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 (220 tagged devices)
Taiwanese manufacturer - they've been around for a while.
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Accton / Arcadyan / AWB / etc (938 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 [1].
AWB is an off-shoot of the Accton Group.
ALFA Network is an Accton Group partner [2], 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>, followed by, presumably, the revision, as well as a RoHS notice (for newer, post-RoHS units).
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Alpha Networks (623 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
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AMIT (159 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.
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Askey (361 tagged devices)
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B-LINK (14 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
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Billion (16 tagged devices)
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Cameo (670 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.
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CyberTAN (484 tagged devices)
CyberTAN is a common manufacturer, perhaps most recognizable for manufacturing many Linksys products (including most of the venerable WRT54G series).
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DareGlobal (47 tagged devices)
DareGlobal is a common DSL modem manufacturer.
Generally, silkscreened text of "PWB:"<........> and "DAT:"<........ (date code)> is found on their boards.
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Delta Networks (441 tagged devices)
Delta Networks is one of Netgear's primary manufacturers, but they also manufacture stuff for a multitude of other companies.
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Edimax (537 tagged devices)
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Foxconn (+ Ambit Microsystems) (762 tagged devices)
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.
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Gemtek (954 tagged devices)
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.
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Global Sun Technology (202 tagged devices)
Was once a major 802.11 independent OEM/ODM. Absorbed into CAMEO.
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Lite-On (88 tagged devices)
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Loopcomm (88 tagged devices)
.. is a Taiwanese OEM/ODM.
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Shenzhen Gongjin Electronics (56 tagged devices)
SGE makes a large quantity of DSL modems for several major companies.. as well as a variety of other products.
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Senao (458 tagged devices)
A Taiwan based manufacturer which has made numerous popular products. Their marketed brand is EnGenius.
P/Ns starting with 7016A are frequently on their boards. Typical Senao format labels may affixed to them.
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SerComm (636 tagged devices)
SerComm makes a large amount of kit.
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Tenda (156 tagged devices)
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TP-LINK / Proware (513 tagged devices)
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Wistron NeWeb Corp (WNC) (325 tagged devices)
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Zioncom (325 tagged devices)
Chinese manufacturer - makes routers (mostly non-US distributed), USB dongles, etc
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