AS14027 — BEACONWIRELESS

AS14027 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,536 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A netname built by gluing five older record names together, and a retired brand still answering.

What it's used for

• A wireless provider's network in Canada. 1,536 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 69.196.76.0/22 carries the netname BIGPIPE-BIGPIPE-2-BIGPIPE-3-BIGPIPE-4-BIGPIPE-5, registered to Shaw Communications.
• The other two blocks carry BW-350 and are registered to the company itself.
• Three of nine sampled addresses answered, all in the form h69-196-77-0.bigpipeinc.com.
• Only one BGP neighbour was observed.

Interesting

• That netname is five separate registry records merged into one, with each original name kept and joined end to end. Nobody types a name like that; it is what an administrative tool produces when consolidating consecutive blocks, and it preserves the fact that this space arrived in five pieces.
• The reverse names still carry a service brand that the parent carrier retired, under a domain that belongs to neither the current operator nor the current owner. Reverse DNS is the last place a discontinued brand survives, because renaming thousands of generated entries buys nobody anything.
• The leading h is a convention for addresses handed to subscribers, and the address itself follows with dots turned into dashes.
• A single upstream means one carrier relationship holds the whole network up, which for a wireless operator reselling that carrier's space is a business arrangement as much as a routing one.

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

Announced prefixes

• 69.196.76.0/22
• 198.51.231.0/24
• 209.206.127.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS6327 Shaw Communications

Adjacent networks

• AS6327 Shaw Communications

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 3 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 67% of announcements registered; 5 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BIGPIPE, AS-COMCAST-EDIA.