AS12446 — ESS-NET-AS

AS12446 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The Romanian arm of a satellite operator's media services business.

What it's used for

• Broadcast services connectivity. 512 addresses in two /24s with a single observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 194.102.101.0/24 is netname SES-SERVICES-ROMANIA, and the abuse contact belongs to MX1 C.E.E SA — the media services brand, with the regional suffix for Central and Eastern Europe.
• The AS handle is ESS-NET-AS, which matches neither name.
• First seen in routing data in September 2001.

Interesting

• Satellite operators sell two things: capacity on a spacecraft, and the ground work of getting a television channel onto it. The second business is the one that needs a network — playout, encoding, subtitling and delivery all happen in a building, and this AS is what that building connects through.
• One neighbour and 512 addresses for a facility of that kind is the expected shape. Broadcast contribution and distribution move over dedicated circuits and satellite links, not over the public internet, so the routed footprint stays small no matter how much video passes through.

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

Announced prefixes

• 80.247.129.0/24
• 194.102.101.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS12684 SES ASTRA S.A.

Adjacent networks

• AS12684 SES ASTRA S.A.