AS14902 — -Reserved AS-

AS14902 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One record survived the lookups, and it names a data centre, a customer and an order.

What it's used for

• Market data infrastructure. 1,024 addresses across three IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The lookups for the AS name and for two of the three blocks failed, so nothing is known about them.
• The one record that returned is 74.217.136.0/24, netname INAP-TOR001-ACTIVF-57239, registrant Activ Financial.
• The AS handle field reads -Reserved AS- rather than a mnemonic.
• Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• That single netname carries four pieces of information: the hosting provider, a site code ending in a number, an abbreviation of the customer, and an order reference. Providers who build names this way turn the registry into a searchable index of their own estate, which is useful to them and just as useful to anyone mapping who sits where.
• A site code with a trailing sequence number is the giveaway that the provider has more than one facility in the same city and expects to have more.
• Market data is a business where the physical building matters, because the distance between a trading system and an exchange is measured in fractions of a second. A netname that names the building is a more meaningful fact here than in most industries.
• First seen in routing much later than its neighbours in this range, which fits a number reassigned rather than held since issue.

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

Announced prefixes

• 74.113.224.0/23
• 74.217.136.0/24
• 199.47.167.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS13789 Unitas Global
• AS11854 Unitas Global

Adjacent networks

• AS13789 Unitas Global
• AS11854 Unitas Global