Polaroid Corporation — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

Polaroid Corporation holds two MA-L OUI blocks — 00:04:48 and 00:40:F7 — both registered to the same legacy address, 300 Baker Avenue, Concord, MA, US 01742. There are no MA-M or MA-S entries for the vendor, so two consolidated prefixes cover its entire IEEE footprint. The two blocks map to two different sides of Polaroid's hardware history: 00:04:48 sits with the consumer-electronics line, while 00:40:F7 is labelled "Polaroid Medical Imaging Sys" in third-party MAC databases, consistent with the company's dental and healthcare imaging division. A registration nuance matters for any asset-classification work here: the original Polaroid Corporation that holds these IEEE blocks (founded 1937 in Cambridge, MA by Edwin Land, instant-photography pioneer) filed Chapter 11 in October 2001 and again in December 2008, after which the brand was licensed extensively to third-party manufacturers. The modern instant-photography brand, Polaroid B.V. of the Netherlands (formerly The Impossible Project, rebranded 2020), is a legally distinct entity that does not hold these registrations. Consequently a Polaroid OUI on a device says far more about the brand on the box than about who manufactured it: WiFi IP cameras (IP-100W/101W/200W), Android tablets (PMID4312), the SC1630 smart camera, the licensed Hoop security camera (C+A Global, 2017), and dental wireless intraoral cameras all carry the Polaroid name from different licensees. Note that no IEEE registration dates exist for either block — IEEE publishes none, and the "first seen" dates on third-party lookup tools are database artifacts.

IEEE assignment

2 prefixes → Polaroid Corporation, 300 Baker Avenue, Concord, MA, US 01742 [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (lines 29437, 29999)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) for both 00:04:48 and 00:40:F7 (~16.7M addresses each); no MA-M/MA-S entries (no the IEEE MA-M registry or the IEEE MA-S registry hit) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

HQ / country

300 Baker Avenue, Concord, MA, US 01742 (registry address) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

Company status

original Polaroid Corporation defunct (Chapter 11 Oct 2001, again Dec 2008); brand now licensed; modern instant-photography brand Polaroid B.V. (Netherlands) is a legally distinct entity that does NOT hold these OUIs

[Confirmed] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_B.V.

Prefix 00

40:F7: labelled "Polaroid Medical Imaging Sys" in third-party MAC databases, consistent with Polaroid's dental/healthcare imaging division [Likely] — maclookup.app/vendors/polaroid-corporation, svn.nmap.org/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes (third-party label, not directly verified from IEEE RA)

Device types

consumer electronics (instant/digital cameras, Android tablets, WiFi IP surveillance cameras) and dental/medical imaging hardware (wireless intraoral cameras) [Confirmed] — deviceatlas.com/device-data/devices/polaroid

Notable products

IP-100W/IP-101W/IP-200W wireless surveillance cameras; SC1630 Android smart camera; PMID4312 Android tablet; Hoop 1080p WiFi camera (licensee C+A Global, 2017); Polaroid HealthCare P720 wireless intraoral camera [Confirmed] — prnewswire.com (Hoop), amazon.com listings, myrfamerica.com (intraoral)

No IEEE date

IEEE public OUI data (the IEEE MA-L registry: Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) carries NO registration date; third-party "first seen" dates (maclookup.app: 00:40:F7 2000-11-09, 00:04:48 2000-12-04, last-modified 2015-11-17) are database artifacts, not IEEE facts

[Confirmed] — maclookup.app/vendors/polaroid-corporation

Security context

Polaroid-branded networked devices split into consumer IoT (EoL firmware, possible default credentials, unpatched Android base on 2013–2017 cameras/tablets) and dental/medical IoT (intraoral cameras in clinical settings, elevated risk if not VLAN-isolated). No named CVEs for Polaroid-branded devices found this pass; device quality varies by licensee

[Likely] — prnewswire.com, myrfamerica.com

Analyst note

a Polaroid OUI identifies the brand, not the manufacturer — the original corporation is defunct and the name is widely licensed; OUI alone says little about firmware provenance or current vendor support.