NETGEAR holds roughly 76 MA-L blocks registered simply as "NETGEAR." The registered address sits in San Jose, CA, and legitimately varies between blocks — different registrations list 350 East Plumeria Drive and 3553 N. First Street, both San Jose addresses for the same company rather than two different companies. These OUIs cover NETGEAR's consumer and prosumer range: Nighthawk routers, Orbi mesh systems, ProSAFE/AV switches, ReadyNAS storage, and cable modems. The brand maps cleanly to the device maker, so a NETGEAR OUI reliably identifies NETGEAR networking gear with no chipset-vs-brand ambiguity. For triage, a NETGEAR OUI is consumer/prosumer networking equipment; on an enterprise segment an unmanaged NETGEAR router or access point should be treated as a probable rogue device and checked against sanctioned inventory.
- IEEE assignment
- ~76 prefixes → NETGEAR, registered San Jose, CA, US [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L
- Registry / block size
- MA-L; ~76 blocks [Confirmed assignment] — maclookup.app (IEEE-derived; count is a current third-party snapshot and drifts). NOTE: IEEE's public OUI data publishes NO assignment/registration date (oui.csv columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address); any "date registered" from third-party tools is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact.
- HQ / country
- San Jose, CA, US — different blocks list 350 East Plumeria Drive, San Jose CA 95134 and 3553 N. First Street, San Jose CA 95134 [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L
- Company status
- active [Confirmed] — netgear.com
- Device types
- consumer/prosumer routers, Wi-Fi systems, switches, NAS, cable modems [Confirmed] — maclookup.app
- Notable products
- Nighthawk routers, Orbi mesh, ReadyNAS storage, ProSAFE/AV switches, cable modems
- Verified prefix sample
- A0:63:91, E0:46:EE, 40:5D:82 [Confirmed] — maclookup.app
- Special note
- NETGEAR blocks legitimately list two different San Jose registered addresses (350 East Plumeria Drive and 3553 N. First Street) for the same company — a campus/address change within San Jose, not two companies. (Direction/chronology not asserted: IEEE publishes no per-block dates.) [Confirmed] — maclookup.app
- Related vendors
- none major for OUI purposes
- Analyst note
- A NETGEAR OUI is consumer/prosumer networking gear; on enterprise segments treat an unmanaged NETGEAR router/AP as a probable rogue device.