AS14549 — US-MARLINK

AS14549 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The letters AS appear in the contact names, meaning something else entirely.

What it's used for

• The national arm of a satellite communications provider. 1,024 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole footprint is 208.86.136.0/22, carrying the netname US-MARLINK-1.
• The record names two roles, an address registry function and an abuse contact, both of which include the parent company's name.
• Those role names contain the letters AS as part of the parent's corporate form, not as a reference to an autonomous system.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• That collision is a small trap for anyone reading registry data with a script. The two letters that mean autonomous system everywhere else in this dataset here mean a limited company under one country's law, and a pattern match looking for AS numbers in text will find them.
• Satellite connectivity to ships, rigs and remote sites is a business where address space is handed to vessels rather than buildings, so a national arm holding one modest block and one upstream is the visible tip of something whose real network is a satellite footprint.
• Filing both an address registry role and an abuse role, rather than one shared contact, is the practice of an operator that expects to hear from other networks regularly.
• No IPv6 announced from a provider serving remote sites is a gap, since the customer terminals are exactly the sort of estate that benefits from having addresses to spare.

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

Announced prefixes

• 208.86.136.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS44431 OmniAccess S.L.

Adjacent networks

• AS44431 OmniAccess S.L.