AS10127 — CLSA-AS-AP CLSA Ltd
AS10127 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
CLSA-AS-AP belongs to CLSA Ltd, the Hong Kong capital-markets and brokerage group founded in 1986 as Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia and wholly owned by CITIC Securities since 2013. AS10127 is a bank's own corporate network.
What it's used for
CLSA's own trading, research and office connectivity across its Asia-Pacific offices. The AS announces 4 IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,024 addresses (202.124.28.0/24 through 202.124.31.0/24, a legacy APNIC /22 deaggregated into four /24s) and no IPv6. Deaggregating a /22 into its component /24s is a traffic-engineering move, not a growth one: it lets a firm steer inbound flows across different upstreams per block, which is exactly what a securities house with latency-sensitive market-data and order-routing links cares about.
Notable
This is an enterprise network in the financial sector, and the shape says so. 1,024 addresses against 4 observed BGP neighbours is far too small and too sparsely connected to be a provider: a wholesale carrier peers with hundreds to thousands of ASes, and a hosting business would need far more space to sell. A handful of upstreams and a single legacy /22 is a company multihoming for its own resilience. Geolocate this space to CLSA offices and their internet-facing edge, not to end users.
Interesting
The registered name outlived a rebrand cycle. CITIC has said the CLSA brand will be retired in favour of CITIC Securities International, so this AS is a reminder that registry names track paperwork, not marketing.
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Announced prefixes
- 202.124.28.0/22
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