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Identifying manufacturer board P/Ns

This page shows some examples and the general format of some P/Ns

or other distinguishing features attributed to various manufacturers.

Assume any information on this page is page is correct at your own risk.

AboCom

143 tagged devices

  • AboCom (133 total devices) Abocom Systems, Inc. FCC ID: MQ4
Taiwanese manufacturer - they've been around for a while.

Examples

P/N on the Hawking HWR54G (original)

Accton / Arcadyan / AWB

476 tagged devices

  • Accton has manufactured a large amount of products,
including Microsoft's old 802.11 (and non) networking line.
  • Arcadyan was formed as a joint venture between Philips and Accton.
  • AWB (Accton Wireless Broadband Corp.) is an off-shoot of the Accton Group.

ALFA Network is an Accton Group partner, their newer devices seem to be mostly Accton manuf'ed.

  • These devices usually have silkscreened text along the lines of
"P/N: 141"<4 digit numeric P/N><6 other digits / characters> (<REV.…>),
followed by, presumably, the revision, as well as a RoHS notice
(for newer, post-RoHS units).

Examples

Belkin F9L1106v1's board, Arcadyan labels + text present The newer AWUS036H board

Alpha Networks

330 tagged devices

  • Alpha Networks was once the manufacturing arm of D-Link. They split off around 2003.

They still manufacture many of D-Link's products (as well as those of numerous others).

  • Generally, text of
8<TYPE CODE><802.11 capability code>(some dots)<REVISION> 
(assuming any of that is correct) can be found on Alpha produced 802.11 gear.

At least some type codes seem to be as follows...

  • RG - residential gateway <??> / router
  • WRG - wireless gateway / wireless router
  • WAP - wireless access point
  • WMP - wireless adapter, 16-bit PCMCIA (generally not) or Mini PCI (mostly)
  • WCB - wireless adapter, CardBus
  • WUS - wireless adapter, USB
  • WPC - wireless adapter, PCI / PCIe
  • WMC - wireless adapter, Mini PCIe

802.11 capability codes are probably the following...

  • B - 802.11b
  • G - 802.11g
  • A - 802.11a or 802.11a/ac
  • D - 802.11a/b/g
  • AB - 802.11a/b
  • N - 802.11b/g/n
  • ND - 802.11a/b/g/n

Examples

P/N on a D-Link TM-G5240 P/N on a WD My Net N750 P/N on an Airlink101 AR680W

AMIT

96 tagged devices

  • AMIT has been around since 802.11 products have been marketed.
They commonly manufacture 3G/4G modem-routers for various companies..
and manufactured a variety of products in the past.
  • Newer AMIT boards are frequently marked with a
long alphanumeric string starting with 11340.

Examples

Ancient P/N format on the > 10 year old D-Link DI-713P P/N on an Airlink101 AR360W3G (WMQ138AM)
P/N on a ZALIP CDM530AM P/N on a LevelOne WBR-3406TX v2

Askey

165 tagged devices

Examples

P/N on the ASUS DSL-N10 Askey typical MAC label on a Linksys WCG200 wireless module P/N on a Belkin F5D8230-4 v2

B-LINK

11 tagged devices

  • Chinese manufacturer - many of their wireless modules are bundled into low
cost devices and their stuff is frequently found on eBay and elsewhere.

Examples

P/N on a RT2571 dongle Casing for an RT3070 adapter and the board of that RT3070 adapter

Billion

10 tagged devices

Examples

P/N on the BEC Technologies 7300 GT Quick Eagle DL700's board

Cameo

315 tagged devices

  • Cameo has been around for a while, and has made routers for a wide variety of companies.
  • D-Link devices are commonly manufactured by them (and most old D-Link devices
were manufactured by Global Sun Tech, a company acquired by Cameo).

A lead-free logo (RoHS woo) is usually featured prominently on their boards.

  • If there is a numeric P/N, it will frequently start with 2151.

Plotech has commonly manufactured their PCBs in the past.

