SmarDTV Corporation holds 2 MA-L blocks (about 33.5 million addresses), 00:19:82 and B0:18:86, both registered to the same address at 147 Avenue du Jujubier, ZI Athelia IV, La Ciotat 13600. The registry rows carry the country code "CH," but the postal code 13600 is La Ciotat in Bouches-du-Rhône, France — a registrant-supplied data artifact in the IEEE record, not a genuine Swiss location. SmarDTV builds pay-TV hardware: Conditional Access Modules (CAMs), set-top boxes (DVB satellite/terrestrial, OTT, hybrid), and streaming devices, typically deployed by broadcasters and operators rather than sold as a retail brand. The corporate lineage matters for triage: the original SMARDTV SAS (French company no. 490222825, incorporated 2006 in La Ciotat) was a Kudelski Group subsidiary until 2018, when the CAM and set-top box businesses were transferred to SmarDTV Global, a Neotion affiliate; the original French entity was later liquidated and deregistered in 2024 while the SmarDTV Global brand and products continue. The devices integrate Nagravision conditional-access for content protection and present on a network as consumer/operator-class CE endpoints over Ethernet or Wi-Fi, not as infrastructure. For triage, a SmarDTV OUI (00:19:82 or B0:18:86) almost always identifies a pay-TV set-top box or CAM endpoint, expected in residential or hospitality environments, usually operator-supplied.
- IEEE assignment
- 2 prefixes → "SmarDTV Corporation" (00:19:82, B0:18:86), La Ciotat, France [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (oui.csv lines 59 and 31710)
- Registry / block size
- MA-L (24-bit OUI); 2 blocks (~33.5M addresses) [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv; maclookup.app (IEEE-sourced)
- HQ / country
- 147 Avenue du Jujubier, ZI Athelia IV, La Ciotat 13600, France. Registry country field reads "CH," but postal code 13600 is La Ciotat (Bouches-du-Rhône), France — a data artifact in the IEEE record. [Confirmed address; country Likely France] — IEEE MA-L, smardtv.com/about-us
- Company status
- SMARDTV SAS (French co. no. 490222825, incorporated 2006) was a Kudelski Group subsidiary until 2018; CAM/STB businesses transferred to SmarDTV Global (Neotion affiliate); original French entity liquidated and deregistered 2024; SmarDTV Global brand and products continue [Confirmed] — societe.com (490222825), nagra.com
- Device types
- pay-TV Conditional Access Modules (CAMs), set-top boxes (DVB satellite/terrestrial, OTT, hybrid), streaming dongles/pucks, home broadband gateways — operator/broadcaster-supplied CE endpoints [Confirmed] — smardtv.com/products-and-solutions/set-top-box, nagra.com
- Notable products
- pay-TV CAMs, operator set-top boxes; integrates Nagravision conditional-access (CAS) for content protection
- Verified prefix sample
- 00:19:82, B0:18:86 (both MA-L, SmarDTV Corporation) [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv
- MA-M / MA-S
- none — no SmarDTV entry in mam.csv (MA-M) or oui36.csv (MA-S) in the cached registries [Confirmed] — IEEE mam.csv, oui36.csv
- Security note
- SmarDTV devices are pay-TV endpoints (STBs, CAMs), not infrastructure. No SmarDTV-specific CVEs surfaced in this research pass; general Linux-based set-top-box class risks (e.g. exposed telnet, dated kernels) are documented for other vendors' DVB-T2 boxes, not SmarDTV specifically. [Unknown for SmarDTV-specific CVEs] — securityweek.com (DVB-T2 set-top box class)
- Special note
- OUI = operator/broadcaster-supplied gear. A SmarDTV OUI most often appears on a carrier- or broadcaster-deployed set-top box or CAM, not a retail-branded device. The IEEE registry publishes no assignment dates; third-party "date registered" values (e.g. 2006-09-03, 2018-03-05) are database artifacts, not IEEE facts. Registry country "CH" is a data artifact — the address is in France. [Confirmed]
- Related vendors
- Kudelski Group / Nagravision (former parent, supplies CAS); Neotion (current owner of SmarDTV Global)
- Analyst note
- A SmarDTV OUI (00:19:82 or B0:18:86) typically identifies a pay-TV set-top box or CAM. In a home or hospitality network this is an operator-supplied CE endpoint, low threat signal — not network infrastructure.