AS15102 — ASN-WIBAND-1

Network type: residential

AS15102 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 31,232 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Two reverse names answered, and they disagree about the domain, the scheme and where the octets break.

What it's used for

• A fixed wireless provider's network. Thirty-eight IPv4 prefixes announced from Canada, no IPv6, and two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The netnames run WIBAND-NETBLOCK-01 through WIBAND-NETBLOCK-05, a tidy series, except for one block registered to the older company name under NETBLK-WIBAND-WPG-14, which reverses the word order, abbreviates it differently and adds a site code.
• Two of eighteen sampled addresses answered. One is h173-240.187-254.wiband.com, which splits the four octets across a dot so half the address becomes a separate label.
• The other is iphost-64-56-142-254.wpg.wiband.net, a different domain, a different prefix word and the site code as its own label.
• The registrant on every resolved block is the acquiring company except that one.

Interesting

• Two answers producing two conventions is the finding. Both name the same network, both encode the address, and no rule derives one from the other, so nothing can parse this operator's reverse names without knowing both forms exist.
• Breaking an address across a label boundary is the more unusual half. It makes the name sort by the second octet pair, and any tool splitting on dots reads the first two octets as a host and the rest as a domain.

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

Announced prefixes

• 44.135.121.0/24
• 44.190.9.0/24
• 64.56.128.0/19
• 67.215.48.0/20
• 72.13.160.0/19
• 72.172.160.0/20
• 173.240.176.0/20
• 208.82.248.0/21

Upstream networks

• AS6327 Shaw Communications
• AS40473 Xplore Inc.

Downstream networks

• AS40473 Xplore Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS6327 Shaw Communications
• AS40473 Xplore Inc.

Internet exchanges

• YYCIX Calgary Internet Exchange — Calgary, Canada
• Vancouver Internet Exchange — Vancouver, Canada
• Manitoba Internet Exchange — Winnipeg, Canada