NEC Platforms, Ltd. — 16 prefixes (MA-L)

NEC Platforms, Ltd. holds 16 MA-L (24-bit OUI) blocks registered to "NEC Platforms, Ltd." in Japan. The company was formed on July 1, 2014 by merging four NEC hardware subsidiaries — NEC Infrontia, NEC Infrontia Tohoku, NEC Access Technica, and NEC Computertechno — into a single consolidated manufacturing arm of NEC Corporation, the Tokyo-headquartered IT and electronics multinational. That lineage explains why the 16 registry addresses span four sites: Shiba 4-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo (the most common, the current corporate address); Shimomata, Kakegawa, Shizuoka; Kandatsukasamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; and Kitamikata, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki — several predate the 2014 entity and were inherited from predecessor companies. The OUI-bearing hardware is dominated by NEC's Japan-domestic consumer and SOHO networking line: the Aterm broadband-router and wireless-LAN access-point family (e.g. WG1800HP, WX3600HP, mobile MR05LN), alongside enterprise unified-communications gear (IP-PBX, UNIVERGE IX routers, IP-DECT access points such as the AP400S), POS terminals, servers, storage, and in-vehicle and satellite hardware. A consolidated vendor entry is more useful than 16 near-identical per-prefix pages. One operational caveat worth surfacing: the Aterm consumer router series carries an active CVE history — NEC's NV26-001 advisory (March 2026) covers five CVEs across 21 Aterm models — and all publicly disclosed Aterm vulnerabilities to date require LAN-side access rather than direct WAN exploitation, so they matter most once a network perimeter is already compromised. As with all OUI data, the per-prefix "registration dates" shown by third-party MAC lookup tools are database artifacts, not IEEE facts; IEEE publishes no OUI registration dates.

IEEE assignment

16 prefixes → NEC Platforms, Ltd., registered Japan [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (IEEE MA-L)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); 16 IEEE prefixes. No MA-M or MA-S (oui36) entries found. [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry. NOTE: IEEE's public OUI data publishes NO assignment/registration date (the IEEE MA-L registry columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address); any "date registered" on third-party tools is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact. The 1998–2025 per-prefix dates in MAC lookup databases are scraped artifacts, and some predate the 2014 founding (inherited from predecessor entities).

HQ / country

Japan; primary registry address 14-1, Shiba 4-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8556, JP. Three other registry addresses appear: Shimomata, Kakegawa, Shizuoka 436-8501; Kandatsukasamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8532; Kitamikata, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki 213-8511.

[Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L, https://www.necplatforms.co.jp/en/company/profile.html

Company status

active [Confirmed] — https://www.necplatforms.co.jp/en/index.html

Parent company

NEC Corporation (Tokyo-headquartered Japanese IT and electronics multinational) [Confirmed] — https://www.necplatforms.co.jp/en/company/profile.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC

Established

July 1, 2014, by merging NEC Infrontia, NEC Infrontia Tohoku, NEC Access Technica, and NEC Computertechno [Confirmed] — https://www.necplatforms.co.jp/en/press/201405/20140527_01.html

Device types

Aterm broadband routers (WG1800HP, WX3600HP, WX3000HP); mobile Wi-Fi routers (MR05LN); wireless-LAN access points; IP-DECT access points (AP400S, AP20 series); IP-PBX / key telephone systems; UNIVERGE IX routers; POS terminals; servers and storage; in-vehicle and satellite/space communications hardware

[Confirmed] — https://www.necplatforms.co.jp/en/press/201405/20140527_01.html, vendor product listings

Notable products

Aterm router/AP line; UNIVERGE enterprise networking and IP-PBX

Verified sample prefixes (all MA-L, NEC Platforms, Ltd.)

6C:E4:DA, 00:60:B9, 00:0D:02, A4:12:42 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (IEEE MA-L)

Security context

Aterm consumer/SOHO router series has an active CVE history. NEC advisory NV26-001 (March 2026) covers 5 CVEs across 21 Aterm models — including CVE-2026-4309 (authorization bypass, CVSS 6.3 Medium), CVE-2026-4619 (path traversal / remote file overwrite), CVE-2026-4620 and CVE-2026-4622 (OS command injection), CVE-2026-4621 (hidden functionality enabling telnet); 12 of 21 models patched, 9 EOL requiring replacement. Earlier: CVE-2023-3741 and CVE-2024-3016 (UNIVERGE DT900/DT900S). All publicly disclosed Aterm vulnerabilities require LAN-side access (not direct WAN exploitation). [Confirmed] — https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4309, https://www.sentinelone.com/vulnerability-database/cve-2026-4309/, https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-4621/

Allocated date

Unknown — IEEE publishes no OUI registration dates; not fabricated [Unknown] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Analyst note

An NEC Platforms OUI on a globally-administered address identifies genuine NEC hardware, predominantly Japan-market Aterm consumer/SOHO networking gear. The vendor's address spread across four sites reflects its 2014 consolidation of four predecessor subsidiaries, so older prefixes were inherited rather than freshly registered by the 2014 entity.