AS12529 — CHANNELS-STC

AS12529 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A single /23 belonging to a subsidiary of the Saudi national carrier, with a netname written in mixed case.

What it's used for

• Connectivity for a Saudi Telecom subsidiary. 512 addresses in one /23, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The entire inventory is 193.169.190.0/23.
• Its netname is Channels-STC, keeping the capitalisation of the company name rather than the upper case netnames almost always use.
• The registrant is Channels By Saudi Telecom Company (STC) LLC, and the AS handle is CHANNELS-STC.
• First seen in routing data in August 2009, a real date rather than the floor of the archive.

Interesting

• A netname in mixed case is a small act of disobedience against a field that has been shouted in since the 1980s. Nothing enforces upper case; it is convention inherited from when these records were read on terminals that had no lower case to offer.
• A subsidiary with its own AS number and one /23 is a company that wanted to be routed independently of its parent. Five hundred addresses do not require that; being separately addressable from the national carrier does, and it is usually a billing or regulatory boundary rather than a technical one.
• The 2009 first-seen date makes this one of the few networks here whose age can actually be read from the routing data instead of inferred.

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

Announced prefixes

• 193.169.190.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS25019 Saudi Telecom Company JSC

Adjacent networks

• AS25019 Saudi Telecom Company JSC