Viasat, Incorporated — 00:A0:BC, 58:68:61 (MA-L)

Viasat, Incorporated (Carlsbad, CA, US; NASDAQ: VSAT) holds two MA-L blocks in the cached registry — 00:A0:BC and 58:68:61 — both registered to "VIASAT, INCORPORATED" at the same Carlsbad address. Founded in 1986, Viasat designs and operates a Ka-band satellite constellation (ViaSat-1/2/3) and ships satellite broadband modems, in-flight Wi-Fi hardware, VSAT network equipment, and secure military communications gear, giving this two-OUI registration substantial device and business corroboration beyond a bare IEEE listing. The registry also surfaces a second, unrelated organization sharing the "Viasat" brand name: Viasat Group S.p.A. of Venaria Reale/Turin, Italy, holding a single distinct MA-L block, 5C:00:38. That is an Italian automotive-telematics company (satellite/IoT vehicle-tracking devices for fleet and insurance use, acquired by Targa Telematics in 2023) with no apparent corporate relationship to the US satellite-communications company. This entry treats the bare "vendor-viasat" slug as covering the US entity only, since it is the closer bare-name match and carries the stronger, better-documented public profile.

Primary OUIs / org

00:A0:BC and 58:68:61 → "VIASAT, INCORPORATED" [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (MA-L, the IEEE MA-L registry snapshot)

Registered address

6155 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA, US, 92009 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Registry class

MA-L (24-bit OUI); no MA-M or MA-S matches for "Viasat" in the cached the IEEE MA-M registry/oui36.csv [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

Assignment/registration date

Unknown — IEEE's public OUI data (the IEEE MA-L registry: Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) publishes no assignment date; not fabricated [Confirmed as absence] — https://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv

Third-party "registration date" artifacts (NOT IEEE facts)

maclookup.app shows an indexed 2015-11-17 timestamp for 00:A0:BC and a "registered 2023-03-30" artifact for 58:68:61 — crawl/indexing dates, not IEEE registration dates [Confirmed-as-displayed / Unknown-as-IEEE-fact] — https://maclookup.app/macaddress/00A0BC/mac-address-details, https://maclookup.app/macaddress/586861

Company status

active, publicly traded (NASDAQ: VSAT), founded 1986 [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_(American_company)

Business lines / device types

Ka-band satellite constellation (ViaSat-1/2/3), satellite broadband modems, in-flight Wi-Fi, military secure communications, VSAT network equipment [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_(American_company), https://help.viasat.com/s/article/MAC-address-and-account-number

Security context

on 2022-02-24, an attacker exploited a VPN-appliance misconfiguration to reach Viasat's KA-SAT network management segment and pushed the "AcidRain" wiper, destroying flash storage on tens of thousands of consumer satellite modems; attributed to Russian GRU by the EU and Five Eyes on 2022-05-10 [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_hack, https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/acidrain-a-modem-wiper-rains-down-on-europe/, https://www.viasat.com/perspectives/corporate/2022/ka-sat-network-cyber-attack-overview/

Related but distinct registration (separate company, not folded in)

5C:00:38 → "Viasat Group S.p.A.", Via Aosta 23, Venaria Reale, Torino, IT, 10078, MA-L — an unrelated Italian automotive/IoT telematics company, acquired by Targa Telematics in 2023 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, https://targatelematics.com/about/about-us/

Already in oui-master

false [Confirmed] — this site's own enrichment records (no existing row for vendor-viasat)

Ambiguity note

three MA-L blocks match "Viasat" in the registry across two distinct legal entities; this entry (vendor-viasat) covers only the US company's 00:A0:BC and 58:68:61, per the vendor-unisys precedent of the closest bare-name match owning the primary slug [Likely] — /mac/vendor/unisys.CHECK/