AS12833 — GIGAPIX GigaPix - Portuguese Internet eXchange

AS12833 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A national internet exchange, run by the country's research and education foundation.

What it's used for

• The autonomous system of Portugal's internet exchange point. 512 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, eight observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole inventory is 193.236.100.0/23, netname GIGAPIX-PT.
• The block is registered to the national foundation for science and technology, with its security team as a listed contact.
• The AS handle reads GIGAPIX GigaPix - Portuguese Internet eXchange.
• First observed in the routing archive at the earliest date the archive holds.
• Three addresses were sampled and none returned a name.

Interesting

• An exchange is the room where networks meet, and its own AS is almost incidental to what it does. The important addresses at an exchange are the peering LAN, which carries enormous traffic between members and is barely routed at all. A /23 and eight neighbours understates this place by a wide margin.
• The operator is the national research and education network rather than a company. Several European exchanges began this way: the academic network already had the fibre, the building and the neutrality, so it became the meeting point for everyone else.
• The -PT suffix on the netname marks a national facility. Exchange points are named for their country far more often than for their operator, because membership is the product and the country defines who is nearby.

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

Announced prefixes

• 193.236.100.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS1930 Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, I.P.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL

Adjacent networks

• AS1930 Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, I.P.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Internet exchanges

• Gigabit Portuguese Internet Exchange Point — Lisbon, Portugal