AS11940 — DIRECTSCOM - Direct Supply, Inc.

AS11940 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

DIRECTSCOM is Direct Supply, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a supplier of equipment, e-procurement and technology to senior-living and long-term-care operators. The ASN carries the company's own network and nobody else's.

What it's used for

RIS shows four IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,280 addresses, no IPv6, and four observed BGP neighbours. Four upstreams for five /24s worth of space is a deliberately resilient enterprise, which fits a business whose customers place orders through its systems: an outage is lost revenue, so the connectivity is over-provisioned relative to the address count. A provider network with this many customers would show far more neighbours.

The registrations are worth reading closely, because the prefixes come from three different sources and every one still resolves to the holder. 8.9.32.0/23 is registered as LVLT-DIRECT-17-8-9-32, org Direct Supply, Inc., a reassignment out of Level 3's 8/8. 12.43.32.0/24 is DIRECT-S753-32, org DIRECT SUPPLY, out of AT&T's 12/8. The 74.116.50.0/24 and 74.116.51.0/24 pair is registered as DIRECTSUPPLY directly to the company. Carrier-assigned space plus its own allocation, all in the holder's name: no third-party registrants, so nothing about this inventory suggests leased or brokered address space despite prefixes appearing under two large carriers' blocks.

Notable

The name is generic enough to mislead. Direct Supply is not a carrier or a wholesaler of connectivity but a healthcare-procurement company, and the network is sized and shaped exactly like one.

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

Announced prefixes

• 8.9.32.0/23
• 12.43.32.0/24
• 74.116.50.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS40264 Charter Communications LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS30517 Great Lakes Comnet, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS40264 Charter Communications LLC
• AS7018 AT&T Enterprises, LLC
• AS30517 Great Lakes Comnet, Inc.

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 4 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 7 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-30517-ASSOCIATED, AS-CHTR-SYNC, AS-HURRICANE, AS-RR-SYNC.