AS13959 — AUTOPHONE-OF-LAREDO

AS13959 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,072 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two brands share one AS, and the reverse names divide the address space cleanly between them.

What it's used for

• A regional access provider. 3,072 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Four blocks are netname AUTOPHONE-NET, registered to Autophone of Laredo.
• The fifth is 216.150.45.0/24, netname APL-45-0-24, registered to LaredoNet.
• Reverse names fall under autophone.net or laredonet.net depending on which block the address sits in.
• Ten of fifteen sampled addresses returned a name.

Interesting

• The split is by block rather than by customer, which means the two brands are two products on one network. Whoever built it kept the boundary at the address level, so an address alone tells you which side of the business a subscriber bought from.
• The company name is a relic. It describes a telephone service that predates the internet business built on top of it, and it survives because the addresses and the AS number were registered under it and never moved.
• The odd netname out compresses the second brand to three letters and then spells the block out in full, which makes it the only record here that can be matched to its addresses without a lookup.

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

Announced prefixes

• 216.150.32.0/22
• 216.150.36.0/24
• 216.150.40.0/22
• 216.150.45.0/24
• 216.150.46.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS265534 TELECOMUNICACIONES DIVERSIFICADAS, S.A. DE C.V.

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS265534 TELECOMUNICACIONES DIVERSIFICADAS, S.A. DE C.V.