AS14841 — AIRWAVE

AS14841 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The netname is the single word CENTRAL, and the one hostname that answered names a town in the desert.

What it's used for

• A fixed wireless ISP's network. 4,096 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• 75.98.240.0/20 carries the netname CENTRAL, registered to the company with a separate abuse contact.
• One of three sampled addresses returned a name: user75-98-251-254.wireless.blythe-ca.airwavebroadband.net.
• The AS first appeared in routing on 2001-01-18.

Interesting

• That hostname carries four separate facts: that the address belongs to a subscriber, what the address is, that it is reached over radio rather than cable, and which town and state the radio sits in. Fixed wireless operators build names this way because their support staff need to know which tower a complaint is coming from before they pick up the phone.
• A netname of one ordinary dictionary word is what happens when the field is filled in as a note to self. It probably distinguished one block from another inside the company at the time, and it distinguishes nothing to anyone outside.
• The town in the hostname sits at the edge of a service area, which is where fixed wireless works best: line of sight, low population density, and nobody else willing to dig.
• Two neighbours for a single block is one more than most operators this size manage, and it is the difference between an outage and a bad afternoon.

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

Announced prefixes

• 75.98.240.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.

Downstream networks

• AS17841 NATIONAL INFORMATION RESOURCES SERVICE

Adjacent networks

• AS5650 Frontier Communications of America, Inc.
• AS17841 NATIONAL INFORMATION RESOURCES SERVICE