AS12684 — SES-LUX-AS SES ASTRA S.A.

Network type: residential

AS12684 announces 102 IPv4 prefixes covering 181,248 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A satellite operator holding address space from three regional registries at once, because its coverage does not respect their boundaries.

What it's used for

• Satellite communications and connectivity. 180,736 addresses in 165 IPv4 prefixes, five IPv6 prefixes, and 198 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The blocks come from three different regional registries: 212.165.160.0/20 and 213.169.112.0/20 are European, 64.110.160.0/19 and 216.236.192.0/19 North American, and 122.201.32.0/20 and 210.5.192.0/20 Asia-Pacific.
• Netnames record two acquired companies: SESA1 for SES Americom, and NSS-NETBLOCK-1, NSS-NETBLOCK-3 and NEWSKIES for New Skies Satellites.
• The operator's own allocations are LU-ASTRANET-20020806 and LU-ASTRANET-20021104.
• Two blocks are named for their function: A2C-CUST-EXT and MPLUSCPE.
• One IPv6 announcement is 2a02::/32, the first /32 inside 2a02::/16.

Interesting

• Regional registries divide the world into five territories and hand out addresses within them. A satellite covers a third of the planet from one position, so its operator has to hold space in every region it can see, and the routing table ends up describing a footprint drawn by orbital mechanics rather than by geography.
• 198 neighbours against 165 prefixes is a transit profile, not an access one. Selling capacity to networks in places where terrestrial fibre is expensive or absent means peering with each of them, and each of those sessions is a country's worth of connectivity.
• CPE is customer premises equipment, which in this context means a dish. The naming convention carriers use for a modem in a living room turns out to apply unchanged to a receiver pointed at geostationary orbit.

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

Announced prefixes

• 63.210.60.0/23
• 64.110.52.0/22
• 64.110.56.0/22
• 64.110.60.0/23
• 64.110.140.0/22
• 64.110.148.0/22
• 64.110.154.0/24
• 64.110.156.0/23
• 64.110.160.0/19
• 66.133.0.0/22
• 66.133.4.0/23
• 66.133.9.0/24
• 66.133.14.0/23
• 66.133.16.0/20
• 66.133.32.0/24
• 66.133.34.0/23
• 66.133.36.0/23
• 66.133.39.0/24
• 66.133.40.0/23
• 66.133.42.0/24
• 66.133.44.0/24
• 66.133.48.0/21
• 66.133.60.0/23
• 66.133.63.0/24
• 66.178.0.0/20
• 66.178.18.0/24
• 66.178.20.0/22
• 66.178.24.0/21
• 66.178.32.0/22
• 66.178.36.0/23
• 66.178.39.0/24
• 66.178.40.0/21
• 66.178.48.0/24
• 66.178.50.0/23
• 66.178.52.0/24
• 66.178.54.0/23
• 66.178.56.0/21
• 66.178.64.0/19
• 66.178.96.0/24
• 66.178.98.0/23
• 66.178.100.0/22
• 66.178.104.0/21
• 66.178.112.0/20
• 67.209.96.0/20
• 80.247.128.0/24
• 80.247.130.0/23
• 80.247.132.0/22
• 80.247.136.0/21
• 80.247.144.0/20
• 103.243.64.0/24
• 103.243.67.0/24
• 122.201.32.0/20
• 148.253.20.0/22
• 148.253.24.0/24
• 148.253.28.0/24
• 162.249.177.0/24
• 162.249.178.0/23
• 170.78.189.0/24
• 171.22.196.0/22
• 185.26.154.0/23
• 190.124.42.0/24
• 200.9.185.0/24
• 200.89.17.0/24
• 200.89.21.0/24
• 201.220.38.0/24
• 209.198.216.0/21
• 209.198.224.0/20
• 209.198.248.0/21
• 210.5.192.0/20
• 210.5.208.0/22
• 210.5.212.0/24
• 210.5.224.0/20
• 210.5.240.0/22
• 210.5.244.0/23
• 210.5.246.0/24
• 210.5.248.0/21
• 212.56.224.0/20
• 212.56.240.0/21
• 212.56.249.0/24
• 212.56.250.0/23
• 212.56.252.0/22
• 212.165.128.0/18
• 212.165.192.0/19
• 212.165.224.0/20
• 212.165.240.0/22
• 212.165.244.0/23
• 212.165.246.0/24
• 212.165.248.0/22
• 212.165.252.0/23
• 212.165.254.0/24
• 213.169.96.0/19
• 216.226.200.0/21
• 216.226.208.0/20
• 216.226.224.0/19
• 216.236.192.0/19
• 216.252.128.0/20
• 216.252.152.0/23
• 216.252.154.0/24
• 216.252.156.0/23
• 216.252.159.0/24

and 4 more.

