Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd. — 3 prefixes (MA-L)

A MAC address starting with B8:20:8E, 4C:36:4E, or BC:3E:0B was assigned to Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd., a Japan-based enterprise-hardware company whose product lines include TOUGHBOOK rugged laptops/tablets, professional projectors and broadcast cameras, and point-of-sale/restaurant-technology terminals. No aggregator or registry source distinguishes which specific product line each of the three individual prefixes feeds, so the identification is at the company level rather than a named device model.

Panasonic Connect was established April 1, 2022 as one of the operating companies formed when Panasonic Holdings Corporation restructured into a holding-company group. It reports roughly 28,500 employees and FY2023 revenue of JPY 1,125.7 billion, organized into Process Automation, Media Entertainment, Mobile Solutions, and Gemba Solutions divisions, with named subsidiaries Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Zetes Industries, and Blue Yonder. This is a substantive, identifiable company, not a bare single-OUI shell.

All three prefixes are standalone MA-L (/24) blocks registered to the identical address in Fukuoka, Japan — none is a sub-allocation of a shared IEEE-administered base, and no matching MA-M or MA-S assignments exist for this registrant. The same street address is also used by two separately-registered legacy entities in the IEEE registry, "Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd." and "Panasonic Entertainment & Communication Co., Ltd."; their OUI blocks are distinct assignments and are not part of this entry's prefix set.

IEEE's public OUI registry publishes no assignment or registration date for any MAC prefix. A third-party aggregator shows scrape-derived timestamps for B8:20:8E that are database artifacts of that site's own crawl, not IEEE facts, and are not presented here as an IEEE registration date. Security context: a CVE affecting the Linux kernel's panasonic-laptop.c platform driver concerns legacy TOUGHBOOK hardware predating this entity's 2022 spinout, not these OUI blocks specifically, and no malware or botnet association was found as of an August 2026 search.

IEEE assignment

3 prefixes → Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd., registered Fukuoka, JP [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry B8208E, the IEEE MA-L registry 4C364E, the IEEE MA-L registry BC3E0B — IEEE MA-L

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); 3 standalone assignments; no MA-M or MA-S assignments found under this registrant [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry B8208E, the IEEE MA-L registry 4C364E, the IEEE MA-L registry BC3E0B; the IEEE MA-M registry (no match); the IEEE MA-S registry (no match)

HQ / registered address

4-1-62 Minoshima, Hakata-ku Fukuoka-shi Fukuoka JP 812-8531 (same for all 3 blocks; corporate HQ is Tokyo, Japan) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry B8208E, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_Connect

Company status / founding

Active; established April 1, 2022 as an operating company in the Panasonic Group holding-company restructuring [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_Connect, https://connect.na.panasonic.com/

Company scale

~28,500 employees; FY2023 revenue JPY 1,125.7 billion [Likely] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_Connect

Business divisions / subsidiaries

Process Automation, Media Entertainment, Mobile Solutions (TOUGHBOOK), Gemba Solutions; subsidiaries Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Zetes Industries, Blue Yonder [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_Connect, https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook

Device types

Company-level product lines only — TOUGHBOOK rugged laptops/tablets/handhelds, professional projectors and broadcast cameras, POS/restaurant-technology terminals; no source ties an individual prefix to a specific model [Likely] — https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook

Date registered

Unknown / not applicable — IEEE's public the IEEE MA-L registry has no date field. maclookup.app shows a scrape-derived timestamp for B8:20:8E; this is that site's own crawl artifact, not an IEEE fact, and is not attributed to IEEE [Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/macaddress/b8208e

IANA reference

none — not applicable to IEEE OUI registrations [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Security context

CVE-2024-46859 (Linux kernel panasonic-laptop.c out-of-bounds array access, CVSS 7.8, local low-privilege attacker) affects legacy TOUGHBOOK models predating the 2022 Connect entity spinout; not tied to these OUI blocks specifically. No malware or botnet association found as of an August 2026 search

[Confirmed] — https://feedly.com/cve/CVE-2024-46859, https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook/support/security-updates

Related registry entries (same address, distinct OUIs, do not conflate)

"Panasonic Communications Co., Ltd." and "Panasonic Entertainment & Communication Co., Ltd." [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry