AS10212 — CHINAENTERCOM China Enterprise ICT Solutions Limited

AS10212 announces 15 IPv4 prefixes covering 48,640 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

CHINAENTERCOM is the network of China Enterprise ICT Solutions Limited ("China Entercom" / CEC), a subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings that sells managed enterprise connectivity and cloud services inside mainland China.

What it's used for

• Nationwide enterprise VPN and MPLS private-network service for multinationals operating in China, plus the cloud data-centre and managed-security estate CEC runs in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
• The routing shape matches that business exactly. RIS sees 39 IPv4 prefixes covering 48,896 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes, anchored on mainland Chinese blocks (218.97.0.0/17, 218.96.64.0/22, 210.5.0.0/19, 183.91.144.0/20) with 2403:b400::/32 alongside. That is a purpose-built corporate carrier footprint, not a consumer access pool.

Notable

• Enterprise service provider, not an eyeball ISP. Only 10 observed BGP neighbours — far too few for a wholesale transit carrier, which would peer with hundreds to thousands of ASes, and the address count is far too small for a Chinese consumer broadband network. Roughly 48k addresses fronting a licensed value-added telecoms operator points squarely at corporate VPN endpoints, managed CPE and hosted workloads.
• The parent, CITIC Telecom, is the reason a Hong Kong-registered holder announces mainland space: CEC holds the mainland licences the group needs to sell in-country circuits and cloud, which foreign carriers cannot do directly.

Interesting

• The heavy nesting under 218.97.0.0/17 (a /17, /18, /19, /20 and /21 all from the same base) is deliberate traffic engineering across multiple upstreams, a common pattern for a network whose customers buy SLA-backed private links.

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

Announced prefixes

• 183.91.144.0/20
• 210.5.0.0/20
• 210.5.16.0/22
• 210.5.20.0/23
• 210.5.22.0/24
• 210.5.24.0/21
• 218.96.0.0/24
• 218.96.64.0/22
• 218.96.104.0/22
• 218.96.108.0/23
• 218.96.128.0/24
• 218.96.241.0/24
• 218.96.244.0/24
• 218.96.255.0/24
• 218.97.0.0/17
• 2403:b400::/32

Upstream networks

• AS9808 China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
• AS24400 Shanghai Mobile Communications Co.,Ltd.
• AS56048 China Mobile Communicaitons Corporation
• AS17621 China Unicom Shanghai network
• AS4847 China Networks Inter-Exchange
• AS17622 China Unicom Guangzhou network
• AS4808 China Unicom Beijing Province Network
• AS56040 China Mobile communications corporation
• AS4812 China Telecom (Group)

Downstream networks

• AS17776 China Enterprise ICT Solutions Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS9808 China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd.
• AS24400 Shanghai Mobile Communications Co.,Ltd.
• AS56048 China Mobile Communicaitons Corporation
• AS17621 China Unicom Shanghai network
• AS4847 China Networks Inter-Exchange
• AS17622 China Unicom Guangzhou network
• AS4808 China Unicom Beijing Province Network
• AS17776 China Enterprise ICT Solutions Limited
• AS56040 China Mobile communications corporation
• AS4812 China Telecom (Group)