. No MA-M or MA-S sub-block is registered under this exact name [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry (no matching rows)

HQ / country

736 S. Hillview Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035, US (OUI 0002E3); 720 S. Hillview Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035, US (OUI 00A0CC) — same street, differing street number [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry OUI 0002E3, OUI 00A0CC

Company status

not independently confirmed active or dissolved as a standalone legal entity; a co-located grantee ("Lite On Inc") has an active-looking FCC filing but current corporate status of "Lite-On Communications, Inc." specifically is unverified [Unknown] — fccid.io/JSR

Device types

Ethernet network interface adapters for PC and Macintosh systems (1990s–2000s era) [Likely] — cavebear.com Ethernet vendor-code archive

Notable products

MacSense-branded Macintosh Ethernet adapter cited as using the 00:A0:CC block [Likely] — cavebear.com Ethernet vendor-code archive

Verified sample prefixes (both MA-L, this registrant)

00:02:E3, 00:A0:CC [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry OUI 0002E3, OUI 00A0CC

Historic block

none identified pre-dating these two assignments; no earlier registration under this name was found [Unknown]

Special note

IEEE's public OUI data (the IEEE MA-L registry) carries no assignment/registration date column; any "date registered" figure from third-party lookup tools (e.g. maclookup.app showing an "Initial Registration" date for 0002E3) is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact, and is not reproduced here

[Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry; maclookup.app (third-party, not cited as an IEEE date)

Related vendors

Liteon Technology Corporation — separate sibling entity holding a distinct MA-S sub-block under the shared 70:B3:D5 IEEE base, covered in its own already-finalized entry (vendor-liteon); not part of this registrant's assignment [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-S registry OUI36 70B3D5073

Analyst note

a MAC beginning 00:02:E3 or 00:A0:CC identifies hardware registered specifically to Lite-On Communications, Inc. at these two assignment keys; it does not extend to other Lite-On-branded prefixes held by separate registrant entities, including the 70:B3:D5-based sub-block

[Likely] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-S registry