AS12536 — IX Reach International

Network type: hosting

AS12536 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,192 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A French network announcing one /19 under an AS name belonging to a company it bought.

What it's used for

• Network and connectivity services. 8,192 addresses in a single /19, three observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The registry holder is BSO Network Solutions SAS, but the AS handle reads IX Reach International — a different company entirely.
• The one block, 212.121.32.0/19, is netname FR-BSO-19990705, with a BSO Communication NOC as contact.
• That netname spells its 1999 date in full, as 19990705.

Interesting

• 19990705 is worth pausing on. The usual assumption is that four-digit years mark the later convention and two-digit ones the earlier, so a 99 netname is read as older than a 1999 one. This record disproves the rule from inside the same year: the format was a choice made per application, not a period the registry passed through.
• The AS name and the holder disagreeing is an acquisition that never reached the routing records. IX Reach interconnects networks between exchanges; BSO bought that business, and the AS carries the name customers knew while the registry carries the owner's.
• One /19 and three neighbours is a network whose product is reaching other networks rather than holding addresses. The inventory is small because the addresses are not the point.

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

Announced prefixes

• 212.121.32.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS4455 IX Reach Ltd
• AS31216 BSO Network Solutions SAS

Adjacent networks

• AS4455 IX Reach Ltd
• AS31216 BSO Network Solutions SAS