AS14362 — VAISALA1

AS14362 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One netname is an allocation reference, the other is a city with the company name stuck to it.

What it's used for

• The network of a company making environmental and weather measurement instruments. 1,024 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with three observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 199.33.72.0/23 and 199.33.75.0/24 carry the netname VAISALA-ALLOC22A.
• 192.101.77.0/24 carries TUCSONVAISALA, a city name and the company name run together with no separator.
• All three blocks are registered to the same entity with no role contact named.
• Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The two netnames were written by people with entirely different ideas of what the field is for. One treats it as a reference to a paperwork item, complete with a letter to distinguish it from a companion allocation. The other treats it as a label for a place, and runs two words together because the field allows no space.
• The city-named block sits in a much older range than the other two, so the site record is the earlier one, and the later allocation was filed by whoever inherited the estate.
• Instruments that report weather, road conditions and air quality send small amounts of data continuously from places with poor connectivity, which is the opposite of the traffic profile a thousand addresses would suggest. What is announced here is the collection end.
• Three upstreams for a network of this size is a sensible amount of redundancy for data nobody wants gaps in.

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

Announced prefixes

• 192.101.77.0/24
• 199.33.72.0/23
• 199.33.75.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS64275 Equinix, Inc.
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.
• AS54825 Packet Host, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS64275 Equinix, Inc.
• AS15830 Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V.
• AS54825 Packet Host, Inc.