AS13460 — EARTHCAM

Network type: hosting

AS13460 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A webcam network, where the one address that answered called itself video7.

What it's used for

• A live camera and streaming company's network. 512 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, two IPv6 /48s, and five observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Both /24s are netname EARTHCAM, registered to the company.
• The IPv6 blocks are 2620:130::/48 and 2620:130:2::/48, from the same range with a gap between them.
• 204.107.64.64 answers as video7.earthcam.com.
• First seen in the routing archive on 2011-10-30, an actual date rather than the archive's start.

Interesting

• A numbered video host is the whole business in one name. Cameras stream to servers, servers stream to viewers, and the servers get counted rather than named, because there will be more of them next year and nobody wants to invent adjectives.
• Two /48s with a gap between them is space reserved and then used out of order. A /48 is the standard unit an organisation gets, so holding two means two sites or two purposes, and skipping the one in between means a third was planned.
• Five upstreams for 512 addresses is a lot of connectivity for very little space, which is what streaming needs: the traffic leaving is enormous compared to the number of machines sending it.

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

Announced prefixes

• 192.111.38.0/24
• 204.107.64.0/24
• 2620:130::/48
• 2620:130:2::/48

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS701 Verizon Business
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS701 Verizon Business
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS46887 Crown Castle Fiber LLC
• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC

Internet exchanges

• Digital Realty New York Internet Exchange — New York, United States