ZTE Corporation — 493 prefixes (MA-L), plus one MA-M subsidiary block

ZTE Corporation is a major Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker (founded 1985, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong) that holds 493 MA-L OUI blocks in the IEEE registry under the organization name "zte corporation," registered to 12/F., ZTE R&D Building, Kejinan Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 518057. A handful of older blocks carry legacy registry addresses (the "ZTE Plaza, Keji Road South" and a bare "Technology Management Department" variant), but they are the same legal entity. One MA-M (28-bit) block, prefix AC:64:DD:5, is registered separately to the subsidiary "SHANGHAI ZTE TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD" in Shanghai; no ZTE-named organization holds any MA-S (36-bit) block. The large footprint reflects ZTE's product breadth: carrier wireless and optical transport, 5G radios, GPON/XGS-PON ONTs and broadband CPE, 4G/5G routers and indoor units, enterprise switches, and consumer smartphones — which is why a single consolidated vendor entry is far more useful than minting hundreds of per-prefix pages. Two caveats dominate any ZTE OUI work. First, IEEE publishes no registration dates; third-party lookup sites that show values like "23 September 2005" are surfacing database artifacts, not IEEE facts, and those dates must never be presented as authoritative. Second, ZTE carries substantial regulatory weight in Western markets: it sits on the FCC Covered List as a national-security risk (2020), new US equipment authorizations have been banned since the 2022 rule (effective 2023), a ~$1.9B FCC program funds US carriers to rip and replace its gear, and several allied governments restrict it from 5G roles — so a confirmed ZTE OUI is materially relevant to supply-chain and asset-risk assessment, not just identification.

IEEE assignment

493 prefixes → "zte corporation", registered Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN 518057 [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (oui.csv, cached registry); corroborated maclookup.app/vendors/zte-corporation, netify.ai

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI); 493 IEEE prefixes under "zte corporation". Count is a current registry-file snapshot and drifts as ZTE registers more blocks; IEEE publishes no per-company total. [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv; maclookup.app (IEEE-sourced)

Subsidiary registrant (MA-M)

one MA-M block, prefix AC:64:DD:5 → "SHANGHAI ZTE TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD", Bibo Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Bldg 889, ZTE H Block 6F, Shanghai CN 201210 [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-M (mam.csv, cached registry)

MA-S registrant

none — no ZTE-named organization holds any MA-S (36-bit) block [Confirmed negative] — IEEE oui36.csv (cached registry)

HQ / country

12/F., ZTE R&D Building, Kejinan Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN 518057 (primary registry address) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L. Legacy registry-address variants on older blocks: "12/F ZTE Plaza, Keji Road South, Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Nanshan District, Shenzhen" (e.g. 00:26:ED, 00:22:93, 00:25:12) and "Technology Management Department, Shenzhen" (00:19:C6) — same legal entity. [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

Company status

active; founded 1985; publicly listed, partially state-owned; listed on the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges [Confirmed] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE

Device types

carrier network equipment (wireless access, optical transport, core), broadband CPE (GPON/XGS-PON ONTs, DSL CPE, Ethernet HGW), 4G/5G routers and indoor CPE, Wi-Fi 6/7 mesh APs, enterprise/campus switches, smartphones, smart-home devices [Confirmed] — zte.com.cn (home_and_enterprise / smart_home), mifi-hotspots.com/zte

Notable products

5G RAN and optical transport, GPON/XGS-PON ONTs, MF-series mobile/indoor CPE (e.g. MF286R), enterprise switches, ZTE/Axon/Blade smartphones

Verified sample prefixes (all MA-L, "zte corporation")

F0:1B:24, 98:EE:8C, 90:C7:10, DC:51:93, 00:19:C6 (legacy address), 00:25:12, 00:22:93, 00:26:ED [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv; maclookup.app

Registration dates

Unknown — IEEE publishes NO assignment/registration date in its OUI registry files (oui.csv columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address). Third-party "date registered" values (e.g. "23 September 2005" on maclookup.app/ouilookup) are database artifacts, not IEEE facts; do not surface them as IEEE registration dates. [Confirmed] — IEEE oui.csv; maclookup.app/vendors/zte-corporation

IANA Reference

N/A — no IANA RFC reference applies to OUI vendor records (column stays blank). [Confirmed]

Regulatory / supply-chain risk

material. (1) FCC designated ZTE a national-security threat (June 2020) and placed it on the Covered List. (2) FCC banned new US equipment authorizations for ZTE under the November 2022 rule (effective Feb 2023). (3) A ~$1.9B FCC reimbursement ("rip-and-replace") program funds US carriers to remove ZTE gear obtained on/before 30 June 2020. (4) Australia, Japan, the UK, Sweden, and the EU have separately banned or restricted ZTE from 5G supply roles. (5) ZTE pleaded guilty in 2017 to illegal export of US technology to Iran/North Korea ($1.19B in penalties); a US export ban was imposed Apr 2018 and lifted Jul 2018 after compliance concessions. [Confirmed] — fcc.gov/supplychain, federalregister.gov (2025-21928), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE

Security posture

ZTE operates an active PSIRT, is a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) and a FIRST member, and follows ISO/IEC 29147 + 30111 for disclosure. [Confirmed] — zte.com.cn/global/about/trust-center/ztepsirt.html. CVE volume (single-snapshot, mid-2026): NVD records ~64 ZTE-submitted CVEs, concentrated in cloud/database infrastructure (ZxCloud iRAN, GoldenDB) and CPE firmware (MF286R); annual tallies and the ~64 total are a point-in-time figure and will drift. [Likely] — nvd.nist.gov/vuln/cvmap/report/22082, stack.watch/product/zte

Related vendors

subsidiary "SHANGHAI ZTE TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD" (holds MA-M AC:64:DD:5). Data-quality trap: unrelated registrants whose addresses merely contain the string "ZTE" (e.g. "ZTE Industrial Park" in a Xi'an LINKSCI address at OUI D0:F1:21, "Aztech" companies) are NOT ZTE Corporation assignments and are excluded from the 493 count.

Analyst note

a globally-administered ZTE OUI reliably identifies genuine ZTE hardware and, given the Covered-List status, flags a device for supply-chain review. As with any vendor, MAC randomization and white-label CPE mean the absence of a ZTE OUI does not prove "not ZTE"; corroborate against firmware/web-UI for inventory decisions.