Portwell holds a single MA-L block — 00:90:FB (about 16.8 million addresses) — registered as "PORTWELL, INC." at 7F-4, No. 160, Sec. 6, Taipei, Taiwan; the company's U.S. arm, American Portwell Technology, operates from Fremont, California, but no separate "American Portwell" IEEE registrant surfaced, so this Taiwan HQ block covers the brand. These OUIs appear on industrial PCs, embedded single-board computers, COM modules, network-security appliances, and edge-computing platforms. Portwell is a peer to Advantech, Kontron, ADLINK, Axiomtek, IEI, and AAEON. The key analyst point is that a Portwell OUI maps cleanly to the Portwell brand. For triage, a 00:90:FB device is almost certainly Portwell industrial or embedded hardware — an industrial PC, network appliance, or COM-module-based system — not a consumer device.
- IEEE assignment
- 1 prefix → "PORTWELL, INC." (00:90:FB), Taipei, Taiwan [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L
- Registry / block size
- MA-L; 1 block (~16.8M addresses) [Confirmed] — maclookup.app (IEEE-sourced)
- HQ / country
- 7F-4, No. 160, Sec. 6, Taipei, Taiwan (registered); U.S. arm American Portwell Technology in Fremont, CA [Confirmed] — maclookup.app
- Company status
- active; Portwell is the industrial-computing brand, American Portwell Technology its U.S. arm [Likely] — portwell.com
- Device types
- industrial PCs, embedded SBCs/boards, COM modules, network-security appliances, edge-computing platforms [Confirmed] — maclookup.app
- Notable products
- industrial PCs, COM modules, network/security appliances, edge platforms
- Verified prefix
- 00:90:FB (MA-L) [Confirmed] — maclookup.app
- Special note
- Only one legacy OUI on file under the Taiwan HQ entity; no separate "American Portwell" IEEE registrant surfaced. Peer to Advantech/Kontron/ADLINK/Axiomtek/IEI/AAEON. The IEEE registry publishes no assignment dates, so none is stated here. [Confirmed]
- Related vendors
- Advantech, Kontron, ADLINK, Axiomtek, IEI, AAEON (embedded/industrial-computing peers)
- Analyst note
- A 00:90:FB device is almost certainly Portwell industrial/embedded hardware — an industrial PC, network appliance, or COM-module-based system, not a consumer device.