AS10099 — UNICOM-GLOBAL China Unicom Global

AS10099 announces 40 IPv4 prefixes covering 32,768 addresses and 15 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

UNICOM-Global is China Unicom (Hong Kong) Operations Limited, the international carrier arm of China Unicom. It is the AS that fronts Unicom's business outside mainland China, and it behaves like a wholesale carrier rather than an access network.

What it's used for

Selling international IP transit, private lines and China-inbound connectivity to carriers, content providers and multinationals. The AS announces 85 IPv4 prefixes totalling only 32,768 addresses plus 10 IPv6 prefixes. That is a small address footprint by any standard, and the prefixes are scattered across many small blocks (203.160.64.0/19, 119.252.136.0/21, 162.219.32.0/21, and a long tail of /22s and /24s) drawn from both APNIC and ARIN space, consistent with points of presence spread across many countries rather than one home market.

Notable

This is a transit carrier, and the neighbour count is what settles it. The AS is seen with 297 observed BGP neighbours against those 32,768 addresses. An eyeball or enterprise network with that little space would peer with a handful of ASes; only a network whose product is interconnection peers with hundreds. The address space here is mostly infrastructure, PoP transit links and customer assignments, not a subscriber base.

Interesting

Because the customer base is other people's networks, prefixes routed through AS10099 are frequently mistaken for it. Traffic transiting Unicom Global reaches destinations all over Asia, Europe and North America. Geolocate the announced blocks to Unicom's own PoPs, not to a single country, and never infer a Chinese end user from a Unicom Global path.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 38.69.152.0/24
• 43.251.13.0/24
• 43.251.14.0/23
• 43.252.84.0/22
• 43.255.169.0/24
• 43.255.171.0/24
• 46.19.162.0/23
• 46.19.164.0/22
• 61.14.200.0/24
• 103.1.64.0/22
• 103.69.184.0/22
• 103.77.20.0/24
• 103.77.22.0/23
• 103.86.14.0/23
• 103.107.88.0/22
• 103.203.184.0/24
• 103.214.64.0/22
• 103.228.69.0/24
• 103.228.70.0/24
• 103.229.246.0/24
• 103.239.176.0/23
• 118.26.144.0/22
• 118.26.148.0/23
• 118.26.153.0/24
• 118.26.155.0/24
• 118.26.157.0/24
• 118.26.158.0/24
• 119.252.136.0/21
• 162.219.32.0/21
• 162.219.80.0/24
• 162.219.82.0/23
• 162.219.84.0/24
• 162.219.86.0/23
• 162.245.124.0/22
• 162.247.4.0/22
• 162.255.49.0/24
• 162.255.50.0/23
• 202.77.16.0/21
• 203.160.64.0/19
• 206.52.7.0/24
• 2401:8a00::/43
• 2401:8a00:13::/48
• 2401:8a00:14::/46
• 2401:8a00:18::/45
• 2401:8a00:20::/43
• 2401:8a00:40::/42
• 2401:8a00:80::/41
• 2401:8a00:100::/40
• 2401:8a00:200::/39
• 2401:8a00:400::/38
• 2401:8a00:800::/37
• 2401:8a00:1000::/36
• 2401:8a00:2000::/35
• 2401:8a00:4000::/34
• 2401:8a00:8000::/33

Upstream networks

• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS4837 CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS4657 StarHub Ltd
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS4635 Hong Kong Internet Exchange--Route Server 1
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS25818 CMC NETWORK (PTY) LTD
• AS35710 weber.digital GmbH
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS1836 green.ch AG
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS58057 Securebit AG

Downstream networks

• AS9929 CHINA UNICOM Industrial Internet Backbone
• AS131429 MOBIFONE Corporation
• AS37342 Movitel, SA
• AS4837 CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone
• AS132513 Sky Telecom State Company
• AS8796 FASTNET DATA INC
• AS58439 ICNC LLC
• AS137853 TELNET CO.,LTD
• AS153347 Lao Communication Technology Sole Co., Ltd
• AS58411 Unit A-E, 13/F, Golden Sun Centre,
• AS979 NetLab Global
• AS8126 Cloud Fabric, Inc.
• AS58536 CONAC (China Organizational Name Administration Center)
• AS134823 Sky Digital Co., Ltd.
• AS197407 CHINA UNICOM (EUROPE) OPERATIONS LIMITED
• AS131941 Entsu Co.,Ltd.
• AS11757 Whirlpool Corporation
• AS132111 Bigband Sdn Bhd
• AS135059 Lao Asia Pacific Satellite Co., Ltd.
• AS149855 AGB Communication Co., Ltd
• AS137753 Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co. Ltd.
• AS132281 China Unicom (Singapore) Operations Pte Ltd
• AS131303 4/F Podium RCBC Plaza Tower I
• AS24320 Railcom - Commercial Center,
• AS40051 Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS9929 CHINA UNICOM Industrial Internet Backbone
• AS4837 CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS55720 Gigabit Hosting Sdn Bhd
• AS131429 MOBIFONE Corporation
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS35710 weber.digital GmbH
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS37342 Movitel, SA
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB
• AS4635 Hong Kong Internet Exchange--Route Server 1
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS134823 Sky Digital Co., Ltd.
• AS139089 MT Networks LLC
• AS149855 AGB Communication Co., Ltd
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS58439 ICNC LLC
• AS132513 Sky Telecom State Company
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS8796 FASTNET DATA INC
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS4058 CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited
• AS137853 TELNET CO.,LTD

Internet exchanges

• IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo — São Paulo, Brazil
• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
• France-IX Paris — Paris, France
• MSK-IX Moscow — Moscow, Russia
• Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
• BroadBand Internet eXchange Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
• Hong Kong Internet Exchange — Hong Kong, China
• JPIX Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
• Singapore Internet Exchange — Singapore, Singapore
• NetIX — Sofia, Bulgaria
• SwissIX — Zurich, Switzerland
• Equinix Internet Exchange Hong Kong — Hong Kong, China
• Johannesburg Internet Exchange — Johannesburg, South Africa
• IX Australia (Sydney NSW) — Sydney, Australia
• Taipei Internet Exchange (TPIX) — Taipei, Taiwan
• Malaysia Internet Exchange — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi — Nairobi, Kenya
• UAE-IX — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Bangkok Neutral Internet Exchange — Bangkok, Thailand
• Korea Internet Neutral Exchange KINX — Seoul, South Korea