AS14697 — SCS-AS

AS14697 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An alarm monitoring centre, on a block whose first two numbers are one digit from the most familiar private range in existence.

What it's used for

• An alarm monitoring company's network. 512 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole footprint is 198.168.124.0/23, carrying the netname SCSINC.
• That netname runs the initials into the company suffix with nothing between them.
• The AS handle separates the same initials from a suffix with a hyphen.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Blocks beginning this way are misread constantly, because a single digit separates them from the range every home router uses. The result is firewall rules written for private space that accidentally cover somebody's real addresses, and support calls that take an hour to resolve.
• A central station is the place alarm signals arrive when a sensor trips anywhere its customers operate. The traffic is tiny, the availability requirement is absolute, and one upstream for the whole operation is a thinner arrangement than that suggests.
• Running the initials into the corporate suffix produces a netname that reads as one word and sorts nowhere near the company name, which defeats the purpose of having a name in the field.
• No IPv6 and nothing published in reverse DNS is entirely ordinary for this kind of business, and the right amount to disclose about a network that receives alarms.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.168.124.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS14860 SMARTCOM TELEPHONE, LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS14860 SMARTCOM TELEPHONE, LLC