AS14523 — GEA-CONNECT

AS14523 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 74,752 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A municipal power utility announcing a full sixteen-bit block, under one netname, through one neighbour.

What it's used for

• A city-owned utility's broadband network. 74,752 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix, 2607:5640::/32, with one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The bulk is 70.145.0.0/16; the rest are 161.115.32.0/20, 50.20.240.0/21, 208.69.88.0/21 and 199.188.28.0/22.
• Every block that resolved carries the same netname, GEA-29, registered to Greeneville Energy Authority.
• The AS handle is GEA-CONNECT.
• Fifteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• The registry lookup for 161.115.32.0/20 failed.

Interesting

• Utilities that already own poles and conduit have the expensive half of a broadband network before they start, which is why a power authority ends up holding a sixteen-bit block. The address space is the cheap part.
• One netname across four separate blocks, with a number rather than a description after the initials, is a single organisation filing the same way every time. Compared with the ISPs around it in this range, the registry here says almost nothing, and says it consistently.
• One neighbour means the whole network reaches the internet through a single provider. For a municipal utility that is a purchasing decision as much as a routing one.
• Nothing answers a reverse lookup across any of it, so an address here carries no city, no line type and no customer.

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

Announced prefixes

• 50.20.240.0/21
• 70.145.0.0/16
• 161.115.32.0/20
• 199.188.28.0/22
• 208.69.88.0/21
• 2607:5640::/32

Upstream networks

• AS22987 BrightRidge

Adjacent networks

• AS22987 BrightRidge