AS16247 — M247-UK Convergence Group (Wireless) Networks Limited

Network type: hosting

AS16247 announces 128 IPv4 prefixes covering 79,872 addresses and 4 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One netname on almost every block, one of them dated to before the web had users.

What it's used for

• A hosting and transit provider's network. One hundred and thirty-five prefixes announced from the United Kingdom, four of them IPv6, eighty thousand one hundred and twenty-eight addresses, through ninety-nine observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The holder field is the brand, then a predecessor's full legal name including a bracketed word for the access technology it was founded on. The AS handle is the brand, the brand again with a legal suffix, and then the words saying it trades as the brand. Between them the current name appears three times and the predecessor's once.
• Almost every sampled block carries one netname: a country code, two letters for the predecessor, the word for a network, and a full date. The dates spread across thirteen years.
• The oldest is dated to the early nineties, well before the rest, which makes it a legacy allocation carried through every change of owner since.
• One block breaks the scheme entirely with a planet and the word for a city.
• All three contacts on every block name the predecessor, spelled out in full each time, with the roles appended after a hyphen.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Ninety-nine neighbours on eighty thousand addresses is a transit business rather than an access network. The value is in who it connects to, and the address count is incidental.

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

Announced prefixes

• 45.141.155.0/24
• 51.179.190.0/23
• 77.243.178.0/23
• 77.243.182.0/24
• 77.243.186.0/24
• 77.243.188.0/24
• 77.243.190.0/24
• 83.143.241.0/24
• 83.143.243.0/24
• 83.143.244.0/24
• 84.39.117.0/24
• 85.199.216.0/21
• 85.199.234.0/23
• 89.238.130.0/24
• 89.238.133.0/24
• 89.238.135.0/24
• 89.238.137.0/24
• 89.238.138.0/24
• 89.238.141.0/24
• 89.238.142.0/24
• 89.238.144.0/23
• 89.238.147.0/24
• 89.238.148.0/23
• 89.238.152.0/24
• 89.238.159.0/24
• 89.238.161.0/24
• 89.238.162.0/24
• 89.238.164.0/24
• 89.238.166.0/24
• 89.238.168.0/24
• 89.238.171.0/24
• 89.238.172.0/23
• 89.238.175.0/24
• 89.238.179.0/24
• 89.238.181.0/24
• 89.238.182.0/24
• 89.238.184.0/24
• 89.238.187.0/24
• 89.238.190.0/24
• 89.249.68.0/22
• 89.249.74.0/23
• 89.249.76.0/22
• 91.102.66.0/23
• 91.102.68.0/22
• 91.232.150.0/23
• 164.39.24.0/22
• 164.39.30.0/23
• 164.39.92.0/23
• 176.10.81.0/24
• 176.10.82.0/24
• 176.10.85.0/24
• 176.10.86.0/24
• 185.14.222.0/23
• 185.57.76.0/24
• 185.91.236.0/23
• 185.94.194.0/23
• 185.198.84.0/22
• 185.201.182.0/24
• 193.108.244.0/22
• 194.79.28.0/23
• 194.145.240.0/23
• 194.187.248.0/24
• 195.12.48.0/23
• 195.234.48.0/24
• 195.242.215.0/24
• 217.64.112.0/24
• 217.64.114.0/23
• 217.64.116.0/22
• 217.64.120.0/23
• 217.64.122.0/24
• 217.64.124.0/24
• 217.113.174.0/24
• 217.138.8.0/23
• 217.138.12.0/23
• 217.138.15.0/24
• 217.138.16.0/21
• 217.138.24.0/22
• 217.138.28.0/24
• 217.138.30.0/23
• 217.138.32.0/20
• 217.138.48.0/22
• 217.138.52.0/24
• 217.138.54.0/23
• 217.138.56.0/21
• 217.138.64.0/22
• 217.138.68.0/23
• 217.138.70.0/24
• 217.138.72.0/21
• 217.138.81.0/24
• 217.138.82.0/23
• 217.138.85.0/24
• 217.138.86.0/23
• 217.138.88.0/24
• 217.138.90.0/23
• 217.138.92.0/23
• 217.138.95.0/24
• 217.138.96.0/22
• 217.138.100.0/23
• 217.138.102.0/24
• 217.138.106.0/23

and 32 more.

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS4657 StarHub Ltd
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS6797 GlobalConnect AB
• AS9002 RETN Limited
• AS25091 IP-Max SA

Downstream networks

• AS42973 Convergence Group (Wireless) Networks Limited
• AS212807 RockIT Networks Limited
• AS206614 Taboola.com ltd
• AS61281 Chess Limited
• AS208150 Eagle Aquila Ltd
• AS201854 Octopus Telecom Ltd

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS42973 Convergence Group (Wireless) Networks Limited
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS50304 Blix Solutions AS
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS4657 StarHub Ltd
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS7575 Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS6797 GlobalConnect AB
• AS212807 RockIT Networks Limited
• AS206614 Taboola.com ltd
• AS208150 Eagle Aquila Ltd
• AS61281 Chess Limited
• AS201854 Octopus Telecom Ltd

Routing security

• RPKI: 3 valid, 0 invalid and 233 not-found announcements; 4 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 89% of announcements registered; 240 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-CWANTIGUA, AS-GBLXEU, AS-INTELSATUS, AS-LONAP-CONNECTED, AS-LONAP-MLP, AS-LONAP-MLP-V6, AS-M247.

Internet exchanges

• LINX LON1 — London, United Kingdom
• London Network Access Point — London, United Kingdom
• LINX Manchester — Manchester, United Kingdom