NovAtel Inc. — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address starting 00:60:D6 or 00:21:66 belongs to NovAtel Inc., a Calgary, Alberta, Canada manufacturer of GNSS/GPS OEM receiver boards, antennas, and enclosures, typically seen on its OEM6 and OEM7-series positioning receivers used in surveying, GIS mapping, precision-agriculture machine guidance, port automation, and aviation ground-reference networks.

NovAtel holds two separate IEEE MA-L (24-bit) OUI blocks under the registered name "NovAtel Inc.," both with Calgary, Alberta addresses: Suite 200, 6715 - 8th Street NE for 00:60:D6, and 1120 - 68 Ave NE for 00:21:66. Two independently assigned blocks, rather than one, point to a real, ongoing manufacturer rather than a single-OUI shell registration.

The company was founded in the 1970s and has operated since 2007 as part of Hexagon AB, following Hexagon's public acquisition of NovAtel (reported at USD 50 per share); it now markets under the "Hexagon | NovAtel" name. NovAtel's OEM7 receiver line documents onboard 10/100-Base-T Ethernet with IPv4/TCP/IP and Telnet support — network-connected hardware consistent with needing assigned MAC blocks — though NovAtel's own documentation does not name these specific prefixes.

Third-party OUI databases display "registered" dates for these blocks (around 2008 for 00:21:66 and 1998 for 00:60:D6), but IEEE's public OUI records carry no assignment-date field, so treat any such date as a third-party artifact rather than an IEEE fact. No CVE or malware association tied to these OUI blocks or NovAtel receivers was found as of an August 2026 search; NovAtel's published security content instead concerns GNSS signal spoofing and jamming, a radio-frequency threat unrelated to the network layer.

Vendor

NovAtel Inc., operating as "Hexagon | NovAtel" (division of Hexagon AB since 2007)

Device class

GNSS/GPS OEM receiver boards, antennas, and enclosures — OEM6/OEM7 series

OUI prefixes

00:60:D6, 00:21:66 (both MA-L / 24-bit)

Also seen on

survey and GIS mapping equipment, precision-agriculture guidance systems, port automation, and aviation ground-reference networks (novatel.com)

Company status

active; acquired by Hexagon AB in 2007

IEEE assignment

two prefixes (00:60:D6, 00:21:66) → NovAtel Inc., registered Calgary, Alberta, CA [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0060D6, the IEEE MA-L registry 002166

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) x2 blocks; no MA-M or MA-S assignments found for this registrant [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0060D6, the IEEE MA-L registry 002166

HQ / country

Calgary, Alberta, Canada — registered addresses: Suite 200, 6715 - 8th Street NE, Calgary, Alberta T2E 8M4 (00:60:D6); 1120 - 68 Ave NE, Calgary, Alberta T2E 8S5 (00:21:66) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0060D6, the IEEE MA-L registry 002166

Company status

active — operates as "Hexagon | NovAtel", a division of Hexagon AB since Hexagon's 2007 acquisition of NovAtel [Confirmed] — https://novatel.com/about-us/company-overview, https://hexagon.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/2007/hexagon-to-acquire-leading-gnss-provider

Device types

GNSS/GPS OEM receiver boards, antennas, enclosures [Confirmed] — https://novatel.com/about-us/company-overview

Notable products

OEM6 and OEM7 GNSS receiver series; GRIT spoofing-detection toolkit [Confirmed] — https://novatel.com/products/grit/gnss-spoofing-detection

Verified sample prefixes (both MA-L, NovAtel Inc.)

00:60:D6, 00:21:66 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry 0060D6, the IEEE MA-L registry 002166; corroborated by two independent third-party OUI lookups [Likely] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/novatel-inc, https://macverify.com/vendor/novatel-inc

Third-party date caveat

maclookup.app shows per-prefix "registered" dates (00:21:66 ≈ 2008-10-25; 00:60:D6 ≈ 1998-04-22), but IEEE's public OUI data (the IEEE MA-L registry: Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) carries no assignment-date field — treat any such date as a third-party database artifact, not an IEEE fact

[Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/novatel-inc

Usage context

OEM6/OEM7 receivers document onboard 10/100-Base-T Ethernet with IPv4/TCP/IP and Telnet support, consistent with hardware needing assigned MAC blocks; NovAtel's documentation does not itself name these specific prefixes

[Likely] — https://docs.novatel.com/OEM7/Content/ReceiverOperation/EthernetCommunication.htm

Security note

no CVE or malware/botnet association found tied to NovAtel receivers or these OUI blocks as of an August 2026 search; NovAtel's published security content addresses GNSS signal spoofing/jamming, not network-layer vulnerabilities

[Likely] — https://novatel.com/support/bulletins-alerts-release-notices/technical-update-gnss-spoofing-attacks-in-ukraine

Related vendors

Hexagon AB (parent company since 2007) [Confirmed] — https://hexagon.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/2007/hexagon-to-acquire-leading-gnss-provider

Analyst note

two independently assigned MA-L blocks under one company name plus documented Ethernet-enabled receiver hardware indicate a genuine manufacturer registration, not a single-OUI shell; neither prefix is part of a shared IEEE-RA sub-allocated base such as 70:B3:D5.