Examples

Lead-free logo on the TRENDnet TEW-651BR v2.1 Lead-free logo, P/N, and partially obscured Plotech logo on the Fry's FR-300RTR
The D-Link DIR-600's board (w/ Plotech logo, lead-free logo, and 2151x P/N On the TRENDnet TEW-643PI's board

CyberTAN

160 tagged devices

  • CyberTAN is a common manufacturer, perhaps most recognizable for manufacturing
many Linksys products (including most of the venerable WRT54G series).

Examples

P/N on the ZyXEL G-405 P/N on the Linksys E1000

DareGlobal

24 tagged devices

  • DareGlobal is a common DSL modem manufacturer.
Generally, silkscreened text of
"PWB:"<........> and "DAT:"<........ (date code)> 
is found on their boards.

Examples

text on the Zoom 5754's board

Delta Networks

196 tagged devices

  • Delta Networks is one of Netgear's primary manufacturers, but they
also manufacture stuff for a multitude of other companies.

Examples

early model P/N format on a LM-WP100 rebrand Delta P/N on an IBM DR-E200W P/N on a Netgear MA101

Edimax

378 tagged devices

Edimax Technology Co., Ltd.
  • If there is a numeric P/N, it will frequently start with 1244-.

Examples

P/N on the Hercules HWGUSB2-54V2-AP USB dongle
P/N on the Edimax BR-6478AC P/N on the Belkin F5D7230-4 v9

Foxconn (+ Ambit Microsystems)

290 tagged devices

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group
  • Most people have probably heard of Foxconn.
Ambit was absorbed into Foxconn.
Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn.
  • Internal Foxconn / Ambit models generally seem to be 7 characters -
<LETTER (T/U/J/F/M/...)><TWO DIGIT NUMBER>
<LETTER (L/H/Z/...)><THREE DIGIT NUMBER>, 
followed by the presumed revision / sub-model (Foxconn T77H194.00)

Examples

Ambit board label on the Orion 3000 cable modem The Orion 3000's board

Gemtek

507 tagged devices

  • Gemtek (123 total devices) Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd. FCC ID: MXF
Gemtek is a prolific OEM/ODM. They've manufactured
a large amount of products for many companies.
  • Generally, internal Gemtek P/Ns are in format of
<TYPE (WAP = wireless access point, WRT = wireless router, etc)>
<PLATFORM MANUF (A = Atheros, B = Broadcom, R = Ralink, etc)>
-<NUMERIC MODEL PORTION>_<VERSION>, 
and they are often silkscreened on the board.

Examples

P/N on the VEN401 STB AP P/N on the Dynex DX-NRUTER
P/N on the Belkin F5D8235-4 v2 (v21xx) P/N on the VIZIO XWR100's board
P/N on the Linksys WRV400's board P/N on a Linksys WUSB300N

Global Sun Technology

101 tagged devices

(55 total devices)

  • Was once a major 802.11 independent OEM/ODM. Absorbed into Cameo.

Examples

P/N on the D-Link DWL-120+ P/N on the D-Link DI-624 A1 P/N on the D-Link DI-614+'s wireless module

Lite-On

106 tagged devices

(97 total devices)

Examples

P/N on the WN6502AH (HP)

Loopcomm

59 tagged devices

  • .. is a Taiwanese OEM/ODM.

(35 total devices)

Examples

P/N on the Rosewill RNX-N2LX

MitraStar

46 tagged devices

If there is a numeric P/N, it will frequently start with 45-402- and 45-601-

Examples

"45-601-000573" is silkscreened on the board in the FCC photos.

OUI: 0C:4C:39 (MitraStar Technology Corp.) FCC label

Shenzhen Gongjin Electronics (SGE)

110 tagged devices

  • SGE makes a large quantity of DSL modems for several major companies..
as well as a variety of other products.

