Editing MAC address (section)

==Applications==
The following network technologies use the EUI-48 identifier format:
* IEEE 802 networks
** Ethernet
** [[IEEE 802.11|802.11]] wireless networks ([[Wi-Fi]])
** [[Bluetooth]]
** IEEE 802.5 [[Token Ring]]
* [[Fiber Distributed Data Interface]] (FDDI)
* [[Asynchronous Transfer Mode]] (ATM), switched virtual connections only, as part of an [[NSAP address]]
* [[Fibre Channel]] and [[Serial Attached SCSI]] (as part of a [[World Wide Name]])
* The [[ITU-T]] [[G.hn]] standard, which provides a way to create a high-speed (up to 1 gigabit/s) [[local area network]] using existing home wiring ([[Power line communication|power lines]], phone lines and [[Ethernet over coax|coaxial cables]]). The G.hn Application Protocol Convergence (APC) layer accepts Ethernet frames that use the EUI-48 format and encapsulates them into G.hn Medium Access Control Service Data Units (MSDUs).

Every device that connects to an IEEE 802 network (such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi) has an EUI-48 address. Common networked consumer devices such as PCs, smartphones and tablet computers use EUI-48 addresses.

EUI-64 identifiers are used in:
* [[IEEE 1394]] (FireWire)
* [[InfiniBand]]
* [[IPv6 address#Modified EUI-64|IPv6]] (Modified EUI-64 as the least-significant 64 bits of a unicast network address or link-local address when stateless address autoconfiguration is used.){{Ref RFC|4862}} IPv6 uses a ''modified EUI-64'', treats MAC-48 as EUI-48 instead (as it is chosen from the same address pool) and inverts the local bit.{{efn|With local identifiers indicated with a zero bit, locally assigned EUI-64 begin with leading zeroes and it is easier for administrators to type locally assigned IPv6 addresses based on the modified EUI-64}} This results in extending MAC addresses (such as IEEE 802 MAC address) to modified EUI-64 using only {{MACaddr|FF-FE}} (and never {{MACaddr|FF-FF}}) and with the local bit inverted.{{Ref RFC|7042}}{{rp|sec. 2.2.1}}
* [[Zigbee]] / [[IEEE 802.15|802.15.4]] / [[6LoWPAN]] wireless personal-area networks
* [[IEEE 11073-20601]] (IEEE 11073-20601 compliant medical devices)<ref>IEEE P11073-20601 Health informatics—Personal health device communication Part 20601: Application profile—Optimized Exchange Protocol</ref>