AS14292 — CSC-VISA

AS14292 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Both the handle and the netname name the document this company exists to process.

What it's used for

• A visa services contractor's network. 768 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The AS handle is CSC-VISA and both blocks carry the netname CSC-VISA-GLOBAL.
• 74.123.52.0/23 and 74.123.54.0/24 sit end to end with no gap between them.
• The registrant field appends a role, naming network operations rather than a person.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Companies that handle visa applications on behalf of governments sit in an unusual position: they collect passport details, biometrics and travel history at scale, without being a government themselves. The network is small, the data is not, and none of it should be reachable from here.
• The netname adding the word global to the handle is the only difference between the two records, which suggests the netname was created for what was expected to become several regional entries and the rest never followed.
• A contiguous run announced as two pieces rather than one costs an extra routing table entry and buys the ability to move half of it independently.
• One upstream for a contractor of this kind is a single point of failure, though a business whose offices sit in dozens of countries would reach the centre over private links rather than through this announcement.

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

Announced prefixes

• 74.123.52.0/23
• 74.123.54.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS29944 Latisys-Ashburn, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS29944 Latisys-Ashburn, LLC