(14 total devices)

Examples

P/N on the Sagemcom F@st 1704 P/N on the D-Link DSL-2750B T1

Senao / EnGenius

246 tagged devices

  • A Taiwan based manufacturer which has made numerous popular products.
Their marketed brand is EnGenius (246 total devices)

  • Hardware:

Senaos line of Ralink based routers are sold as Engenius/Senao but
are also rebranded (ODM and OEM) for a whole bunch of other vendors.

Looking at Senaos circuit boards one can see that they are of high quality build and Senao has created
a smart layout where they can use an RT3050 or a RT3052 SoC on the same type of circuit board.
  • Software:
The header of the stock firmware tells us in the first 16 bytes which Senao basic model a router is based on:
00 00 00 00 00 00 02 05 00 00 00 05 31 32 33 00 

byte 6 (0x02) tells the type of vendor where:

01 = OBM (Original Brand Manufacturer)
02 = ODM (Original Design Manufacturer)
03 = OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)

byte 7 (0x05) is vendor identification where:

01 = Engenius
02 = Sitecom (Europe)
03 = Hamlet (Italy)
04 = Rosewill (US)
05 = Corega (Japan)
06 = Amper (Spain)
07 = ZyXEL
08 = NetComm (Australia)
09 = MSI
0C = TRENDnet
0F = Encore (US/Mexico)

byte 11 is the board identifier:

01 = ESR-9750 (802.11n Router, Platform: RaLink 2880 SoC + 2860)
02 = ESR-9750A (802.11n Router, Platform: RaLink 2880 SoC + 2860 + RTL8366SR GbE)
03 = ESR-9750G (9750A with 32MB RAM)
04 = ECB-9500
05 = ESR-9750B (9750 with 32MB RAM)
06 = EOR-7550 (Dual-radio)
07 = ESR-9752 (3052, 16MB RAM, 4MB Flash)
08 = ESR-9753 (3050, 16MB RAM, 4MB Flash)
09 = ESR-7750
0A = ESR-7850 (Atheros 11n AP94/96 platform)
0B = EAP-3670
0C = ESR-9752A
0D = ESR-6650 (3G Router - 3050)
0E = ESR-6670 (3G Router - 3052)
0F = ESR-6670A (3G Router - 3050)
11 = ESR-9850 (3052, 32MB RAM, 4MB Flash, RTL8366RB GbE)
14 = EAP-9550
16 = ESR-9752B-SC (9752 with 32MB RAM)
17 = ETR-9350
18 = ERB-9250
19 = ESR-9753CR
21 = ETR-9330
22 = ETR-9360
23 = ESR-1221N2

  • P/Ns starting with 7016A are frequently on their boards.
Typical Senao format labels may affixed to them.

Examples

Senao label on a NoGeekNeeded NGNHWI-N3

SerComm

335 tagged devices

  • SerComm makes a large amount of kit (52 total devices).

Examples

P/N from the Diamond DSL642WLGv1 P/N from the OvisLink WN-200R (new style)
SerComm label + text (obscured) on the Linksys WMA11B Netgear DGN1000's board
SerComm label on the Netgear WNDA3200's board

Tenda

126 tagged devices

Examples

Monoprice MW368R's board

TP-LINK / Proware

408 tagged devices

(672 total devices)

Newer TP-LINK boards are frequently marked with a long numeric string starting with 205 and 201

"2050500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the wireless router (TL-WDRXXX).
"2052500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the wireless module (TL-WDNXXX).
"2053500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the access point (TL-WAXXX).
"2011500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the AP/DSL modem (TD-WXXX).
"2021500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the wireless router (TL-ERXXX).

Examples

TP-LINK TL-WN7200ND PCB top

Wistron NeWeb Corp. (WNC)

172 tagged devices

(79 total devices)

Examples

Upside down P/N on the TPE-N150USB

Zioncom

32 tagged devices

  • Chinese manufacturer - makes routers (mostly non-US distributed), USB dongles, etc

(37 total devices)

Examples

P/N on the Rosewill RNX-N600UBE's board On the ipTIME N8004R's board

See also