AS14224 — TAMPNET-

AS14224 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A netname that leads with the protocol and the word allocation before naming the company.

What it's used for

• The national arm of an offshore and remote connectivity operator. 1,024 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole footprint is 199.16.208.0/22, carrying the netname V4-ALLOC-TAMPNET-US.
• That netname puts the protocol first, then the kind of record, then the company, then the country.
• The AS handle is truncated to TAMPNET-, cut by a length limit mid-name.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Reading that netname left to right is reading somebody's filing system. Protocol, record type, organisation, country: it sorts sensibly in a list, which is what the person filing it cared about, and it tells a stranger less about the network than the company name alone would.
• Naming the protocol in a record created for address space implies the same operator holds, or expects to hold, the other kind. Nothing of the sort is announced here, so either it lives under a different number or it is still a plan.
• Offshore connectivity means radio and fibre reaching platforms, vessels and remote installations, where the customer is a location rather than a building. A thousand addresses is the shore end of something whose interesting half is at sea.
• First seen in routing on 2007-02-09, well after the numbers around it, so this arm was set up long after the number was issued.

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

Announced prefixes

• 199.16.208.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS1299 Arelion Sweden AB

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Dallas — Dallas, United States