AS11814 — DISTRIBUTEL-AS11814

Network type: residential

AS11814 announces 36 IPv4 prefixes covering 332,544 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

DISTRIBUTEL-AS11814 is Distributel Communications Limited, one of Canada's largest independent retail telecom providers. Founded in 1988, it resells and wholesales access over incumbent lines (Bell in Ontario and Quebec, Telus in the west) and was itself acquired by Bell Canada in a deal announced in 2022. The AS is its eyeball network.

What it's used for

• Consumer and small-business internet access — DSL, cable and fibre subscribers across Canada. The reverse DNS settles it beyond argument: nearly every sampled address lands in .cpe.distributel.net or .rdns.distributel.net, and cpe is customer-premises equipment. This is subscriber space, not hosting or enterprise space.
• RIS sees 81 IPv4 prefixes / 353,024 addresses, 1 IPv6 prefix (a 2610:1e8::/32), and 19 observed neighbours. A third of a million addresses against fewer than twenty peers is exactly the eyeball ratio: a lot of end users, a modest set of upstreams and interconnects, no wholesale transit role.

Notable

• The whole inventory is self-registered to Distributel, and the netnames read as a map of the company's footprint: DTEL-EASTERNCANADA-V4-04, DTEL-TORONTO-BLR-V4-04, DTEL-BOLTON-V4-01, DTEL-WINDSOR-TEC4-V4-02. Registrant, announcer and rDNS all agree.
• One block, 204.11.121.0/24, still registers under the handle YAK — Distributel acquired Yak Communications from Globalive in 2016, and the acquired company's address space carries its old name in the registry. A registrant handle that does not match the holder's brand is post-acquisition history here, not a leasing tell.
• Address space is heavily fragmented across many legacy ranges (66.11, 66.49, 69.171, 72.53, 172.97, 198.91, 198.200, 209.195, 216.58, 216.246), which is what decades of growth-by-acquisition looks like in a routing table.

Interesting

• Only a single IPv6 /32 is announced against 81 IPv4 prefixes.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.91.224.0/19
• 45.42.96.0/19
• 66.11.160.0/19
• 66.49.128.0/18
• 66.49.208.0/20
• 66.49.224.0/20
• 66.49.240.0/21
• 66.49.248.0/22
• 66.49.255.0/24
• 67.55.0.0/23
• 67.55.4.0/22
• 67.55.8.0/21
• 67.55.16.0/20
• 67.55.32.0/19
• 68.232.80.0/20
• 69.171.128.0/19
• 69.173.32.0/19
• 72.53.0.0/18
• 72.53.64.0/19
• 72.53.144.0/20
• 172.97.128.0/17
• 173.206.32.0/19
• 173.206.96.0/19
• 173.206.128.0/19
• 174.138.192.0/19
• 198.91.128.0/17
• 198.200.64.0/18
• 204.11.120.0/22
• 206.80.240.0/20
• 206.188.64.0/19
• 208.68.16.0/22
• 209.195.64.0/18
• 209.197.128.0/18
• 209.227.128.0/18
• 216.48.160.0/20
• 216.58.0.0/17
• 2610:1e8::/32

Upstream networks

• AS577 Bell Canada
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS852 TELUS Communications Inc.
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Downstream networks

• AS6407 Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc.
• AS19515 Oricom Internet inc.
• AS5071 Navigata Communications Limited
• AS33139 Canaca-com Inc.
• AS46737 Planet Telecom

Adjacent networks

• AS6407 Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc.
• AS577 Bell Canada
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS22652 Videotron Ltee
• AS1403 EBOX
• AS394256 Tech Futures Interactive Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS852 TELUS Communications Inc.
• AS5071 Navigata Communications Limited
• AS19515 Oricom Internet inc.
• AS33139 Canaca-com Inc.
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL
• AS812 Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
• AS46737 Planet Telecom
• AS6391 Beanfield Technologies Inc.
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 91 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 87% of announcements registered; 118 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-AKN:AS-TORIX-PEERS, AS-BIGPIPE, AS-DISTRIBUTEL-BACKBONE, AS-DISTRIBUTEL-TORONTO-BACKBONE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-PRIMUS, AS-ROGERS:AS-TORIX-PEERS, AS1403:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS21570:AS-TORIX-PEERS, AS4470:AS-TORIX-PEERS.

Internet exchanges

• Toronto Internet Exchange — Toronto, Canada
• Vancouver Internet Exchange — Vancouver, Canada