AS14432 — GREX

AS14432 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The country's telecoms regulator runs its internet exchange.

What it's used for

• A national internet exchange point in Grenada. 256 IPv4 addresses in a single prefix alongside an IPv6 /48, with one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The AS handle and the netname are both GREX, the exchange's name.
• The registrant is the country's national telecommunications regulatory commission.
• The IPv6 block is 2001:504:35::/48, from the range set aside for exchange point peering fabrics.
• The IPv4 block is 206.126.244.0/24.

Interesting

• The IPv6 prefix is the giveaway. That range is reserved for the shared networks where members of an exchange meet, so the addresses are not a customer network at all; they are the fabric other networks plug into.
• A regulator operating the exchange rather than licensing somebody else to do it is a pattern this sweep has found in another small island territory as well. Where the market is too small to support a commercial exchange, the public body builds one, because keeping local traffic local is cheaper than sending it over a submarine cable and back.
• Exchange fabrics are usually not announced at all, so seeing this one in routing is itself unusual.
• One observed neighbour, on a network whose whole purpose is connecting others to each other.

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

Announced prefixes

• 206.126.244.0/24
• 2001:504:35::/48

Upstream networks

• AS46650 Columbus Communications Grenada Ltd.

Adjacent networks

• AS46650 Columbus Communications Grenada Ltd.