Soronti, Inc. — KVM-over-IP hardware (MA-L, acquired by Avocent)

Soronti, Inc. was a Draper, Utah hardware startup (founded 1993) that built "virtual presence" KVM-over-IP technology — a PCI adapter and a stand-alone unit that let administrators reach legacy analog KVM switches remotely over IP, with seven patents pending on the underlying approach. The IEEE cached registry confirms two 24-bit (MA-L) OUI blocks registered directly to "Soronti, Inc." at the same Draper business-park address, and a third-party aggregator additionally attributes a legacy IAB assignment to the company, consistent with a small hardware vendor holding more than one allocation rather than a single bare registration. Soronti's independent life was short: Avocent Corporation announced its acquisition on 2003-11-04 and closed the deal on 2003-11-19 for roughly $7 million, per SEC filings, after which Avocent itself was later folded into Emerson Network Power / Vertiv. Soronti has not existed as a standalone company for over two decades, so any device still presenting one of these OUIs is legacy hardware, not an active vendor with a current support channel.

Registry entries

MA-L 00:0E:3F and MA-L 00:05:C2, both registered to "Soronti, Inc." at 12159 Business Park Dr, Suite 140, Draper, UT 84020, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-L registry

Additional legacy assignment

IAB 00:50:C2:1E:4 attributed to Soronti, Inc. per third-party aggregation; not present in the cached MA-L/MA-S registry snapshots checked (the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry), consistent with it being a pre-2021 IAB block outside those files' scope

[Likely] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/soronti-inc

MA-M / MA-S assignments

none found for Soronti in the cached the IEEE MA-M registry or the IEEE MA-S registry registries [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

Company identity & product

Soronti, Inc., founded 1993, Draper, Utah — developed KVM-over-IP "virtual presence" hardware (a PCI adapter and a stand-alone unit) enabling remote IP access to legacy analog KVM switches; seven patents pending [Confirmed] — https://company-histories.com/Avocent-Corporation-Company-History.html

Acquisition

acquired by Avocent Corporation for ~$7 million; announced 2003-11-04, closed 2003-11-19; Avocent was later absorbed into Emerson Network Power / Vertiv; Soronti is defunct as an independent entity with no current standalone site [Confirmed] — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001109808/000089109203003133/e16116ex99_6.txt, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001109808/000110465904007200/a04-3120_110k.htm

date_registered

Unknown — IEEE publishes no assignment/registration date for MA-L entries and the cached the IEEE MA-L registry has no date column. A third-party aggregator (maclookup.app) surfaces per-prefix "first seen" dates (2001-06-04, 2004-02-12, 2011-02-21) and a "last modified" date (2015-11-17), but these are database-indexing artifacts of that tool, not IEEE facts, and are not recorded as a registration date here

[Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/soronti-inc

iana_reference

Not applicable / blank — no IANA RFC reference field exists for OUI/MAC vendor registry entries

Security context

no CVEs, advisories, or documented vulnerabilities found tied to Soronti's KVM-over-IP hardware; product line is legacy 2000s-era and long absorbed into Avocent/Vertiv — recorded as not-found rather than confirmed-absent [Unknown] —