OUI 00:0C:D6 is registered to "PARTNER TECH" in the IEEE MA-L registry, at 10F, No. 233-2, Pao Chiao Road, Shin Tien, Taipei, Taiwan. The registrant is Partner Tech Corp. (拍档科技股份有限公司), a Taiwan-based manufacturer of point-of-sale (POS) hardware founded in 1990 and headquartered in the Xindian District of New Taipei City. Partner Tech joined the Qisda Corporation group (part of the BenQ Group) in 2014. Its product line centers on PC-based and Android/Windows all-in-one POS terminals, self-service and self-checkout kiosks, mobile POS and ordering devices, mobile and industrial computers, and POS peripherals such as thermal printers, barcode scanners, keyboards, and pole displays — plus a cloud device-management platform. Primary markets are retail (hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores, malls) and hospitality (restaurants, hotels, casinos, cruise lines), with additional reach into healthcare and industrial/enterprise. A device with this OUI on a network is therefore most plausibly a commercial POS terminal or kiosk rather than consumer hardware, so its natural habitat is a retail/hospitality LAN segment dedicated to POS and kiosk workloads. As with the wider POS/self-checkout device class, the main security concern is payment-data exposure on under-patched, internet-adjacent terminals rather than any Partner Tech-specific flaw — no Partner Tech-specific CVEs or disclosed vulnerabilities surfaced in this research pass. The IEEE publishes no allocation date for MAC/OUI blocks, so any "registration date" shown by third-party lookup tools (e.g. maclookup.app: April 2003 / November 2015) is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact.
- IEEE assignment
- 00:0C:D6 → PARTNER TECH (MA-L), registered Taipei, Taiwan [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv, line 665)
- Registry / block size
- MA-L (24-bit OUI, ~16.7M addresses); single prefix 00:0C:D6 [Confirmed] — maclookup.app (https://maclookup.app/macaddress/000CD6). NOTE: IEEE's public OUI data publishes NO assignment/registration date; any "date registered" on third-party tools is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact.
- Registry address / country
- 10F, No. 233-2, Pao Chiao Road, Shin Tien, Taipei, TW 231 [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L
- Company / common name
- Partner Tech Corp. (拍档科技股份有限公司) [Confirmed] — https://www.partnertechcorp.com/us/about/Company-Overview/
- Company status
- active [Confirmed] — https://www.partnertechcorp.com/
- Founded
- 1990 [Confirmed] — https://www.partnertechcorp.com/us/about/Company-Overview/
- HQ location
- New Taipei City (Xindian District), Taiwan [Confirmed] — https://www.partnertechcorp.com/us/about/Company-Overview/
- Parent company
- Qisda Corporation (BenQ Group); Partner Tech joined the Qisda group in 2014 [Confirmed] — https://www.partnertechcorp.com/apac/about/partner-tech-group/
- Device types
- PC-based and Android/Windows all-in-one POS terminals; self-service kiosks; self-checkout (SCO) systems; mobile POS / ordering terminals; mobile and industrial computers; POS peripherals (thermal printers, barcode scanners, keyboards, pole displays); kitchen display systems; digital signage; cloud device management [Confirmed] — https://www.partnertechcorp.com/products-overview/
- Primary industries
- retail (hypermarkets, supermarkets, convenience stores, malls), hospitality (restaurants, hotels, casinos, cruise lines, entertainment), healthcare, industrial/enterprise [Confirmed] — https://www.partnertechcorp.com/industry/
- Website
- https://www.partnertechcorp.com/ [Confirmed] — https://www.partnertechcorp.com/
- Network context
- expected on commercial retail/hospitality LANs (wired Ethernet or managed Wi-Fi segments for POS and kiosk workloads); appearance on a home or general corporate network is unusual and worth investigating [Likely] — https://www.partnertechcorp.com/us/about/Company-Overview/
- Security context
- no Partner Tech-specific CVEs or disclosed vulnerabilities found this pass; general POS/self-checkout risk class applies — payment-card data exfiltration from under-patched Windows/Android terminals, weak network segmentation allowing POS-LAN pivot, and supply-chain exposure on open-architecture terminals; Partner Tech markets AI-based fraud prevention and a Cloud Device Management (CDM) platform for remote monitoring [Likely] — https://onsecurity.io/article/why-enforcing-pos-system-cybersecurity-for-retail-and-e-commerce-is-critical/, https://www.partnertechcorp.com/products-detail/cloud-device-management/
- Allocation date
- Unknown — IEEE publishes none; third-party scrapes (maclookup.app: "registered 11 Apr 2003, updated 17 Nov 2015") are database artifacts, not IEEE facts [Unknown] — https://maclookup.app/macaddress/000CD6
- Analyst note
- a globally-administered 00:0C:D6 address reliably identifies Partner Tech POS/kiosk hardware; treat it as a commercial endpoint and confirm it belongs to a known POS deployment, not the consumer/BYOD segment.