AS12975 — PALTEL-AS PALTEL Autonomous System

AS12975 announces 131 IPv4 prefixes covering 543,232 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

372 separate IPv4 announcements from one operator, and not one address that answers to a name.

What it's used for

• The main Palestinian telecommunications operator, carrying fixed and broadband subscribers. 546,048 addresses across 372 IPv4 prefixes, 17 IPv6 prefixes, and 35 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Netnames come in four styles: PS-PALTEL- with dates 19920310, 20000912 and 20080523; PS-PALNET- with dates, registered to a subsidiary; the bare label FTTH; and lowercase dsl-paltel.
• 158.140.64.0/18 carries the 1992 date, among the oldest in the corpus.
• Eighteen addresses were sampled and none returned a name.

Interesting

• 372 prefixes against 35 neighbours is extreme fragmentation. Announcing space in many small pieces rather than a few large ones is how an operator steers traffic across limited upstream capacity, and it is also what happens when address space arrives in scattered fragments over decades rather than as coherent allocations. Both apply here.
• The netnames name the technology instead of the holder in two cases. FTTH is fibre to the home and dsl-paltel is copper broadband, so the registry records which access network each block serves. That is genuinely useful information sitting in a field meant for a label, and almost nobody does it.
• Nothing answers reverse lookups across half a million addresses. For a consumer broadband operator that is a real absence, and it puts this network at the opposite pole from the operators in this range that encode subscriber type into every hostname.
• The subsidiary holding a large share of the blocks is named in the registry but not in the AS.

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

Announced prefixes

• 1.178.112.0/20
• 1.178.128.0/20
• 1.178.208.0/20
• 1.179.40.0/21
• 1.179.72.0/21
• 5.11.40.0/21
• 24.42.64.0/18
• 37.8.0.0/17
• 37.75.208.0/21
• 43.230.140.0/23
• 43.230.142.0/24
• 43.241.156.0/22
• 43.243.24.0/22
• 43.243.32.0/22
• 43.243.92.0/22
• 43.245.156.0/22
• 43.245.208.0/22
• 43.255.108.0/22
• 45.113.108.0/22
• 45.116.248.0/22
• 45.117.4.0/22
• 45.117.40.0/22
• 45.121.104.0/22
• 45.127.176.0/22
• 45.134.202.0/23
• 46.60.64.0/18
• 66.9.0.0/19
• 77.91.128.0/20
• 77.91.144.0/22
• 77.91.152.0/21
• 77.91.160.0/19
• 82.102.192.0/20
• 82.102.208.0/21
• 82.102.218.0/23
• 82.102.220.0/22
• 82.102.224.0/19
• 82.205.0.0/17
• 82.213.0.0/18
• 83.244.0.0/17
• 85.113.96.0/19
• 85.184.240.0/22
• 86.104.188.0/22
• 86.107.16.0/22
• 87.252.108.0/22
• 89.239.32.0/20
• 94.26.112.0/20
• 95.215.104.0/22
• 103.27.144.0/22
• 103.37.84.0/22
• 103.47.68.0/22
• 103.49.208.0/22
• 103.53.4.0/22
• 103.57.108.0/22
• 103.102.252.0/22
• 103.193.132.0/22
• 103.196.120.0/22
• 103.199.176.0/22
• 103.206.36.0/22
• 103.206.108.0/22
• 103.209.204.0/22
• 103.215.4.0/22
• 103.231.104.0/22
• 103.239.96.0/22
• 103.242.60.0/22
• 103.248.36.0/22
• 103.248.244.0/22
• 109.232.162.0/23
• 113.212.64.0/22
• 115.166.128.0/22
• 118.107.180.0/22
• 139.190.128.0/18
• 144.48.236.0/22
• 147.189.176.0/20
• 150.253.32.0/19
• 158.140.16.0/20
• 158.140.64.0/18
• 162.212.180.0/22
• 176.65.0.0/20
• 182.161.60.0/22
• 185.19.220.0/22
• 185.40.192.0/22
• 185.90.242.0/24
• 185.108.24.0/22
• 185.138.132.0/22
• 185.171.132.0/22
• 188.0.96.0/19
• 188.161.0.0/16
• 188.209.208.0/22
• 188.215.100.0/22
• 192.116.4.0/23
• 193.227.236.0/23
• 194.169.121.0/24
• 194.169.122.0/23
• 194.169.188.0/23
• 194.176.98.0/23
• 195.123.112.0/21
• 195.123.160.0/21
• 199.204.215.0/24
• 199.250.128.0/19
• 203.28.19.0/24

and 32 more.

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS8697 Jordan Telecommunications PSC
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS202940 ITC NG ltd

Downstream networks

• AS47253 BCI Telecommunication & Advanced Technology Company
• AS50670 VTEL HOLDINGS LIMITED/JORDAN CO.
• AS15975 Hadara Technologies Private Shareholding Company
• AS29310 JAWWAL
• AS211057 Astra for Telecommunication and IT Services
• AS211466 Ministry of Telecommunication & Digital Economy
• AS51737 Super Link Communications Co. Ltd
• AS20719 Birzeit University
• AS42506 Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU)
• AS208473 Furrera For Telecommunication & Internet Services Co. Private Shareholding Company
• AS199895 Arab American University
• AS14789 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS204626 Modern University College
• AS35385 Al Quds Open University
• AS199979 Palestine Islamic Bank Public shareholding company
• AS208336 BANK OF JORDAN CO. LTD.
• AS201982 Middle East Payment Services Ltd.
• AS59394 The National Bank PLC
• AS48701 Cairo Amman Bank PLC
• AS60302 AL-BANK AL-AHLI AL-URDONI PLC
• AS214920 Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCO)
• AS210476 Moon net for Information Technology LLC
• AS207951 Palestine Investment Bank
• AS48270 iNET Solutions for computer Co.
• AS41346 AL-Quds University

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS50670 VTEL HOLDINGS LIMITED/JORDAN CO.
• AS47253 BCI Telecommunication & Advanced Technology Company
• AS15975 Hadara Technologies Private Shareholding Company
• AS29310 JAWWAL
• AS211057 Astra for Telecommunication and IT Services
• AS8697 Jordan Telecommunications PSC
• AS211466 Ministry of Telecommunication & Digital Economy
• AS51737 Super Link Communications Co. Ltd
• AS20719 Birzeit University
• AS42506 Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU)
• AS208473 Furrera For Telecommunication & Internet Services Co. Private Shareholding Company
• AS42013 Together Communication LTD
• AS199895 Arab American University
• AS14789 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS204626 Modern University College
• AS35385 Al Quds Open University
• AS199979 Palestine Islamic Bank Public shareholding company
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS48701 Cairo Amman Bank PLC
• AS201982 Middle East Payment Services Ltd.
• AS208336 BANK OF JORDAN CO. LTD.
• AS59394 The National Bank PLC
• AS60302 AL-BANK AL-AHLI AL-URDONI PLC

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• DE-CIX Marseille — Marseille, France
• DE-CIX Istanbul — Istanbul, Turkey
• State of Palestine Internet Exchange — Ramallah, Palestine