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS4826 Vocus Connect International Backbone
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.
• AS4230 CLARO S.A.
• AS8346 IDDQD-AS
• AS38195 Superloop
• AS60725 SES ASTRA S.A.
• AS52468 UFINET PANAMA S.A.
• AS6471 ENTEL CHILE S.A.
• AS30990 DJIBOUTI TELECOM S.A.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS12956 TELEFONICA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SL
• AS328884 BLUE ITS BUSINESS SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD
• AS8966 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS4637 Telstra Global
• AS293 ESnet
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.

Downstream networks

• AS60725 SES ASTRA S.A.
• AS30987 Eritrea Telecommunication Service corporation (EriTel)
• AS201554 SES ASTRA S.A.
• AS12446 SES SERVICES ROMANIA S.R.L.
• AS23487 CONECEL
• AS22724 PUNTONET S.A.
• AS139898 Digitec Communications Limited
• AS152655 Digicel (PNG) Ltd
• AS264851 IFOTONCORP S.A.
• AS208756 ALCON TELECOM LTD
• AS10131 Telecom Cook Islands
• AS37460 Orange Centreafrique
• AS329307 ITC Global Communication Technologies Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS4826 Vocus Connect International Backbone
• AS60725 SES ASTRA S.A.
• AS3491 PCCW Global (HK) Ltd.
• AS152655 Digicel (PNG) Ltd
• AS4230 CLARO S.A.
• AS8346 IDDQD-AS
• AS38195 Superloop
• AS8966 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC
• AS30987 Eritrea Telecommunication Service corporation (EriTel)
• AS201554 SES ASTRA S.A.
• AS52468 UFINET PANAMA S.A.
• AS6471 ENTEL CHILE S.A.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS30990 DJIBOUTI TELECOM S.A.
• AS12956 TELEFONICA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SL
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS4637 Telstra Global
• AS328884 BLUE ITS BUSINESS SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD
• AS12446 SES SERVICES ROMANIA S.R.L.
• AS264851 IFOTONCORP S.A.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Routing security

• RPKI: 47 valid, 0 invalid and 135 not-found announcements; 83 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 89% of announcements registered; 378 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-267613, AS-8346-SONATEL, AS-ADJIB, AS-ADJIB, AS-ADJIB, AS-ASTRA-NET, AS-BCS37273, AS-BCS37273, AS-BLUEITS, AS-CPRM, AS-CTBC-CUSTOMERS165, AS-CTBC-TOOLS-10, AS-DURAND1-CUSTOMER, AS-EMBRATELNET, AS-EMIX, AS-FRANCEIX-PAR-LIST, AS-GTTCUST, AS-GTTCUST6, AS-HAWAIIANTEL, AS-HURRICANE, AS-IGW-SET, AS-ITXCHILE, AS-LIQUID-EXT, AS-MEGAPORT-RS-SYD, AS-O3B-DUB-AU.

Internet exchanges

• IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo — São Paulo, Brazil
• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• France-IX Paris — Paris, France
• Equinix Internet Exchange Singapore — Singapore, Singapore
• Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn — Ashburn, United States
• Coresite - Any2 West — Los Angeles, United States
• Any2 California — Los Angeles, United States
• Megaport IX Sydney — Sydney, Australia
• DE-CIX Dusseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany
• DE-CIX Munich — Munich, Germany
• DE-CIX Hamburg — Hamburg, Germany
• Equinix Internet Exchange Miami — Miami, United States
• InterLAN-IX — Bucharest, Romania
• Luxembourg Internet Exchange — Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• IX Australia (Perth WA) — Perth, Australia
• Equinix-LA(former Paix) — Los Angeles, United States