AS10352 — WCTC

Network type: residential

AS10352 announces 9 IPv4 prefixes covering 32,256 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

WCTC is Solarus, the Wisconsin Rapids telephone company — founded in 1896 as Wood County Telephone Company and rebranded in the 2000s. It is the largest independent telco in Wisconsin, serving roughly 17,000 customers with fiber internet, phone and TV.

What it's used for

• Consumer and small-business broadband across central Wisconsin: FTTH, legacy DSL and dial-era access aggregation, plus the company's IT-services arm.
• The reverse DNS is the giveaway and it is unusually rich: DSLPool-net208-5, wau-dsl-208-5.solarus.net, sharondsl-p1-5, Baraboo-nas3-219-133 (a network access server — dial/DSL aggregation), and rows of numerically-named 063-247-032-005.solarus.net hosts. Pooled, per-address, positionally-named PTRs like these are what a subscriber access network looks like.

Notable

• Eyeball ISP, not carrier. RIS sees 57 IPv4 prefixes / 32,768 addresses plus one IPv6 prefix (2605:7240::/32), against 14 observed BGP neighbours. Fourteen neighbours is a well-connected regional access network buying transit and peering locally; a wholesale carrier of any scale peers with hundreds.
• The heavy deaggregation of a modest address pool across many /22–/24s is the fingerprint of an ILEC that has absorbed neighbouring exchanges over time.

Interesting

• The rDNS is a fossil record of acquisitions: wctc.net, solarus.net, mtc.net, tznet.com, dwave.net/dwave.org and sharontelephone.com all appear in the same AS — several small Wisconsin telephone companies and ISPs now answering under one roof, with their old naming still in place.

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

Announced prefixes

• 63.247.32.0/20
• 66.170.64.0/20
• 66.208.64.0/20
• 206.176.192.0/19
• 209.94.160.0/20
• 209.94.176.0/21
• 209.94.184.0/22
• 209.94.188.0/23
• 216.105.208.0/20
• 2605:7240::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS

Downstream networks

• AS396426 -Reserved AS-
• AS14334 Renaissance Learning Inc.
• AS17298 ROEHL TRANSPORT, INC.
• AS21553 Aspirus, Inc.
• AS394263 Alliance Collection Agencies, INC

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS396426 -Reserved AS-
• AS14334 Renaissance Learning Inc.
• AS17298 ROEHL TRANSPORT, INC.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS21553 Aspirus, Inc.
• AS394263 Alliance Collection Agencies, INC
• AS11796 Airstream Communications, LLC

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago — Chicago, United States
• Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange — Minneapolis, United States