AS16185 — RINGNETT-NORWAY RingNett AS Autonomous System

AS16185 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 13,312 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A cable television company announcing thirteen thousand addresses under a second brand it also owns.

What it's used for

• A cable operator turned provider. Three IPv4 prefixes announced from Norway, no IPv6, thirteen thousand three hundred and twelve addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The holder is the cable television company in capitals, ending in the two letters that mean a joint-stock company here and an autonomous system everywhere else on this page.
• The AS handle is a different brand plus the country name, then that brand again with its own legal form and the words autonomous system spelled out.
• All three netnames use a country code, that second brand and a date, and the dates are spread across sixteen years, one block roughly every eight.
• The administrative contact joins both company names with the local word for and, so the record names the pair explicitly rather than choosing between them.
• Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Cable operators were the first serious competition to telephone incumbents because the coaxial run to the living room was already there. The television name in the registry and the internet name in the routing are the same company at two stages of its life.
• Two brands kept in parallel for two decades is a decision, not an oversight. One sells television to households and the other sells connectivity, and the addresses belong to whichever one signed the form.

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

Announced prefixes

• 82.146.64.0/19
• 185.166.44.0/22
• 217.31.96.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS2116 GLOBALCONNECT AS
• AS2119 Telenor Norge AS

Adjacent networks

• AS2116 GLOBALCONNECT AS
• AS2119 Telenor Norge AS