AS12097 — MASSCOM
AS12097 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 58,624 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
MCTV is a cable operator serving Massillon, Canton and the surrounding Stark County area of northeast Ohio, now part of Armstrong.
What it's used for
- Residential and business cable broadband, TV and phone. The sampled reverse DNS is full of cable-63-255.sssnet.com and static-95-254.sssnet.com names, which distinguish the dynamic modem pool from statically assigned business space.
Notable
- The MASSCABLE blocks are registered to Armstrong, the Pennsylvania cable company that acquired MCTV. The netname still says Massillon while the registrant says the buyer.
- The reverse DNS uses sssnet.com rather than any MCTV domain. That was the company's original dial-up and internet brand, and it is still the zone every subscriber address answers under.
- One /22 carries the netname MCTV-GPON-1 — GPON is fibre-to-the-premises equipment, so the operator is running fibre alongside the original coaxial plant.
Interesting
- 58,000 addresses for a single county is generous, and it comes from 24.140.0.0/16. The 24.0.0.0/8 block was handed out to cable operators in the mid-1990s when broadband was new and address space was still cheap, which is why small-town cable companies from that era hold more of it than their subscriber counts would ever justify today.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 24.140.0.0/17
- 24.140.128.0/18
- 24.140.192.0/19
- 199.26.244.0/22
- 199.171.96.0/24
- 2606:fc00::/32
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