AS11970 — ETEL

AS11970 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

ETEL is e-Tel, LLC, a locally owned telecommunications company at 1515 Broadway Street in Paducah, western Kentucky. It sells telephone service and fibre and DSL internet access in the Paducah area, along with web and email hosting and PBX services.

What it's used for

• Local access networking. The AS announces exactly one prefix, 207.162.160.0/19 — 8,192 addresses — registered in ARIN to e-Tel, LLC itself. Holder and registrant match, so this is the company's own address space, not anyone else's.
• A /19 from a competitive local exchange carrier of this size is the subscriber and service pool: customer access, the company's hosted mail and web offering, and its own infrastructure.
• No IPv6 is announced from this AS.

Notable

• Three observed neighbours. A small number of upstreams against 8,000 addresses is the access-network shape — the addresses go to customers, not to peering relationships. A carrier with a wholesale business would show orders of magnitude more neighbours for the same address count.
• Nothing about the inventory is unusual: one aggregate, one registrant, one RIR. Small regional ISPs are the most common thing in this AS range and this is a clean example of one.

Interesting

• ARIN registered the ASN in 1999 and e-Tel still holds it, which makes this one of the genuinely long-lived operators here rather than a recycled number — a distinction worth checking rather than assuming from the low AS number.

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

Announced prefixes

• 207.162.160.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS23248 Paducah Power System
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Downstream networks

• AS53417 Rudolph's, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS23248 Paducah Power System
• AS53417 Rudolph's, Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Internet exchanges

• Paducah Internet Exchange — Paducah, United States