AS14694 — BVIX-SERVICES

Network type: hosting

AS14694 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The telecommunications regulator runs the territory's internet exchange itself.

What it's used for

• A national regulator's network, supporting an internet exchange. 512 IPv4 addresses across two prefixes, two IPv6 prefixes, and two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle names an exchange rather than the regulator that holds the number.
• 23.136.96.0/24 carries the netname TRC-V4, stating the regulator's initials and the protocol.
• 206.81.110.0/24 carries TRC-VIXPM4, joining the same initials to an exchange abbreviation.
• The IPv6 announcements are 2602:fa5c::/40 and 2620:4e:2000::/48, from two different ranges.

Interesting

• Regulators normally set the rules and leave the equipment to others. On a small island territory there may be nobody else willing to fund an exchange, so the body that licenses the operators also runs the place where they interconnect. It works, and it puts the referee on the pitch.
• An exchange is the single most valuable piece of infrastructure a small territory can build. Without one, traffic between two local operators leaves the island, crosses an ocean and comes back, adding delay to every local connection.
• Naming the protocol in one netname and not the other is the same half-finished convention seen throughout this range. Here the counterpart records were never filed, though IPv6 is announced.
• Two IPv6 ranges from different blocks, one much larger than the other, is what happens when a network obtains space once for itself and once for the exchange it operates.

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

Announced prefixes

• 23.136.96.0/24
• 206.81.110.0/24
• 2602:fa5c::/40
• 2620:4e:2000::/48

Upstream networks

• AS11139 Cable & Wireless Dominica
• AS396357 Digicel BVI Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS11139 Cable & Wireless Dominica
• AS396357 Digicel BVI Limited

Internet exchanges

• British Virgin Islands Internet Exchange Point — Road Town, British Virgin Islands