AS14106 — TAYLOR-ELECTRICCOOPERATIVE-INC

AS14106 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 5,120 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An electric cooperative whose netnames record the moment it started selling fibre.

What it's used for

• A rural electric cooperative's broadband network. 5,120 addresses across four IPv4 prefixes plus 2602:fdae::/36 of IPv6, with two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Two blocks carry TEC-ACCESSFIBER-03 and TEC-ACCESSFIBER-04; a third carries TAYLOR-03.
• 38.22.96.0/21 carries COGENT-A, registered to Cogent Communications, LLC.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2008-01-12.
• Twelve addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Two netname series both reach the same number, one using the cooperative's initials and a fibre brand, the other the plain company name. The brand appeared partway through, and the earlier series kept counting alongside it.
• A /36 of IPv6 is a large allocation for a network announcing five thousand IPv4 addresses. Rural fibre projects funded in the last two decades were expected to plan for the newer protocol from the start, and this one asked for room to do it.
• The largest IPv4 block belongs to the upstream carrier, so the cooperative's subscriber growth outran the space it holds itself and it filled the gap with borrowed addresses.
• An electric utility already owns poles, easements and a service territory. Adding fibre is incremental for them and impossible for anyone else, which is why so many rural networks trace back to a co-op.

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

Announced prefixes

• 38.22.96.0/21
• 70.37.252.0/22
• 199.38.208.0/22
• 216.146.8.0/22
• 2602:fdae::/36

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS13876 FiberLight, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS13876 FiberLight, LLC