AS11758 — IRISNETWORKS
AS11758 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,864 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
IRISNETWORKS is IRIS Networks, a regional fibre-optic transport carrier headquartered on Commerce Street in Nashville, Tennessee. It sells middle-mile capacity — dark fibre, carrier ethernet, dedicated internet access and wireless backhaul — across Tennessee and the neighbouring states.
What it's used for
Wholesale transit and transport, not eyeball access. The routing shape makes the case on its own: RIS sees only 5 IPv4 prefixes (4,864 addresses) and one IPv6 block, 2607:f920::/32, but 42 observed BGP neighbours. Peer count is the honest role signal here, and forty-plus adjacencies against fewer than five thousand addresses is a carrier signature. An enterprise or a small ISP holding the same amount of address space would peer with a handful of upstreams. IRIS carries other people's traffic and other people's prefixes, so its own originated footprint stays small while its position in the middle of AS paths stays busy.
Notable
Four of the five prefixes are registered to IRIS Networks itself. The fifth, 64.3.212.0/23, registers to Verizon Business under an XOXO-BLK handle — legacy XO Communications space. That is provider-assigned address space carried by the customer's own AS, a routine carrier arrangement, not a sign of leased or brokered inventory.
Interesting
ARIN dates the AS number to 2007, not the early internet. Its low number is an artifact of ARIN reissuing space in this range, and the company's own history reaches back further than the ASN does.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 64.3.212.0/23
- 66.85.43.0/24
- 149.248.160.0/21
- 198.231.28.0/22
- 204.29.12.0/22
- 2607:f920::/32
Upstream networks
Downstream networks
- AS16433 NORTH CENTRAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE CORPORATION
- AS40020 Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.
- AS395437 Highland Communications LLC
- AS36545 Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative Corporation
- AS12261 DTC Communications, Inc.
- AS32040 Trenton Telephone Company
- AS63448 HOLSTON ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
- AS26809 Scottsboro Electric Power Board
- AS40749 CLARKSVILLE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICITY
- AS19215 PES Energize
- AS19331 Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation
- AS63267 Fayetteville Public Utilities
- AS27221 Ardmore Telephone Company Inc.
- AS22408 West Ky Networks
- AS18934 TenHats, LLC
- AS396052 North Alabama Electric Cooperative
- AS54512 Chickamauga Telephone Corporation
- AS3450 University of Tennessee
- AS21766 BEN LOMAND RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
- AS22792 MOUNTAINET
- AS395777 ATHENS UTILITIES BOARD
- AS396956 Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative
- AS393986 Johnson City Power Board
- AS14559 Ballard Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation Inc.
- AS393872 Motlow State Community College
Adjacent networks
- AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
- AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
- AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
- AS16433 NORTH CENTRAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE CORPORATION
- AS40020 Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.
- AS395437 Highland Communications LLC
- AS36545 Bledsoe Telephone Cooperative Corporation
- AS12261 DTC Communications, Inc.
- AS32040 Trenton Telephone Company
- AS63448 HOLSTON ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
- AS26809 Scottsboro Electric Power Board
- AS40749 CLARKSVILLE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICITY
- AS19331 Twin Lakes Telephone Cooperative Corporation
- AS19215 PES Energize
- AS63267 Fayetteville Public Utilities
- AS21766 BEN LOMAND RURAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC.
- AS27221 Ardmore Telephone Company Inc.
- AS18934 TenHats, LLC
- AS22408 West Ky Networks
- AS3450 University of Tennessee
- AS396052 North Alabama Electric Cooperative
- AS54512 Chickamauga Telephone Corporation
- AS22792 MOUNTAINET
- AS47095 Murray Electric System
- AS395777 ATHENS UTILITIES BOARD
Internet exchanges
- Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States
- Digital Realty Atlanta Internet Exchange — Atlanta, United States
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